Rs The Baily British Whig THURSDAY, JUNE CAPITOL FRL and SAT. MAE BUSCH EUGENE Povdgcco "FRIVOLOUS SAL" 2 . LAST EDITION. CONTINUING PRESBYTERIANS "HOPE IN FEW YEARS T0 GAIN ALL THEY HAVE LATELY LOST Prediction Made By Rev. A. J. Nella, of of Guelph---The Great United Church Session of Wednesda 1 Nisionaris of the Foreign Fields Present a elt Be Wel ot the General Council Sessions. KINGSTON, ONTARIO, 1925. LOOKING AROUND" If a quart of milk can be delivered at your door for tem cents, how much should you be charged for the same- quantity of 4.4 beer? As the attorney-general Has been in the milk 'business and is the father of the new beer, he should be able td ive a very concise answer to the bove Question. YEAR 92; No. 136. 11, PINCHED BATE OCCURS [© ere] ~~ BETWEEN STRIKING MINERS "353 = AND POLICE; ONE MAN DEAD and Pole as Apex. | Ooch Over the New Yew Water, N.S., Power Station hich the Strikers Recaptared After Their Pickets Had Been Driven Out By He Polke Ti Situation Is ni + + CANADA'S WHEAT CROP CONDITION 102 P.C. Ottawa, June 11.--The con- dition of Canada's wheat crop on May 30th stood at 102 per cent. of the average yleld per acre for the previous ten years. This is the estimate of the Do- minion Bureau of Statistics in the first of its reports on the present crop. The tigure of 102 per cent. compares with 96 per cent. for May 30th, 1924, and 98 per cent. for May 30th, 1923. It is the highest since May 30th, 1921, when the esti- mate then also was 102 per cent. Ottawa, June 11.--Canada's claim 0 the northern achipelago was again asserted in the House of Commons yesterday by Hon. Charles Stewart, Minister of the Inteflor. Tabling a large map, Mr. Stewart sald that the Canadian claim was to islands lying north of the Cana- dian mainland up to the North Pole. The limits of Canada's claim, as in- dicated on the map, formed a great triangle with the mainland as the Te Across the border in New York ~ Glace Bay, N. §., June 11.--After a pitched battle lasting upwards of fifteen minutes, the striking miners, shortly after noon to-day, recaptured the New Waterford power station from which they weré driven this morning base and the North Pole as the apex. The western boundary was a con- tinuation of the boundary between Canada and Alaska; the eastern, took by the corporation police. This afternoon they are in complete control of (8 line up Davis straits between Can- the plant. One man, William Davis, was killed and another, Gitbert Watson, was 'shot in the stomach and severely injured in the battle. A samber of the British Empire Steel Corporation's police were injured. The situation at the Waterford plant is reported t& be serious. Early pickets were driven from the plant by the police and steps Were immediatsly taken ta get up steam while the polico kept guard Aud mounted officers patrolled the colliery district. A first. clash, a large body of strikers met fi the ball park tuation, and some time later were seen moving towards "the powes plant. The police prepared for battle, but were in a short time this morning . Following and discussed the overcome by superior numbers. FRONTENAC DISTRICT ~ WOMAN'S INSTITUTE Holds Annual Meeting--Mrs. J © DD. Shibley Was Re-Elected As President. © The large hall of the Eastern Dairy School was filled on Thursday 'morning with members of the Wo- man's Institute of the district of Frontenac, thirteen branches being represented. Mrs. J. D, 8hibley, the district president, was in the chair, and after the usual opening was held she gave a short address, speak- dng of the work of the year. Mrs. G. W. McNaughton, Syden-} Ti Banbury; Mrs... B. Sproule, West- i} |burnie. I WRAL SHIBLEY ob] i en's Tits" oF Proptenn ham, secretary Sroasuror for the dis trict, and the representative of the Farated Iffstitutes board, gave her report, Mrs. Shibley and Mrs. Mc- Nuughton represented the district "at the convention of the Institute of | Hastérn Ontario and Mra. D. An- . ~ulin, Battersea, Mrs. McLean, Pitts- _ burg and Mrs. Yorké, Parham, re- presented their branches. ' y © ~Mrs. McNaughton stressed the im- portance of the federation of the In- stitutes saying material advantages were to be got from the Union. Two . new branches, the Harrowsmith Ex- branch and a , |intendent of 4 cla Is SK sula Sproule, Prontenac Juniors. The matter of accepting the offer of the direétors:ef the Kingston In dustrial Exhibition for space at the fall exhibition of 1925 was brought up. Mr. George'A. Putnan, super- Woman's Institutes, spoke in favor of accepting the of- fer of free space and suggested ex- Ribitions of labor saving devices prizes for millinery and dressmak- ing and a demonstration to be run by the Junior Institutes. The élection of officers took place, Mrs. J. H. Shibley, Harrowsmith, be- ing re-elected president for a fourth term, and Mrs. G. W. McNaughton, Bydenham re-elected as secretary-. treasurer. The vice-presidents are Mrs. F. 8. Ferguson, Inverary, Mrs. D. Macdonald, Mountain Grove. Directors, Mrs. J. D. Clark, Moun- tain Grove; Mrs. L. B. Bateman, Parham; Mrs. E. E. 'Day, Harrow. smith , Mrs. C. G. McKnight, Miss Helen F. Kerr, Harrowsmith Juniors; Mrs. H. W. Guess, Syden- ham; Mrs. R. Arthur, Inverary; Mrs. J. Ducette, Battersea: Mrs. C. Smith, | brooke; Miss Helen Gates, Fronténac Juniors; Mrs. H. Hawkey, Glen- || Protest Against Shooting of Rioting Students Moscow, June 11.---All communist central organizations and working men's clubs in Moscow and Lenin- grad today held meetings of protest against the shooting of "the rioting Chinese students by the Sikh police at Shanghai on May 30th. Meetings will be held throughout Soviet Rus- sia. USED KNIFE ON SON: COMES T0 ROCKWOOD 'Mrs. Jessie Ward, of Toronto, Undergoes a Mental Examination. Mrs. Jessie Ward, aged 44 years, of Toronto, has been admitted to Rockwood Hospital here for examin ation as a result of an attack made by her upon her son in Belleville on Tuesday night when she wielded a butcher knife. Aithough she did, not harm the boy, she was charged with atteinpted murder and was re- manded for eight days, an examin- ation of the woman's mental condi- be of ada and Greenland and lowed long. 60 west to the Pole. Mr. Stewart roughly defined the territory then fol- imed by Canada as that lying north of Canada, west of Greenland, between 60 and 143.= ------ | » PRESBYTERIAN MODERATOR. the Rev. Dr. r. Ephraim Scott of Montreal REV. DR. E. 8COTT Toronto, June 11.--Rev. Dr. Ep- Eraim Scott of Montreal was this morning unanimously elected moder- ator of the General Assembly of the "continuing Presbyterian church at the initial session this morning. Car Goes Over Bridge London, June 11.--Four men and three women in an excur- sion party of corporation ofi- clals of York were killed out- right today when a motor coach in which they were riding got beyond control of the driver and plunged down hill at Crassing- ton, Yorkshire, crashed over a bridge and overturned into the river thirty feet below. WILL GATHER FOR . PRAYER AND PRAISE United ©Ohuroh tc to Make Effort Towards Deepening of the Spiritual Life. Toronto, June 11---At an early date not yet fixed, a period 'of time' will set apart when all members of the United Church of Canada will be asked to gather for prayer, praise and" consecration. This was recom- mended today to the general council the church 'by the joint union committee reporting through the chairman; Rev. "war vom union, said Dr. Pidgeon, first 'great effort should be towards the deepening of our spiritual life." The chairman told the delegates that a Sudalution would Dr. G. C. Pidgeon. born in evangelism and our be presented _j{for small' state the authorities are having a dificult time getting the kids to wear bathing suits when they g° swimming. Kingston lads give no trouble in this regard. At all thé places where bathing is possible, the youngsters are properly garbed, which is more than the majority of us--even our law offielals of today-- could say when We were Even off Macdonald Park, so close to the public street, no one who went bathing below the mapteHo tower thirty odd years ago pos~ sessed such a thing a bathing suit. If there was a cry of "Police," {it was grad your clothes and run for. cover. The Liberals are strong on deco- rum in the House of Commons. When a Tory arose and asked if the mem- bers might sit in their shirt sleeves and without collars, the Speaker was shocked and read the members a lecture. It might be all right for the commoners to sit in the cham- ber with their hats on their heads, and for members of the Presbyterian General Assembly in Toronto to re- move their coats during the heated spell, but the commoners must be decorous.! They may. add to their clothing, but 'they must not sub- tract. And the Speaker was right. All dignity is lost when men sit in their shirt sleeves at any assembly excepting a baseball match or a ecir- cus. In the office and the store, too, men look better wearing a coat. There is a great deal of truth in the tailors' advertisements that clothes help to make the man. -- There is an excellent landing place excurglon boats at the os " between Johnson and, William streets; just below the rail- way station. This whart is far bet- ter than the one between Brock and Clarence streets. It was rebuilt by the Grand Trunk people when the old freight building was removed, and makes an excellent landing place. - It is lower than the othel wharf about which complaint is made because of its poor coadition, and it is a wonder that boats com- ing into the city do not use this rails way wharf, Ca---------- ¥ Although it is years since he lived in Kingston, there are hundredf still Jesiding here who will remember kindly the late Col. J. H. Neilson, who passed away a few days ago at his old home down in Quebec pro- vince. Dr. Neilson was a prominent figure in Kingston in the nineties. He was one of the old school of military doctors--avery inch a sol- dier and gentleman. He wore the old English monocle, which added 'to his dignified bearing. Dr. Neil- son was a scholarly man and of a type we do not meet today. ---- ; It fell to the lot of a son of King- ston to officially declare the United Church of Canada constituted in Toronto on Wednésday, the 10th of June: Rev. Dr. 8. D, Chown spent his early life in this city and rose to the position of superintendent of the Methodist Church of Canada. Little did this ative born son of the Limestone City dream that the day young] P2422 44002200000 CPPPREP2PR00 000 Locomotive Driver Is Freed Because of 23-Year Record Perth, June 11.--Because of --his unblemished record of 25 years service, Walter Noreys, locomotive driver, was discharg- ed free of blame by Judge J. H. _ Scott, when he appeared in JPerth court yesterday in the case arising out of the Glen Tay train wreck, when another en- gineer, David Bourne, of To- ronto, lost his life. Other fact- ors influencing his judgment, Judge Scott salid, were that the occasion' was Norey's cab at the time of the wreck and that the occasion was Noreys' first run on the section in day time. ARRIVAL OF EARL HAIG. Official Reception at Ottawa at Central Station. Ottawa, June 11.---According to present plans, Field Marshal Haig will arrive in Ottawa on June 28th, and will be a guest at the Chateau Laurier. In his party will be Lady Haig and his. daughter; General Blair, secretary, and Mrs. Blair. Earl Haig will be accorded an of- ficial reception at the Central Sta- tion, where a guard of honor will be detailed for duty. On the even- ing of either June 29th or June 30th he will be the guest of the Gov- ernment of Canada at a dinner, and will leave for Winnipeg on the night of July 1st. The Nova Scotla Result Will .Decide Date, Says An Ottawa Paper. Ottawa, June 11.--Both the Jour- nal and Citizen are confident that the electors of the Dominion will £0 to the polls some time this year to register their votés in a general election. While the Citizen asserts that dissolution will probably occur in September, with elections in Oct- ober, the Journal says "between now and November the Reople will 80 to the polls." The exact date of the election, the Journal understands, will. depend upon the result in . Nova Scotia, where a general election will be held on June 25. "If the Armstrong Government is returned, the ten- dency will' be to strike quickly, so as to reap the full benefits from the psychological 'effect of another pro- vincial Liberal victory." * the Journal says. "If, on the other hand, the Conservatives carry Nova Scotia, the Government will pin its faith upon a good crap, prospeéts of which appear excellent, In any case, there is now no likelihood of the Gavern- ment walting until next year." The Citizen says the Saskatche-| wan election, in which the Dunning Liberal admin on was returns ed, has a psychological influence, even ugh the Issues were cpro- vincial, and ddds there is a quiet re- vival of the talk about Premier Dunning of Saskatchewan entering the Mackensie King cabinet WHISKEY IN SALMON. Bottle of Old Scotch Discovered In- Buffalo, June 11.--The Biblical characters of Jonah and the hale weré im personated yesterday by | Bottle of "pre-war" Scotch and a 25. PPP 229940 900000000000 Toronto, June 11.--~Reports on the strength of continuing Presbyterians in the Ontario Presbyteries were re- ceived at the afternoon session of the continuing Presbyterians at Cooke's Church. This session com- pleted the business sessions of the congress, and today the assembly of the continuing church commences. It was announced that a telegram had been received from the Govern- ment at Ottawa that the federal com- mission for the division ¢f the gen- eral property of the [Presbyterian Church would be appointed on June 12th, instead of nine months hence, as provided in the Church Union Act. The Government mads the change by order-in-council at the re- quest of the Presbyterians. Rev. A. J. McGillivray, of Guelph, was the principal speaker of the af- ternoon. He states that 400 minid- ters in Canada had signified their intention of remaining with the Presbyterian, church. There would be more, he said, as ministers had until September to make up their minds. The greatest need at pre- sent, he said, was the grace of patience. The church Had been shattered, but not destroyed, and now was the time to rise and re- build. Congregations, he continued, would have to be generous and ministers must take a greater part in the work than they had done before. "We cannot expect to build up tho church in a few days nor § few months," he declared. "We need the optimistic spirit, and we can look with confidence to the fyture because the church will be & a hund- red years from mow. I have never {lad any doubt about the Presbyte- rian Church, no matter what the po- lticians or clerical denominations did. I think that within" three to five years we will have regained all that we have lost. Our primary ob- Ject should be to make a ' great church, but not necessarily a big church." Br" MISSIONARIES' GIFT Of a Gavel To the United Church General Council. Toronto, June :11.--8even thou- sand people crowded into the Arena yesterday for the second session of the inauguration of the United Church of Canada. When Rev. Dr. Pidgeon, modera- tor for the session, and the speakers of the day ascended the platform they were greeted with applause and the entire assembly rose to honor them. A-guest-of honor upon the plat- form was Hon. W. R. Motherwell, federal minister of agriculture. Hon. Joseph Thompson, speaker of the Ontario legislature, occupied a seat to the left of the platform. In the block of seats allotted for the general council the Methodists, Presbyterians and Congregational- ists mingled and mixed without dif- ference or distinction. A . / The Missionaries' Gift. Rev. Dr. R. P. Mackay, the vet- eran head of the Presbyterian fore eign mission board, then presented to the moderator the gavel which is to be wielded at the general council sessions. He explained that many missionaries would have liked to ,be here, but not being able to be pre- sent they had sent pieces of Wood from all parts of their mission fields to be used in the head of the gavel. The handle was of Canadian silver and gold. A burst of applause followed this. "It means that every time a4 meet ing of this church is called te order it will mean a forward step in the great missionary enterprise," Rev. Dr. Pidgeon declared. On motion of Rev. Dr. C. W. Gor- don and Dr. MacKay, a cable of "triumphant congratulations" was ordered to be sent to the i.issiona- ries. -- Declaration Table. : The table on which the declara~ tion of union was signed, was for mally presented to the general coun- cil this afternoon by Rev. D. M. So- landt, on behalf of the publication branches of the afiliating denomina- tions. 'The signing of the roll by mems bers 'of the council was the business on the programme. Iu ¥ which they had represented prior the consummation of union, the delé- gates ascended the platform and af- fixed their signatures at three sep- arate tables. Former moderators: of the Presbyterian church were the first of their group to sign. Membership Figures. Figures which will be presented the general couacll give an approai- mate membership for the United Church of 692,838, made up of 12, 220 Congregationalists, 414,047 M thodists, and 266,111 Presbyterians. These are comprised in 174 congre- gational churches, 4,797 Methodist churches, and 3,835 Presbyterian churches. Ministers entering the new church are given as 3,819, betng 85 Congregationalists, 2,065 Metho- dists, and 1,669 Presbyterians. Add- ing 648 missionaries there is a total | ministerial force of 4.467. The to- tal Presbyterian membérship given as 374,951, of whom 108,840, ? bad | Joted againat union. Avardsd 5900 By dur I ous Gourt--The Case Arose Over Alleged Destruction of Small Bullding on Property i' nder Mortgage. After about one-half hour's dell- beration, the jury in the case of Tho- mas F. Badour William Com- modore, both of Sharbot _ Lake, brought in a verdict. in favor of the plaintiff for $300 in his suit for $500 damiages for false imprison ment and malicious prosecution. A. IL Revelle, who acted for the to remain in jail. He sad that the defendant had not consulted a . Eramanad 0 court a af