§ CAPITOL NOW PLAYING MARION DAVIES Little Old NewYork Z Baily Britis . CAPITOL NOW PLAYING 'MARION DAVIES Little Old NewYork xX YEAR 91; No. 107. KINGSTON, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, MAY 6,- 1024. Whi LAST EDITION CHEQUE WAS _ TOR SERVICE He Rendered As Advisor £0 Home Bask Directors, SR THONAS WHITE Makes An ation of the 0 I nt Last August. . Toromto, May 6.--Sir Thomas fWhite, former minister of tinance, to-day issued a statement in connéc- tion with the story that he had rs 'calved fifteen hundred dolars from the Home Bank of Canada for ser- 'vices rendered as special adviser a fow days before that institution clos- led its doors, in which he told of his efforts to have the bank taken over by other institutions. When these ef- Torts falled he advised the directors of the bank as to the necessary steps to close the institution and appoint & curator. "The cheque referred to in thjs mornings Globe," said Sir Thom#, "'was received by me last Augyst in the usual course of my professional business." Early In August he had been call- ed from 'his Muskoka home to To- ronto- to advise thé directors of the He added that he beligved/the bank could have been saved last summer had there been co-operation between the government and the bankers as- sociation. NO U.S. PRESIDENT HAPPY IN WHITE HOUSE Ex-President Marshall Says Head off\Nation Has Too Many Duties. Youngstown, Ohio, May 6.--A de. claration that he "would not be presi- dent, if they handed it to. me," was made by Thomas R. Marshall, form- er vice-president of the United Stat- es, in an address at the annual ban- quet of the Youngstown Young Men's Christian Association last night, "I never knew a president who Was happy after he got into the whita hBuse," Mr. Marshall said. "Tha president to-day, in addition to the duties of office, is expected to be a leader and keep together a great Political party. It cannot be done." CHINESE PIRATES ARE SHOT T0 DEATH Thirty-eight Convicted Hong Kong for Seizing a Vessel. at Chinese 2 Hong Kong, May 6.--Thirty-eight Chinese, convicted of piracy of the Steam launch Kwongtak, were shot to death to-day by the Chinese au- thorities. Representatives on the Hong Kong police department were Present at the executions. The pirates recently seized the Kwangtak in Hong Kong waters and attempted to escape with their prize. A Chinese customs cruiser pursued, attacked and sank the vessel and | captured the pirates. ee eet. URGE THE BUILDING bank on #s condition. After review- fing the report. of Mr, Calvert, the acting general manager, he advised that the'directors would not be justi- {fied upon the situstioon disclosed in 'continuing the busindss of the bank @s a going concern. He advised fur. ther that they should interview the minister of finance and the Cana- dian Bankers Association. When ef- forts for relief in these directions failed, the bank closed its doors. 8ir Thomas said the cheque waa tmade out in his own name and was deposited in his own bank in the us- ual course of business, gpd put through the clearing house in the usual way. . He further stated that at no tim ibrevious to last August had he had any business or professional trans. ' mctions with the Home Bank. As & matter of fact he had never been in- side Ms doors. Last August he had Seen only Casey Wood, who was di- wector and solictor of the bank, and (Mr. Calvert. He had met none of the other directors. Sir Thomas stated that he had de- sired to testity in his recent evi- dence at Ottawa as to the advice ho @ave the bank, but was unable to do €0 because of a rule which, prohibits @ lawyer from testifying as to the advice he gives a client. He had men- tioned the matter to Mr. Lafleur, #.C., Government counsel, who had concurred in his view. Sir Thomas stated that he woula at once apply to the liquidator and, if necessary, to the courts, for per- mission to testify as to the advice he gave the bank and the circum. commenced in the very OF NEW SUNDAY SCHOOL For Queen Street Methodist Church--Annual Meet- Ing of the Board. The Sunday school board Queen street Methodist church 3 very anxious that the work on the erection of the new Sunday school hall be commenced in the very near future. "On Friday evening last a committee appointed from the Sun- new hall be near future. The attendance at the echool is so large that the present asembly place will not accommodate the crowd, A meeting of the trustee and Sunday School boards will be held in the matter will be dealt with. Ft is un- derstood that the church board has about $18,000 available for & new hall and it is likely that it will be built on ground in the vicinity of the edifice, It was reported at the final meet- ing of the quarterly and official boards held on Friday evening last that the year ending April 30th was & very successful one. The missionary givings were in excess of last year, and there will be a surplus. Dr. C. C. Nash was re-elected sup- erintendent of the Sunday school for the year 1924. -------- Level Crossing Accident. Cobourg, May 6.-- Hamlin Benn, Napanee, suffered a leg fracture and other injuries on Sunday when a mo- tor 'car in which he was riding was struck by a C.N.R. freight train at a level crossing here. He is now in Cobourg hospital, of 4000000 * + BANDIT GIRL AND HUSBAND SENTENCED *P%e00 0 + * -- + New York, May 6.--Mrs. # Celia Cooney, the famous bobb- ed-haired bandit, and her hus- band and partner in crime, Ed- ward Cooney, were sentenced to from ten to twenty years each in prison by County Judge Mar- tin of Brooklyn to-day. * * «> 3 > > * stances under which ft was given. tte02000004000000 ----y "You Said It, Marceline!" = MARCELINE @ALROY. On "The Path of Life" i SOME GIRLS TRIP daintily Through LIFE on : FRENCH HEELS, Others trip--ANYWAY. 5 It seem A SMALL pair Of PRETTY feet Will always have A pair of pretty « So he offers to place her On EASY STREET. Men's PROMISES may be "STEPPING STONES to HIGHER THINGS," or maybe The OPPOSITE. It's a WISE girl who knows Her DESTINATION, And treads LIGHTLY till She REACHES IT. A girl who FALLS For ONE MAN will later Be PICKED UP--by another, On the PATH OF LIFE, Cumien. 4, Pramier Syndicate, | 1 | LIVING HAND | ~~ OF FUTURE Is Invoked by - Counsel For the Church Unionists, 10 CTE A NNSTER Before the Toronto Presbytery to Answer Some Anti-Union Statements, Ottawa, May 6.--"The living hand of the future" was invoked by F. H. Chrysler, K.C., counse] for the op- ponents of the Church Union Bill in the commons private bills committee this morning in defence of the trusts on which church property was held. He was being questioned by T. W. Bird of Nelson, member of the com- mittee as to .whether the Presbyte- rian general assembly had power to Interpret the trusts on which" the lo- cal church property is held, and had replied in the negative. "They are bound by the dead hand of the past then," said Mr. Bird." "And by the living hand of the future," was Mr. Chrysler's reply, which brought applause. from the audience which was in turn reproved by Chairman McGiverin. To Cite Minister; Toronto, May 6.--The presbytery of Toronto, in session today, decided to cite Rev. Stuart Parker, minister of new St. Andrew's churel, this city, to appear before the prespytery to defend statements which are said to have been made by him at an anti- unionist meeting intimating that the presbytery had been manipulated in favor of church union. Mr. Parker came to Toronto from Scotland last fallland recently has been a prominent speaker on behalf of those opposed to church union. A LOSS OF $30,000, In Sale of Home Bank Stock By United Grain Growers. Ottawa, May 6.--The circumstanc- es under which the United Grain 4 V | In Stimulating KEEP TO THE RIGHT.* i Growers of Winnipeg sold approxi- mately 1,000 shares of Home Bank stock to H. J. Daly, T. A. Crerar before McKeown roya commission this. morning. Mr. Crerar explained that the stock was sold in June, 1918, when he was minister of agriculture in the union government. Mr. Daly -had come and asked for proxies on this stock because he thougmt M. J. Ha' ney was trying to get control of the annual meeting. The stock was fin- ally sold to Mr. Daly at a loss of approximately $30,000. At the opening T. A. Reid, coun- sel for the shareholders, drew th attention of the commissioner to an ftem in the papers refering to the payment of fifteen hundred dollars by the bank to Sir Thomas White as a fee for giving advice. He suggested that 8ir Thomas be asked to ex- plain. It was decided that "the former finance minister should be told he could be heard either at Ottawa or Toronto, W. T. Lee, depositors' counsel, then continued his cross-examination of Hon. T. A. Crerar. 4 rT -- : FARMERS SHOULD HELP, Industry By Purchas- ing Canadian Machinery, ' Ottawa, May 6.--Right Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King late last night is- sued the following statement, bear- ing upon one sent out from Toronto earlier in the evening by the Massey- Harris Company, respecting 0 of the Massey- ed tariff changes. Harris Company bears out the con- "The statement contention of the government that ? the tariff changes effected by the pre- sent budget should prove of benefit alike to the farming community and the agricultural implement industry. If, as indicated, the farmers of our country are immediately given the benefit of the lowering of dutles and abolitiop of the sales tax by a cor- responding reduction in the price of implements, it is up to every farmer, in the words of the statement issued by the Massey-Harris Company, 'to stimulate Canadian industry by the purchase of Canadian-made machin- ery,' and I believe they will." Prince Visits Canada's Exhibit. Loudon, May 6.--The Wales spent_yesterday the Canadian Pavilion Empire Exhibition. H 1 wi 1] a4 os News off the Wires In Condensed Form Hon. C.'W. Robertson, Moncton; N. B., has been appointed to the Senate, Fifty per éent. of the seeding has been completed in Alberta province. Premier MacDonald will 'ask his cabinet about the next move with France on the Dawes réport. * Alex. Scott Cruishank, veteran | schoolmaster, who taught in Hamil- ton for fifty-three years, is dead. Chancellor Marx will likely remain in the German elections, and shows that the sentiment favors moderation, Right Hon. Bonar Law had in (mind the naming of Sir Robert Bor- den as chairman of the Delimitation Commission between Northern and Southern. Ireland. Running across the Street near his home, Johnnie, the eighteen months' old son of John T. Scott, Toronto, was knocked down by a street car and crushed to death. The child's mother died five weeks ago. CABINET OF ULSTER MAINTAINS POSITION It Refuses to Appoint a Repre- sentative on the Bound- ary Commission. -- Belfast, May 6.--The Ulster cab- inet has decided to maintain its posi. tion and refuse to appoint a repre- sentative on the commission fo de- Jimit the frontier between the 'north and south; . The cabinet's decision was taken at a meeting umder the chairmanship of Premier Sir James Craig, who re turned yesterday from London. Difficulties are forecast in many quarters in comsequence . of the government's refusal tomo. ify iis attitude on the boundiry question. -- Portrait By Canadian. Brantford, May 6.-- Miss Edith | Kellett, 33 Lincoln Square, Brant- ford, who recently submitted a mini- ature of her sister, Miss Vera, to the Royal Academy, London, Eng., has received word of its acceptance for | hanging at the annual exhibition this year, She is the first Canadian miniature painter to receive such a distinction, the passing being a eri- tical commendation of the merit ot | her work. | S-------- SNOW AID TO FARMERS. + LNG Baskat Farmers in Northern ,an were Jubfrant when! they arose yes- terday morning to find a heavy fall of wet snow beginning, At 10 o'clock the fall wasgpebort- eneral over the area of several A red miles in each direction, most points reporting three t> four inches of snow already fallen and the temperature just above the freez- ing point. With 75 per cent. of the wheat seeded In the Saskatoon district, the snowfall is declared by farmers here to be the best possible ald to start the crop under most favorable condi- py d Central Saskatchewan! tions. Spring plowing, of which there is still a good deal to be done; will be held up for a few days. Summer- 'fallow fis practically all seeded in wheat in this district. ee et-- HON. PETER SMITH'S TRIAL, Likely to be Deferred Till September Sessions, Toronto, May 6.--In the event of Hon. Peter Smith, former provin- cial treasurer, being committed for trial at the police court hearing which commences tomorrow, it is ex- Pected that his counsel will ask fo) parficulars of the charges to pe levelled against "Mr. Smith. It is pro- bably that trial will be deferred until the September sessions. VALUABLES STOLEN IN MOVING DAY RUSH Police Got Busy on Case and the Stolen Property Was "A Moving Day Episode," "Beads" a suitable title for a mystery which : 1s tir was caused in a certain family. It was "moving day," and while the furniture was being carted out of the house, a valuable gold watch and a string of beads were found. to be missing. The watch and had been left on a bed post. © house'was searched but no trace could. be found of the [BECK COMING 10 KINGSTON Chairman of Hydro Commission to be flere Thursday. N\ 10 SPEAK IN EVENING In Memorial Hall on the Power Question---Guest of Util 'ties Commission. Sir Adam Beck, chairman of the Ontario Hydro-Electric Commission, will pay a visit to Kingston on Thursday. He will, arrive in the city at 2 p.m, and will be given a busy time by the members of the Public Utilities Commission. At 5.15 o'clock he will officiate at the formal open- ing of the new offices of the utilities commission, on Queen street; ot 6.15 | p.m. he will be the guest of the Util ties Commission, at a banquet, and at 8.15 p.m. he will speak af a public meeting, to be held in Memor'al Hall, when he will deliver an ad- dress, dealing with the power ques- tion, as it affects Kingston, and eust- ern Ontario. Several weeks ago, when members of the local commission were in To- ronto, interviewing Sir Adam Back regarding a reduction in hydro rates and-other matters. of importance, thy chairman, R. N. F. McFarlane, ex- tended an invitation to Sir Adam lo visit Kingston and speak on the pow- - SIR ADAM BECK er question. Sir Adam accepted the inyitation, but could not give the date of his'visit, owing to pressure of, business. The commission kept 1. touch with the power chief, how ever, with the result that on Monday afternoon, a message was received from him, in which he stated.that he would come to Kingston on Thurs- day afternoon. The announcement of Sir Adam's visit was made known at the reg- ular meeting of the commission held on Mofiday afternoon, and the mem- bers are now making preparations for the programme to be carried out. Members-of the Ontario Hydro Commission will also be invited to come to Kingston on Thursday, and it is also hoped to have Hon. W. F. Nickle, attorney-general, present fo: the "doings." x It is expected that Sir Adam will have something of vital importance to.say regarding power in Eastern Ontario, and for this reason snvita- tions will be extended to the mayors of Belleville, Brockville, Prescott, Gananoque and Napanee, to attend. During his stay in the city, Bir Adam Beck will-be the guest. of Dr. Edward Ryan, of Rockwood Hospi- tal.. \ HL ch-- Backs British Attack on BilibSards London, May 6.--8peaking at the dinner of the Royal Academy the Prince of Wales expressed his satis- faction at the success of the cam- paign to rid the country of unsightly billboards. : ' "Last year I made some tentative suggestions about the art of bill boards. in our great of people seemed to suspect me 'of wanting to cover the whole of our countryside," he sald. |"That, hardly need say, was the very te. verse of what I intended'fo convey. Nobody. deplores. more sincetely such blots on the landscape than I do, and I heartily congratulate those public- spirited people who are trying to have them removed on the success of their efforts." * ------ Hire Pupils During Recess, Marmora, May 6.--A novel idea is being carried out in the public school here. Instead of the board hiring a man to pile the year's supply ot Prince towns and a lot | the Canadian Govern COME UNDER GOVERNMENT. 16 Manitoba Schools Taken Over Because of Debts. Winnipeg, May 6.--Administra- | tion of sixteen schools in the Birch | River municipality of the Swan Ri- ver district has been assumed by the Manitoba government on the recom- mendation of Hon. Charles R. Can- non, minister of education. This is the first district to be tak- en over by the government, which in this instance was rendered neces- sary owing to heavy indebtedness. Discussing sha. action of his de- partment, the minister of education sald that the only way that the schools could be kept open was by government guarantee to meet the overdue financial obligations of the district. : Approval of the action has been given by order-in-council. . ------------ GRAIN SHIPMENTS. LESS. Weék-End Clearings at Fort William 2,231,000 Bushels. Fort William, May 6.--The two days over the week-end saw a slight decrease in the grain shipments, the total quantity shipped Sunday and yesterday being 2,231,000 bushels. On Sunday the Mathewson was the only grain boat to clear with 360,- 000 bushels of wheat and yesterday the biggest cargo went down to Buf- falo on the United States freighter, Pontiac, 405,000 bushels. Ten ves- sels were under the spouts yester- day and two were discharging coke at the docks of the Canada Iron Cor- poration, . -------------- HON. A. B. HUDSON SPEAKS ON BUDGET Winnipeg Member Endorses It as a Movement in the Right Direction. Ottawa, May 6.--Debate on the budget was resumed in the House of Commons yesterday afternoon by Hon. A. B. Hudson (Liberal, Win- nipeg South), who said that the Proper way to judge the budget was from the point of view of whether or Dot it was consistent with the will of Liberals had gone to the electors pledged to the 1918 Liberal plat- form of tariff reduction. The Pros 8ressives had been pledged to stiil further tariff reductions. The voters had voted less than a million for the Conservative high tariff policy and more than two millions for the com- g Bined 'Liberal and Progressive low "policies." Even allowing for those Liberals who had, as the mein- ber for St. Lawrence and St. George (Herbert Marler), voted for the pro. tection, there was still a big ma- jority in favor of tarift reduction. He thought, therefore, that the Government would have been dere- lict to its duty if it had not proceeq- ed along the lines taken in this bua get. Rarely was a Government able to fulfil all its pre-election promises, but fulfillment should be made of all possible promises. Mr. Hudson quoted from the Ham- ilton Spectator, published two weeks after thé budget speech, to the ef- fect that new industries were coming into Hamilton, some from the United States, and that there had not been in years such an optimistic outlook for industrial development of that city. Mr. Hudson Loncluded by an- nouncing that he would vote for the budget "as a movement in the right direction." W. G. Raymond, Brantford, de- serts the Liverals on the implement cuts, and will vote against the bud- get. : S---- ANOTHER PARTY OF HEBRIDEANS ARRIVES Band of 200 Sturdy Scotsmen Reach Quebec on the Steamer Marioch. \ lrmmete Quebec, May 6.--The first con- signment of Hebrideans from the Is- land of Stornoway 'to arrive in Can- ada via the St. Lawrence river route during the present Season of naviga- tion, were disembarked here yester. day with the arrival of the C.P.8. Marloch from: Glasgow and, Storno. way. Ra There were upwards of 200. in the rty, and it was conceded by all resent that they were the finest and sturdiest crowd of men thet 'have landed here during the present year. Indeed, ' ome immigration official was heard to remark taf they troubles would be eliminated to a great extent If all the third-class passengers that passed through their hands possessed such a fine phy- sique as these hardy men from the north country. ------ Canadian Is eo + ---- ¥ Boston, May §.----Ray Cass, whom eriment sought to have extradited to Nova Scotia trial on piracy cha: 'was dischars. od by United. Wheeler - the people. At the last election the | R 0. SWEEZEY TALKS POWER Gives Splendid Address Regard- ing St. Lawreace Project, EDUCATE. LEGISLATORS. To Advan es of tie Scheme And ges : Then Get Down to Business. A large and enthusias of the Kiwanis club, Rotary club, and city counei] and board of trade as- sembled for dinner at the Frontenag Hotel on Monday evening to hear R. 0. Sweezey, B.Sc., Montreal, speak on the St. Lawrence Power and Waterways, a-subject so full of vital importance to Kingston and to Can- ada at large, During the first part of the evening the usual fun and songs prevailed, Jack Elder giving & specially good rendering of a famous Scotch song in which all Joined in at the chorus. : In his opening remarks, Mr. Swee- Zey expressed his pleasure in being Present ut such a splendid gather- Ing, His subject "St. Lawrence Power and Waterways" should inter- est the people of Kingston very much. - The St. Lawrence was the greatest system in the world, be- cause if drained the Great Lakes, the greatest inland water system known, with a drainage of some three hun- dred thousand square miles, The result' of this was that the lakes act 4s settling basins and hold back the water, which would otherwise cause floods when the flow is ten to one, as compared with the St. Lawrence flow of two to one, or three hundred and thirty-five thousand cubic feet at maximum, with "one hundred and eighty thousand cubic feet at its midimum height, " tic gathering If nature had given us this, it wag up to us to take advantage of it, and develop our power in the East. There Were two reasons Br the non-de- velopment of this vast power scheme, one being the enormous cost, the other the international aspect. The great difficulty was in the matter of arranging the matter suitably tween all concerned. 'ever: body realized that something should be done, many had very foggy ideas as to what that something should be, and very few really ufiderstood the problems connected with the pro- Ject, the power and the necessary. financial outlay. Mr. Bweesey gave the physical features of this power development. The difference in level between Montreal and Morrisburg was three hundred feet, Thres agencies could undertake the work, the Federal government, the Hydro- Electric Power Commission and a private company, and the develop- ment should take plage in tour dif- ferent stages. The first stage was at { Morrisburg where there would be fa twenty-seven foot head of water, Such a dam would regulate the out- flow from Lake Ontario, maintain a better level in 'the harbours both in the ports bordering the lakes, and at Montreal, having the effect of a minimum of two hundred and fifty thousand "ubic feet per second. This first development at Morrisburg would result in gix hundred and fitty thousand horse power. The second dam could be built at Corn- wall ¥hic¥ would double the power of the first; the third was as far down as Lake St. Francis and Lake ~ St. Louis, resulting in two million horse power, of which the Americans would get ome million and Canada the other half; the fourth took In the Lachine rapids with its thirty three feet of a head. . 2, -- A Gigante Project. This power project was gigantie from an engineering standpoint, and much effort had been made to delve into 1, and ascertain the cost and the value. In the Federal House there is. a tendency to put a damper on the scheme, chiefly because nome - of them knew anything about it, and no one had made the whole thi : clear. Obviously the first thing to en. ter | has stated that it should be built in five stages, and at a evst of ong bi) . lion two hundred and frty million pdoliars. Another estimate took 'the 'cost to be in the neighborhood of five hungred million, The discrep ancy e; Mr. Sweesey pointed out, was too wide, and undoubtedly the American included numerous items for expenses made in the past. for to do in the true Canadian way, big swoop, Itke we ha: matter of