CAPITOL NOW SHOWING: "WINE OF YOUTH" With an All Star Cast The Daily Britis CAPITOL THURS. FRL, SAT. James Kirkwood--- Alma Rubens in "GERALD CRAN. STON'S LADY" SITET TETware VYYYeA TG UNABLE 10 NAKE PORT: The Suimge Princ Found kt Safer to Remain Outside. GREAT CONCERN FELT For Safety i the Kingston Boat But the Craft Finally Made Sackets Harbor. Great concern was felt about the ¢ity when a despatch came in on Sat- urday from Watertown, N.Y, stating that the steamer Salvage Prince, of the Pyke Towing and Salvage Com- pany, which had left Cape Vincent the day before had failed to arrive| at Sodus, N. Y. At four o'clock Sat- urday Mrs. Pyke received a long dis- tance call from Captain Pyke stating that they had made Sackets Harbor in safety after a day and night of ex- traordinary difficulty and danger. They had left the Cape on Thurs- day at 9.30 and soon afterwards had run into very thick 'weather. With the high wind and driving snow it became more dangerous to try and make port than to face the storm. Twice they almost made Oswego, but were unable to enter the harbor. Thelr bows became heavily loaded with ice and steering became diffi- cult. It was Saturday afternoon when the storm had blown itself out that the tug put in to.Sackets Har- bor. The Salvage Prince is under char- ter by the Russell company to help the tug Joseph L. Russell break two barges of coal out of the-ice at So- dus and tow them to Toronto. These barges were surrounded by eight- inch ice on Saturday and the cold weather of Sunday will have made it even more difficult to free them. The Russell, under command of Cap- tain Willard, cleared from Kingston on Sunday mérning and reached So- dus safely, but found that the Sal- vage Prince had not yet arrived. Af- ter this job the Prince is to be laid up at Kingston if she can make her way back. The Russell will winter at Toronto. This experience is another evi- "quntities of the Salvage Prince, which she first 6d by crossing the Atlantic late in the season under her. own steam, Still Anxious. On Monday afternoon at 2.40 o'clock the lifeguard at Oswego, N.Y., when speaking to the Whig over long-distance telephone, etated that the Salvage Prince left Sackets Har- bor on Sunday morning and had not been heard of since that time. It was stated that there was a chance that the tug may be in shelter. Capt. Charles Willard;-in command of the tug Joseph L. Russell, when © speaking to the Whig from Sodus " Point, stated that he thought the Balvage Princé was likely in shelter at Stoney Island, about nine miles from Sackets Harbor. Capt. Willard sald that there was eight inches of fce In the harbor at Sodus. He has » couple of barges which he intended to take to Toronto, but . he would have to stay there for the present on account of the hedvy ice. Captain Willard telephoned his wife oft Monday afternoon to the effect that if the Salvage Prince is not heard of by Tuesday morning he will b the ice in the harbor at Sodas Point and go in search. He stated that & high sea was running and for that reason nothing could be dome .or the present. EOE NEY Instructor Dead. * 'Vancouver, B.C., Dec. 22.--Sergt-' Major a. A. Clements, R.C.E., one of the best known Instructors in military engineering in Canada, is dead here. + | (Hirer eriieiessy {| + PUT UNDER ARREST |: FOR FAKING SANTA Philadelphia, Dec. 22. 3 Christopher Ignox is under ar- rest for impersonating Santa : Claus. All dressed up in % whiskers and red coat, he % paraded the thoroughfares + taking up a collection with a % tin pan for a tamborine. He ® was escorder before the judge 4 charged with soliciting money. sisstsstsesaas CIPI L LEIP IIIOEIRY CHRISTMAS STRAWBERRIES, gr New Year's Roses Also in Bloom at Oape May, NJ. 'Cape May, N.J., Dec. 22.--A cold wave may be sweeping: over the edstern states, but Fred. Bennett, of Corgle street, this city, will pick enough strawberries out of his gar- den to gepply his neighbors with dessert for Christmas. On New Year's Day, when Sena- tor Willlam H. Bright, of Wildwood, | who is president of the New Jersey senate, takes his seat, roses will be | placed on his desk from gardens in this efty. It is understood that a special train will run. from Cape May county to Trenton on that day to celebrate 'the event. The Evacuation Chances Slight 'Owing to Allied Mission Report That Germany Is Persisting In Arming. Parls, Dec. 22.--The chances of the Cologne area being e€vacuated by the Allies on January '10th under the provisions of the treaty of Ver- sailles have been further diminish- ed, it 'is thought in French. official circles, by the regular semi-monthly report -of the Allied military control mission in Germany, This report, which now is in the hands of the Allied war committee, is understood to confirm special reports in their charge that Germany was persisting in arming, contrary to the peace treaty provisions. News of f the Wires In Condensed Form Germapy feeling its way toward joining League of Nations. French Chamber decides to elect fts president. by public vote. Canadian physicians decide meet annually in federal council: Mrs. William D. Rogers, Oshawa, died from effects of severe burns. The return of the Romanoffs to the throne of Russia is forevasted in Paris. Frank Hodges, once civil lord of the British admiralty, is again a coal miner. Thomas Slee, Zephyr, arrested as seventh suspected member of gang of suburban robbers and "fire- buks. " Automobiles numbering 5,214, and valued at $3,226,339, were seized by United States prohibition authorities in the last fiscal year. New York interests, operating a chain of prominent hotels in several cities, are investigating. the Cecil Hotel property with a view to the construction of a large mew hotel in Ottawa, > Clarence S. Darrow, Chicago, sup- ports the abolition of capital punish- ment, 'while Robert L. Calder, K.C., Montreal, justifies retention of the scaffold for the protection of society at present. " Deaths from cancer increased in the United States in 1923, while the fight against tuberculosis made pro- gress. A total of 86,764 deaths were reported' to the Census Bureau as having resulted from cancer last year, to "You Said It, Marceline!" MARCELINE #ALROY \ "ON "DRESSING FOR BUSINESS!" SOME GIRLS START Their BUSINESS DAY In CHIFFON HOSE, SILK dresses and NO In other words, At NINE O'CLOCK * Ia the MORNING they sre ALREADY dressed tor The EVENING. : MANY of these girls LIVE AT HOME, and . f Spend all thelr salary ' 5 Manage to LOOK LIKE A MILLION DOLLARS : Om MUCH LESS. | But THIS does not SATISFY them, so they Start to LOOK for A man with a REAL Million, and very often They "GET AWAY WITH IT™ It & YOUNG MAN Came to BUSINESS In & TUXEDO Everyone would say He was CRAZY. But if GIRLS get started On the WRONG TRACK Everyone 1s TOO POLITE To aus what be THINKS, |For Protesting Against Being Asked to Retire From KINGSTON, ONTARIO. MONDAY, : LIVES ENDED IN NEW YORK 'Two Women Who Could Not Ea- joy Christmas Suicide. JUNPED FROM HOUSES) Into the Street---One, a Widow, Had Struggled For a Year Against Poverty. New York, Dec. 22.--Two men, f{inable to participate Christmas festivities, ended lives yesterday. Miss Frieda Cohen, who had been ill, watched the preparations at her sister's home for Christmas, and then went tothe roof and plunged to the street, dying immediately. Mrs. Mary Kremek, whose hus- band died just after last Christmas, after struggling for a year against poverty, threw herself from the top of a tenement in which she liv- ed, after reading a letter from her little daughter in a charity institu- tion, who -complained that Christ- mas would be so different because "we haven't a daddy now." An unidentified young woman is reported to be dying in a city hos- pital after drinking iodine on _the platform of a "subway station. 'She left a note saying '""do mot anybody, good-bye." wo- in their RAZE OANADIAN FORESTS. . To Provide United States Christmas Trees. Washington, Dec. 22.--Canada is With alarmed because her forests are bew ing depleted to furnished the United States with Christmas trees. Much "dissatisfaction" was' registered in Nova Scotia this month when single shipment of 111. carloads of Christmas trees was sent to this country, according to consular ad- vices to the department ol com- merce. ILEEGAL- T0-SELL - GASOLINE SUNDAY Police Court Conviction Under Lord's Day Act Upheld In Saskatchewan. Moose Jaw, Dec. 22.--By a judg- ment handed down Saturday, Judge F. A. G. Ouseley has upheld a con- viction under the Lord's Day Act, .registered in the city Police Court, against an employee of a local gar- agé for selling gasoline on Sunday. A number of garage owners were prosecuted under the act, and a no- minal fine inflicted, it being un- derstood that the cases would be appealed. A test case was taken and appealed against the judgment of Magistrate Lemon, and in his decision Judge Ouseley declared that centain provisions in the act are paradoxical, in that a citizen may hire & horse and rig for a drive on a Sunday, and he is pro- tected by statute, as is aleo a Hv- ery keeper, but if another citizen drives an amtomobile to a filling station and purchases gasoline, both he and the owner are liable to be prosecuted. His Honor remarked: "This sit- uation is one with which I have no- thing to do, and the remedy i8 by legislation only. The appellant here not having made enquiries as to whether, or not the parties to whom he sold gasoline were bona fide tra- vellers, has not brought himself within the exemption clause of the stat and in my opinion was pro- perly convicted in the court below, and the appeal is dismissed with costs." s ak _ a Montreal, Dec. 22.--At a special general meeting of the shareholders of the Molsons Bank at the head of- fice here this morning, the sale of | that Institution to the Bank of Montreal, - as announced - several weeks ago, was formally ratified. SIKI AND HIS WIFE PLACED UNDER ARREST Memphis Restaurant. Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 23 "Battling" Siki, Senegalese pugilist, his wife anfl her bro- ther were arrested Saturday night" after a disturbance in a fashionable suburban ° restaur-. ant here. Upon being informed hlame |. CEEFFIFIEROPEITOGS * + CROWN PROSECUTOR * L 2 KILLED IN HOTEL ¢ + » + Edmonton, Alta, Dec. 22.-- # % A: M. Knight, crown prosecu- + # tor, was killed by falling down % + the shaft of a service elevator % in a local hotel Saturday night. # PPP PPPSEPPFPSPPSY INVESTIGATE DEATH "OF TORONTO WOMAN Medical Doctor Was Not Called in Until She Became Unconscious. Toronto, Dec. 22.--Police officials are investigating the circumstances surréunding the eath early this morning, in a local hospital, of Mrs. Elsle Maguire, aged forty. Mrs. Maguire was suffering from an ad- vanced diabetes condition and when Dr. Thomas Kerr was called in yes- terday he found her in a critical state and ordered her Temoval to the hospital immediately. Accord- ing to her husband, Mrs. Maguire had been under the care of a Chris- tian Science practitioner during the | past two weeks. Yesterday he se- cured medical attention when his wife lapsed into condition. The physiclang decided that Mrs. Maguire was in too weak a condition to be a. 4 8 -opsrdied upon. TWELVE OVERCOME BY FUMES OF GAS Which Seeped Into Houses From a Broken Main Under Ottawa Sidewalk. Ottawa, Dec. 12.--Twelve persons were overcome by gas fumes and two familes «were driven out of their homes'early Sunday morning ' following a break in a gas maia on Booth street. The gas seeped Into three houses from under the sidewalk. Thesescaping gas also found its way into the sewer causing such pressure that the tops of three manholes. were blown off. Ome flying cover broke the window of a bank nearby. don, A nh -- ti Loado e ation from the Britieh Trades Union Con- gress, which has just returned from a six weeks' tour of inspection in Russia, has {ssued a preliminary report pending the preparation of u detailed report for publication la- ter declaring that the soeial, econ- omig and industrial .conditions in Russia have enormously {improved since a trade union delegation -made a similar visit in 1920. Big Fire In New Orleans, New Orleans, Dec. 22.--Three warehouses, the stable, plant and of- fices of the Liberty Oil Co., were destroyed by fire yesterday. Hund- reds of barrels of oil were consum- ed and thirty horses and mules perished. The loss is about half a million dollars. NO ESCAPE FROM CROWD PSYCHOLOGY 8ir Joseph Flavelle Pleads for Good Will In Banks and Parliament. . Toronto, Ded. 22.--"You esnnot| get away from crowd psychology." was the statement of Bir Joseph Flavelle, vice-president of the Bank of Commerce, in the course of a brief address on the relations of banks to parliament and the public at a luncheon given by his honor Lieutenant-Govérnor Cockshutt to two hundred banking men of Toron- to at Government House Saturday afternoon, 8ir Joseph declared that ft would never be possible to get away from public criticism of great corpora- tions, and he pleaded for a spirit of goodwill in the banks and in parlia- ment wh believe in each other. +(By Canada to 0 See Big In- a semi-conscious, % would lead people to. 'vored many 23, 1924 A STRONG BD : WILL BE MADE i migration Thi This Year. AN AGGRESSIVE POLICY On the Lines of the Requirements Statement Made By Hon. J. A 'Robb. Ottawa, Dec. 22:--That Canada will carry on an aggressive immi- gration policy along the lines of her requirements, was indicated in the course of an interview with Hon. James A. Robb, minister of asi: | gration and colonization. Speaking of immigration prospects" for ths | coming year, Mr. Robb stated that, | while criticism had been levelled at | the department from certain direc- | tions, and the ground taken that conditions did not warrant any- thing being done in the way of bringing in newcomers to the coun- try, he was satisfied, from his own knowledge of the west, as well as of other parts of Canada, that there | was a general improvement, and | that the improvement was ample HON. J. A. ROBB re justification for his department un- dertaking a more vigorous cam- paign. The first move In this direc- tion was. accomplished during his recent visit to the British Isles, when arrangements had been made with. the Imperial Government for the placing of 8,000 British agri- cultural. families on farms in Can- ada. This scheme was now being worked out, and the coming spring would find the first section of not | less than 1,200 families coming for- ward for placement in the various provinces. Constructive work of this nature was eure to bring about splendid results, and Mr. Robb add- ed that, with the proof of Canada's ability to place assisted and select- ed British immigrants of this kind, demonstrated to the people of the Old Country, a still greater en- deavof in the same direction will be the outcome as soon as the 3.- 000 family scheme fs completed, as It will be at the end of the second year, instead of the third year -as first arranged. Deputy Minister Active. Close investigation on his visit to the British Isles had convinced him, he continued, of the necessity of es- of advantage, and of something like a business system, showing the work done and the results attained at the various offices, as well as the de- letion of much of the same methods and the installation of an up to date plan in the panvass for dnd the securing of the plass of immigrant most required in Canada. It 'was, therefore," with a view to having fhese much needed changes brought about that he had instructed Mr. W. J. Egan, deputy minister of the department of immigration and col- onization, to proceed to the United Kingdom, and also to visit the con- and ascertain the possibility of Can- ada's obtaining from: the northern European countries ¢he classes which Canada is in a position to readily absorb--the farmer and farm laborer. *4 The Right Type. - Mr. Robb he the neces- sity for ihe selection of the right by certain ship, ag Interests, that tere were thousands in Europe of tablishing offices at the best points | 'whether it will enter | congregation, PPPPPLRIRICTPOIORIINY BRITISH MEN-OF-WAR TAKE POST IN ADRIATIC London, Dec. 22.--British warships from Malta have ar- rived at Valona and Furazino, according to a despatch to the Evening News from Brindisi. Fugitives from 'Albania to those ports confirm the gravity of the internal situation, the despatch says. Pes estrbasses TTT Tis PPPPPPOPEPRIPEISPTS lee placing of 650 of these continental families. With lessened restrictions on na- tionals of the Scandinavian coun- tries, an increased iMflux from Nor- way, Sweden and Dénmark is ex- pected. Switzerland has a distinct leaning, Mr. Robb says, towards placing some of its surplus popula- tion in Canada. A revival of inter-} est in Canada is noted in the Irish Free State, where for years politi- cal condition prevented Canada from carrying on an active immi- gration CAmpliEN. Liquor or Laws il Remain The King Government Does Not toad to Meddle With Them. Ottawa, Dec. 22.--The fear sald to be expressed among Conserva- tives, conferring at Toronto, that Premier King might go to the coun- try with a promise to repeal the Do- herty act clause barring the importa- tion of liquor into provinces, for purposes other than those declared to be legal in such provinces, is re- | garded here. as highly grotesque. It may be stated with authority that Premier King and his government have no intention of meddling at all with existing federal liquor legisla- tion, either in the matter of amend< ment or repeal. And it is absolutely certain that they have no intention of making suéh a question an issue of a general election, The Doherty Act. is sifply an en- abling measure permitting the tak- ing by provinces of a plebiscite on the question of importation. It was passed in the war yearg and is likely to remain on the statute books for an indefinite period. Plebiscites un- der it have been taken in practically 'all the provinces but Quebec and British Columbia, but since these were taken there havé been changes in the method of handling liquor in various of the provinces concerned. There are indications that de- mands will be made for changes in the existing laws affecting liquor and even for dominion-wide prohibition. That the latter demand will not re- ceive much consideration from the government is regarded as certain. The federal authority has no inten- 'tion of imposing its will upon pro- vincial authority In. this regard. There will likely be a demand for an embargo: on the export of liquor from Canada.to foreign countries now under prohibition, but it is not thought that such a move would meet with the approval of the 'ma- jority in parliament A notice is al- regdy on the order paper under the name of Joseph Archambault, ex- pressing the--opinion that the manu- facture of liquor should be prohibit- ed ir prohibition provinces. The notice is palpably aimed against On- tario and is more or less sardonic in character. Albania formally appeals to the League of Nations in her dispute with Jugo-Slavia. Kerensky, former premier of Rus- sla, will return from exile, tinent, there to look over the field |r Three of LAST EDITION CAR PLUNGES INTO A RIVER Two Canadians Among the Eight Who Were | Killed. bt A BROKEN | SWITCHBOLT Apparently Caused the Accident Rt Hal a Mile From Chip- pewa Falls, Wisconsin," Chippewa Falls, Wis.,, Dec, 22. In the list of eight persons who were killed Saturday when a Boo Line observation car of a Minneapo- lis<Chicago train, plunged into the Chippewa River, appears the name of; Kennet J. Henderson, of Moose Jaw, Sask., and Richard W. Sharp, of Toronto. Work of removing the death cae from the river was completed late yesterday. Search of the wreckage failed to reveal any additional bo dies, and those in charge of the work expressed the belief that ail the victims had been accounted for, An official inquiry inta the probe able causes of the crash was start ed yesterday with Harold E. Staf. ford, district attorney, and officials of the Soo Line, pursuing separate investigations. A broken switchbolt was the cause of the accident, which occurred as the train. was pulling into Chippewa Falls, over the 700 foot trestle that spans the Chippewa river about a half mile from the railroad station, The railroad parallels the river * along the north shore for some dis tance and the approach to the bridge is '@ wide curve terminating just as the trestle is reached. . About 200 feet from the bridge is a side track with a switch off of the Minnesota line. This track don- tinues along the river shore, while the mainline turns onto the fiver trestle. The bolt, in this switch appar- ently had been snapped by the in- tense cold and the forward, coaches of the train had pounded against the left rail, on the outside of the curve, right. at the switch, until its point" had been battered down. All the coaches passed safely over this point except the rear trucks of the rear coach, which was a combi« nation observation and cafe car. Tracks along the ties show the rear trucks, without the stabilizing {nflu- ence of a coach behind them, jumped over the battered rail and travelled down the side track about three feet before being pulled toward the bridge turn. For the 200. feet pa the trestle was reached, the rear trucks travels led along the ties and out on 'to the trestle. Then, apparently, the connection with the rest of the train was broke en as the rear trucks clung tena- clously to the edge of the trestle. The severance from the rest of the train caused the forward end of the car to swing sharply to the side. For & moment it poised thete as though considering its plunge, then hurtled downward for some 60 feet, turning over as it went, and buried its nose, bottom up, in the murky waters of the river, The force of the plunge 'carried the forward end of the car into the muddy bottom of the river and so ° firmly did the car rest that its rear remained well above the surface of the water. Moscow Man of 91 Years Carries Christmas Tree Home Géorge Asselstine, Moscow, who is in his ninety-firet year and 4s still apparently v { .| quite active, last week went to the woods, cut a Christmas tree, carried it Wome on lis back and erpcted. it in the home. Mr. "Asse ~ has been in the habit of cutting a tree each year. Lagt summer Mr. Assel« stine built a hén house od the farm. The Whig hopes that he will be spared many years. Kingston's Presbyterian Chreles To Yote This Winter o on the Union Question St. Andrew's will not be the only Presbyterian church in Kingston to take a vote on the question of the United Church of Canada or remain Presby- terian. The session of Cooke's chureli has decided. to have a vote of its members in February and a suf- "ficiently signed petition has been ted to the session of Chalmers ing that a vote be taken in that St, Andrew's is known to be strongly asti-union. Cooke's will vote strongly union and it Is expected that Chalmers will also give a gnion majority although | weeks, the antig claim that the vote in this Old. Free church may cause & sur- prise. Last week a Renfrew minis. ter made the statement that eixty per cent, of the Presbyterian con- 'will enter the United Church ett of Ontario would vote themselves out of the Union and continue as they are now, This statement has caused a good 'deal of surprise. The vote in Chalmers con= gregation here will be especially in+ teresting. but the unionists declare that they will show a good majority, In Toronto the unionist headquare ters says that 80" per cent. of the Presbyterian clergy in active work Cane ada. Definite figures are to be ] ed this week. My, Ouiatie the vote is to last tw A xs vote by 2 show of hand, ora "ote