Daily British Whig (1850), 25 Aug 1924, p. 1

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MIDNIGHT The Daily British Whi KINGSTON, ONTARIO, MONDAY, AUGUST 25,1024, CED T0 CONE DOW gt of Cape Farewell, Green- Jand, And Drifted For One board U.S. Cruiser Richmond, of Cape Farewell, Greenland, 95,--Lieut. Locatelli, the Ita- ¥iator, and round-the-world ,, who disappeared shortly 'after ng Iceland for Greenland last y with the United States € has been found. He was res- 4 at 11.35 o'clock last night by United States cruiser Richmond miles east of Cape Farewell, The an filer and his companions uninjured, although worn out 'fatigue. Motor trouble had fore- Loecatelll to come down on the during the flight o} Thursday. was unable to bring his plane »' the air agdin and drifted tor hundred miles. | Locatelli asked t his airplane be destroyed, and wish was complied with. sn, WELCOME BY CANADA. --rer Ale Forge Director Is Leaving for : Nova Scotia. Ottawa, Aug. 25.--Canada will be 'officially represented on the arrival of the American 'around-the-world fiers in Pictou, N.8., within the next days. Group Captain J. F. Scott, M.C., tor of the Roysl Canadian Air pe, will leave for Pictou, N.8., welcome' On behalf of the Cana- } Government the American ," The Canadian, Goverpment made adequate preparations to care of them, Lieut, Wade, who lost his machine ghort time ago, will continue the sht trom Pictou with Lieut. Smith Lieut. Neilson. Hon, E. M. Macdonaid, Min- of National Defence, has in- éted Gro@ip Captain Scott to ex- every facility possible to erican fliers. Direct System, Paris, Aug. 26.--The Senats on rday adopted a bill re-3stablish- the direct representation rys- of electing members of the 'chamber of deputies. By thls sys- tem each deputy will be elected by _own separate constituency in- ad of by groups. It is expected the chamber will approve the me- thod ENGLAND'S HANGMAN "SERIOUSLY WOUNDED | john Ellis Shoots Himself-- "Had Brooded Over Execut- ing So Many People. -------- © London, Aug. 25.--John Ellis, 'England's famous hangman, "who lost his nerve and relin- 'guished his sinister occupation Jast year after executing Mrs. Edith Thompson, the last wo- man who suffered the death pen- alty in Great Britain, was found this morning at his home {seriously wounded, with a re- | yolver lying beside him. Ellis, who isolated himself socially dur nearly the quarter of a 3 ury he served as public exe- er, was said to have brooded over the fact that he » {had sent to their doom more condemned murderers than any other man who had ever held "the hangman's office. 2 "You 1 020 PPPOE EET IES ® * 40.YEAR EXODUS DONE * BY AUTO IN FOUR HOURS Jerusalem, Aug. 25.--A small automobile did in four hours, yesterday, what it required the Israelites forty years to accoms plish in their exodus from Egypt to Palestine, This was crossing the Sinai Desert, the wild and barren region between the Gult of Suez and the Gulf of Akabah, about 130 miles. SHRP IPLE PETRIE * * * * * * + * * * * + * 0PSPPPS RPO 499900 WINDSOR CARS PA ON FIVE-CENT FARE Annual Report for 1923 Shows Good Surplus and In- creased Traffic. -------- Windsor, Aug. 25.--Operation of Windsor's Hydro Electric street car system is now on a paying basis with a five-cent fare. The annual report of the system submitted Saturday by WwW. R. Robertson, general superin- tendent of the Ontario Hydro Elec- tric Railways shows that the lines serving Windsor and adjoining muni- cipalities last year carried 12,318.- 000 passengers, operated 1,772,766 car miles and netted a revenue of $688,416. ------------ Shoe Exports Show Large Increase in Year ------ Ottawa, Aug. 25.--Canada export- ed in the month of July this year 24,924 pairs of boots and choes as compared with 9,646 in July last year. During the twelve months ending July, 1924, 132,163 pairs were exported and during the twelve months ending July, 1923, only 54,- 618 pairs were exported. ONTARIO TEACHERS DESCEND INTO MINE Pay Visit to Sudbury and the _ International Nickel Com-= pany at Creighton. -- Sudbury, Aug. 25.--Ontario teachers 'reached here before 7 a.m, today and were met on the station platform by a deputation from the business girls club un- der the guidance of the presi- dent, Miss Guybrough, and es- corte "to breakfast, After studying the geography of Sud- bury they proceeded by train, via Copper Cliff, to Creighton, where they were welcomed most cordially by officials of the International Nickel Company and shown the working of the 'huge plant above ground and then descended into the mine. Perfect weather added greatly to the enjoyment of this lesson in nickel mining. HERRESHOFF HAS SOLD OUT. Gives Sir Thomas Lipton a Better Chance for America's Cup. New York, Aug. 25.--Great in- terest has been aroused in yachting circlés here by cable reports that Sir Thomas Lipton will challenge again for the America's Cup. In connection with the reports it is being recalled that Sir Thomas had stated publicly a number of times he could never win the cup while Nat Herreshoff designed the U. 8. Cup defenders. Herreshoff had desigped the boats that defeated the various Shamrock entries of Sir Thomas, He recently sold his ship- yards. ------------------ Killed in Collision. Montreal, Aug. 256.--Gashed by glass from the windshield when the automobile driven by his father col- lided with another car in the east end of the city Friday night, Pene Demers, aged 10, of this city, was instantly killed. A Except for nervous shock, his father escaped unhurt. The vehicles met in a head-on col- lision and a piece of glass penetrat- ed young Demers' neck. Said It, Marceline!" By MARCELINE #ALROY On "Taking a Lady's Hand" © When a PRETTY WOMAN Holds out a DAINTY HAND Forgaued BBs WANTS something and "It she Is pretty ENOUGH He MAY risk » gift "A FLIRT, when be takes THEN she will probably pay | Twice as many visits to Her manicurist, and ever after, When an interesting man Is near, she is liable to leave Her bands lying idly on the Arms of chairs where they can be Conveniently PICKED UP. MEN who kiss EASILY hold Their treasures LIGHTLY, But FEW WOMEN stop to think That BEFORE a thing can Be DROPPED, it is always HELD, still ALL women are Optimists in LOVE--they can PLEADS FOR BOYS' LIVES Chicago Lawyer Goes Back Of the Murder Itself. THE PHANTASY GREW With Richard Loeb of Being Able to Produce *'A Perfect - " Crime. Chicago, Aug. 25.--Character ana- 'ysis based on heredity environment was the theme of Clarence Darrow today as he' pleaded anew before Judge Caverly for the lives of Rich- coset PIIIELIOOSS eee Pe + . # ANTI.KLAN WOMAN *| + GETS BIG MAJORITY + Temple, Texas, Aug. 25.~-- Additional returns today swell- ed. the plurality accorded Mrs, Miriam A. Ferguson, anti-Klan candidate for democratic nomi- pation for governor in Satur- day's run-off primary in Texas. It was estimated at her head- quarters that her majority over Judge Felix Robertson, Klan candidate, would eventually to- tal 100,000. * + + * * + * + + + * + < * + * * * * > * * > * * > * cette Rb OPIEIIORIOIOS To Be Agent-General Under the Dawes Plan RE Paris, Aug. 25.--Owen D. Young, of New York, is to serve temporarily as agent-general under the Dawes reparation plan, probably for a per: fod of three months, during which time he will get a staff well orga- ard Loeb and Nashawiieopold, Jr., kidnappers and muasdesers of Rob- ert Franks. "The weird, mad act" bar went back of the crime itself to trace from childhood influences, which surrounded his clients, He spoke of "Dickie" Loeb and said that the phantasy of being able to produce a 'perfect crime" grew na- turally from the youth's habitual reading of detective stories, super- imposed upon the brain, forced like a hot house plant to absorb book after book. "His parents might have done bet- ter if they had not had any money," he declared. 'Nature is strong and pitiless. She works in her own mysterious way and we haven't much to do with ourselves. Let us be honest with each other. We all known that youth is without thought dnd without care. Congressmen, judges, lawyers, yes, even states' at- torneys, have in youth doce some- thing wrong. That they were not caught is their own good fortune." U.S. Traffic Policeman Is Caught With Ale Rochester, N.Y, Aug. 25. --Arrest- ed as he piloted his crippled motor boat into Charlotte Harbor with 64 cases of Canadian ale aboard, Fred- erick A. Fricke, a traffic policeman here, is charged with illegaily intro- ducing forbidden merchandise into the United States. The motor boat parrowly escaped collision with two steamers in Lake Ontario, because the steering apparatus was out of ordér. Fricke sald he was returning trom a vacation in Canada where he met a bootlegger who suggested he take back a few cases of ale for his own use. Unveiled Celtic Cross Where Collins Was Shot -- Dublin, Aug., 25.--In the presence of President Cosgrave, many senators and a large body of troops, General C. Duffy, Commander-in-Chief of the Free State forces, unveiled a celtic cross which has been erected at the foot of the hill where Michael Col- lins was shot and killed in 1922. The impressive ceremony conclud- ed with the sounding of "taps" by a bugler., Many wreaths were de- posited at the foot of the cross by re- latives of Collins, members of the army and others. . ---- STRESEMANN'S ORATORY. Will Have Big Effect Upon the Ger- man Reichstag. Berlin, Aug. 25.--Saturday was Pr. Stresemann's day. With Chan- cellor Marx and Finance Minister Lu- ther his fellow members of the Ger- man delegation to the London con- ference, the German foreign minister faced a Reichstag seething with hos- tility, and by sheer aggressiveness and brilliant oratory contributed tremendously toward the (Jerman Government's chances of obtaining the Reichstag's support of the Lon- don pact. ------------------ A Gruesome Discovery. New York, Aug. 256A tin box in a Greenwich village gave up the body of aged Aaron Graff, wealthy manufacturer, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and furnished the homicide squad another gruesome murder mystery to solve. . Grag, missing since August" 1st, been hacked off and crammed, with the rest of his body, into a galva- niged container four feet long. Blan- kets had been stuffed around him, the lid of the box had been sealed with shellac, and over all kad been poured a thick coating of wax and plaster-of-Paris. ; S ------------ Big Packing Concern Falls. Trenton, N. J., Aug.' 25.--Wilson and Company, one of the large pack- ing stablishments in' the United 'States, has been placed in the hands it is alleged that the ndebted . to various banking for nearly $30,000,000. of the youths was mentioned only| incidentally as the veteran of the| had been strangled. His limbs had Fpr nized and break in his permanent successor, In this work he will be aided by Rufus C. Dawes, brother of General Dawes, and Henry M. Robinson, who, like Mr. Young, serv- ed on the expert committee which drew up the plans. The reparation committee is expected to meet tomor- row to act formally on the appoint- ments. KIND OF PUBLICITY THAT CANADA NEEDS Is to Send to Old Land Those From There Who Have Succeeded Here. Ottawa, Aug. 25.--The kind of publicity Canada needs in Great Britain is to send men and women there who came ori- ginally from the Old Land and have made good, and are happy and contented in Canada, to tell of their experience and how to go about emigrating, in the opinion of Mrs. Charles H. Thorburn, of Ottawa, honorary commissioner on behalf of Can- ada to the British Empire Exhi- bition, and Canadian Govern- ment delegate at the Interna- tional Labor conference, Gene- va, who returned home last night. Mrs. Thorburn is making a report to the minister or on the labor comférénce: fev wag very much impressed with the charms of her colleague at the Geneva conference and with her capability. SEE PR FRPP CSOD + ¢ ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN : AIRSHIP SERVICE + Sydney, Australia, Aug. 28. # --S8ir Keith Smith, noted Aus- & tralian aviator, who has arriv- # ed here to supervise Australian # undertakings at Vickers Limit- # ed, the big British engineering # firm, says he intends to investi- & gate the possibilities of an alr 4 service between England and & Australia, with a view to laying «+ foundations for such service. J CPP PL ELITE LORDS DROVE FROM DETROL IN TWENTY HO Wallace--Three Hours for Sleep and Meals. From Detroit, Mich., to Kingston in a Ford sedan in twenty hours is the record established by Mr. Fred Wallace of Detroit, who is the guest of his sister, Mrs. G, H. Williamson, Brock street. 'Mr. Wallace, with his sisters, Mrs. Pulcifer and Miss Har- riett Wallace, and Miss Doris Sted- man, left Detroit on Saturday after- noon at 5.30 o'clock standard time, and reached Kingston at 4.15 p.m. standard time Sunday. Mr. Wallace drove right through with tne excep- tion of two hours' stoppage for sleep and one hour for m distance of over 450 miles was cov- ered im that time, as quite a pum- ber of long detours had to be made. steady running it is stated that this feat has not been equalled. i R. E. Beattie, member of the Van- couver board of harbor commission- ers has resigned the general super i{ntendency of the harbor owing ill-health. . ; Newsy Bits From To-day's Classified Ads. ¥ Steer directly to the classified col- umns when you want a good used car, ------------ The mills of the Chicoutimi Pulp and Paper Company, which have been closed since the month of Feb- Never imagine a maa EVER Wanting to let THEM GO. kely to suppress Look aad see. Is that house you want fo buy advertised in the classified section ? Where there's a classified section : WITHOUT WORD | Most of tant, Prof. Geo A in the range of possibility that | trained eye during MARS PASSED Best Condition in Years For Observing Fiery Planet. 11S THO MOONS SEEN Vegetation Apparent And Sea- sons Similar to Ours---Hu- man Life Is Scouted. Yerkes Observatory, Williams Bay, Wis., Aug. 25.--Seen through the largest refracting telescope dn the world here, the planet Mars looked like a small orange with a patch of mold on it, shortly after mid- pight Sunday morning. Tke swash- buckling planet was closer to earth! than it has been for 120 years--34,- 37,000 miles. And it will be al- most 120 years again before it dips | once more into such close view. | Luckily, atmospheric conditions | were almost perfect for observation early yesterday morning. The sky above Lake Geneva Was clear and: splashed with stars. Mars itself shone t in the south like a great purning dia- mond. "This is the best nignt for ab-| serving Mars we have had in twenty-| four years," sald Engineer Frank R. | Sullivan, of the observatory of Chi- cago. "Both satellites are clearly visible--an extremely rare bit of luck." -- Mars Has Two Moons. For Mars has its moons--two of them. They shone in the great lens like chips of star dust. They play tag with their father planet with such dizzy speed that full moon, half moon and crescent moon--two each --appear on Mars in the space of an earthly 24 hours. The smallest one, «dread," is only twelve miles in dia- meter; the other, called "fear," sbout 20. "Fear {s about 12,000 miles from the edge of Mars, and traverses its tiny orbit cnce every seven hours. Prof. Edwin D. Frost, director of the observatory, gaid that a third moon might possibly be discovered. e his first assis glued to the lens heavens some 35,000,- 000 miles away, but the third satel- lite did not appear. Excellent pho- tographs were taken of the satel- lites. For a month, Prof, Frost is to direct nightly observations. The tube of the Yerkes telescope weighs six tons. It is sixty-twb feet long and it is so delicately balanced that a baby's hand could swing it around. The dome Was dark. With Professor Fros and Profesaor Van known @as kept his eyes searching the Biesbroeck, were Engineer Sullivan. | Professor Storrs Barrett, Professor | W. H. Garrett, a few invited friends and newspapermen. { Professor Van Blesbroeck Was | crouched before the Jens, joiting down notes, alert on his target 38,- 600,000 miles away. To his eye Mars looked like a ruddy silver dollar or an orange. At one tip was 2 spot of tarnish. "A snow field," explained Frost. It appeared as he talked that the Martian seasons correspond quite closely to seasons on this earth, and that the Polar regions at this time of the year are covered with a great peninsula of ice. "It looks like the North Pole" said Prof. Frost. "Really however, | it's the southern extremity. The lens inverts the image." Then there were Mars chasing each other their glowing father. ------ pife May Dxist There. Professor Frost presently told his audience a few things aboat Mars. "1 hate to disappeint you," he smiled, "but really I expect nothing of consequence to come of this ob- gervation. I am, though, interested {n the possibility of a new satellite end its discovery." He said that it was entirely with- lite the the tiny moons of around of some nature might exist on 'neighboring planet. "This by no means indicates," he explained, "that 1 think there is in- teiligent human lite on Mars. Far trom it. But I do believe it entirely possible that some gort of primitive vegetable life does exist." + He scouted as absolutely ridicu- lous any possibility of inter-com- munication between the pianeis by means of radio or other devices. And he declared that the so-called canils, 'which were not visible to the ua- the observation, were not "canals" in the usual sense, but "channels of twenty miles wide and thousands of miles loBg." The red coloring of Mars, sald Professor Frost, comes not from matter, but most jasper. sald, are very possibly vegetable in origin. ee ------ _ Lightning strikes binder in Ox ford county, killing three horses, ifn time, but the Afghan the struggle is expected to be Serve. there's a classified ad way of get- | month ago. CIPI EEF PE SOOO AS PROFITABLE CROP + AS THAT OF 1923 ¢ -- + Toronto, Aug. 25. -- The + western harvest may lack in * bulk but will be as profitable as +* the 1923 crop, says t + Lyon, Globe editor, in a spe ial + despatch trom Edmonton, Alta. + 4 + Pre terre +e tere ed PEPER PFRITEY "MYSTERY" SIGNALS EASILY EXPLAINED U.S. Radio Beacons Sent Ser- jes of Dashes Heard at B.C. Station. Victoria, B.C., Aug. 25.--So0-called mysterious signals picked up by Brit- ish Columbia wireless stations re- cently are not mysterious al all, ac- cording to E. J. Haughton, superin- tendent of the Dominion Government wireless service. The department is somewhat an- noyed that any of their staff should make publi¢ anpouncements of any nature concerning the operation of its stations of what transpires there- in," Superintendent Haughton said. "The signals reported to be so 'mys- terious' were merely those sent from U.S. radio beacons on their new tonic train transmitter. Both Swiftsure and Columbia River light vessels Fave series of dashes as their char- acteristics, and it is these signals which were heard at Polat Grey." POLICE MAKE SEARCH FOR MISSING PRIEST College Supervisors Fear That He May Have Met With Foul Play. Sandwich, Aug. 25.---Unless Rev. Father Joseph Morrissey, instructor in astrocomy at Sandwich College, is working somewhere, probably on a farm in the vicinity of Toronto, nis supervisors at the coliege be- lieve he may have mel with foul play over a we>k ago. Father Morrissey, who is one of the most brilliant priests of the Badilian community, disappear- ed from the college, following a nervous breakdown. A search conducted by the provin:ial po- lice through western Oatario lice through Michigan has Yail- . ed to reveal his whereabouts. rt Northumberland, N:B., By-election Oct. '7th ---- Ottawa, Aug. 25.--The by-election to fill the vacant seat in the Federal House for Northumberland, N.B., will be held on October 7tn. Writs were issued Saturday by Chief Elec- toral Officer O. M. Bigga:, calling for nominations on September 23rd and the election on October 7th. The seat was made vacari by the death of John Morrissey about a Mr. Morrissey repre- sented that constituency in the Lib- eral interests since the general elec- tion of 1921. FIVE LONDON GIRLS "FALL T0 COME HOME After Embarking on a Stage Career--A Wide Search Has Begune ---- London, Ont., Aug. 25. --Chi- cago police have been asked to Jocate five London girls wao left 'pearly a year ago to embark on a career behind the footlights, but who failed to return to their parents ai the time appointed. This step has been taken foilow= ing a visit to the U.S. city on the part of one girl's father, who made an unsuccessful endeavor to locate them, although mail being received at their homes carries a Chicago postmark. The girls, all musical, recelv- ed their early training in Ton- don and left this city in charge of a chaperon to make fame for themselves and city. In June they were to have re- turned home, but when days passed into weeks without their return the parents became much worried. Their worry since then hag been all the more profound, with no date yet as to when they will return. All "teen age girls, their mysterious where- abouts is causing much anxiety. Police in all the prinicpal ci- ties of the Western States have also been asked to assist in the search. ------------ The Canadian National Railways have opened an office in Christiania, with Paul Rochussen in charge. Mr. Rochussen 'is a former British vice- consul to Norway. Three evangelists visit Toronto on trans-continenmtal preaching tour in motor car. Wheat pool, which will handle but driver and belper are unscath- od. . a bushel down for current delivery. 'PRINCE SAILS FOR AMERICA Went Aboart at Four O'clock in the Morning. WAS ASLEEP IN BED When the Crowds Were Waiting For Him at the Steamer Train. Southampton, Eng., Aug. 25. == In holiday attire, with flags flying and bunting waving, the giant liner Berengaria, with the Prince of Wales on board, sailed for the United States at.2.30 o'clock Saturday af- ternoon. The prince is on his way to visit his ranch in Alberta, Can- ada. The quays were lined with large crowds of townspeople, who waved enthusiastic farewells to the depart ing vessel, but there was no response trom the royal quarters where the prince was sleeping peacefully, have ing gone to bed 'for a much-needed rest immediately after he went on board at 4 o'clock in the morning. Determined there should be as little ceremony as possible in connec tion with his sailing, his Royal Highs ness late Friday slipped quietly out of London by automobile, spent a few hours at the Isle of Wight, about twenty miles from here, boarded the Berengaria almost without being noticed and immediately went to bed. As the prince intended travelling in the guise of an ordinary passen= ger, it had been arranged that he should come here on the regular boat train leaving the Waterloo Station, London, at 11 o'clock Saturdsy more ning. He was assured of a hearty send-off there by the crowds who al- ways surge around him to witness his comings and goings. The last minute change in his plans caused much disappointment among his admirers. On the Isle of Wight the prince spent a few hours with Lord and Lady Louis Mountbat- ten who are accompanying him on the voyage. He left in a motor Jaunch during the small hours of the morning and boarded the Berenga- ETRE 8. 2 A {Ege The giant liner was dressed her best array to receive the prince, gaily-colored flags flying from stem to stern and from starboard to port in honor of her royal passenger. Bx- ternally the liner looked like a prand new ship, for she has been painted all over and up to the last minute workmen were busy putting finishing touches to her hull. The ship's chef has prepared sev- eral decorative features for the cold buftet. The centrepiece, carved in wax, represents Neptune raising aloft a trident in his right hand and driv- ing four sea horses with his left hand. Neptune stands in a chariot and is rising from the sea. er m-- Baptists Immerse Coriverts in a Distillery Vat i Greenbrier, Tenn., Aug. 25.~--Re- cently convertéd Baptists here have undergone the unusual sensation of Leing immersed in a pool formerly used as a vat in distflling a famous brand of whiskey. When the word was sent out the converts were to be baptized in the pool once used to cool the condens~ ing coils of the Greenbrier distillery; everybody went to the baptizing. Several thousand persons were pre sent and only a small per cent. of them could get into the building. Thirty-three were immersed and it took almost all day for the ceremony. tet Uses a Searchlight To Kill Skeeters Ss Belgrade, Jugoslavia, Aug. 28. An ingenious local locksmith has devised a trap for mosquitoes, which are not only a great pest in this re- gion, but have become & gorions health problem because of spreading of malaria. He set a pow= erful searchlight in one of the publis parks here, to which was attached 8 suction apparatus. As the insects # approach the light they are drawl into a receptacle. The inventor 8 - obliged to empty the receptacle at very short intervals, go efficacious is | the trap. ------------ Herriot aiming to bring about commercial treaty with Germany tor production of iron and steel pros ducts, : ---------- $3805 590090000000 * * 4 CONFIDENCE VOTED IN * HERRIOT GOVERNMENT » -- # Paris, Aug. 25.--The Cham- & # ber of Deputies early Sunday # # morning voted confidence in > #4 the Herrict Government by 336 # ; # to 304, following the long de- & 4 bate in the Chamber om the # > & & Government's action at the & 4 London conference. * much 'of prairie crop, will pay dollar | & » "08005000000 080008 J 3 i

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