Daily British Whig (1850), 18 Jul 1925, p. 1

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CAPITOL NOW SHOWING ZANE GREY'S Code of the West yr 3 y p 2 p p y ; ' CAPITOL MONDAY, TUESDAY "THE LITTLE FRENCH GIRL" the YEAR 92; No. 167. KINGSTON, ONT., SATURDAY, British ® JULY 18, 1935. Whig 1 VIGOROUS CAMPAIGN T0 SAVE SCOTT To Be Waged Next Week By h- terests in Ontario. MYSTERIOUS TELEGRAN Not Yet ed---If Brother Does tim Up Scott Goes to Gallows. Chicago, July 18.--Powerful Can- adian interests were severely cen- sured fn a statement issued by George BE. Gorman, chief assistant states attorney here, in connection with the seven-day reprieve secured by Russell Scott, just six hours be- fore he was to be hanged. = "I have definite informatioi-that powerful Ontario interests have rals- ed $10,000 to sa¥e Scott's life, and that they will wage a vigorous cam- paign during the next week," he said. "I have asked Detroit police to in- vestigate the telegram sent and find out just who sent it. If he is not Ro- bert Scott, I shall lodge charges against him in federal court. I am asking particularly 'that - they: find whether the message came from Can- ada or not." In the week allowed them, Scott's 'sttorneys and relatives plan to wage & fierce eampaign. The older Scott, father of the condemned man, has advised attorneys that two im- portant prosecution witnesses are Field Marshal Haig Opens Jasper Lodge Golf Course Jasper Park, Alta., July 18, .~~Field Marshal Earl Haig yes- terday afternoon officially opened the new 18-hole golf course at Jasper Lodge by driv ing a perfect shot far down the fairway from the first tee. Lady Halg then performed the cere- mony on behalf of the ladies. Her drive was one of the long- est ever made on the course a magnificient shot which land- ed only a few feet short of that made by the field marshal TY COBB SUSPENDED. Folloying An Argument Over Strike Called on a Catcher. Detroit, July 18.--Tyrus "Ty" Cobb, manager and centre fielder of the Detroit Tigers, was indo- finitely suspended Friday by Presi- dent Ban Johnson of the American League. The suspension came as the re- sult of an argument with Umpire Rowland in the tenth inning of Friday's game with Washington. Cobb protested a strike on Woodall and was ordered from the field af- ter a short argument, the quarrel being renewed after the game. Cobb will direct the destinies of the team from the stands until his sus- pension is lifted. Death Wins In Race With Train Which W. Bese of rine » PREMIER KING GIVEN PRAISE FOR EFFORTS Of His Government In Dealing With Smugglers. DEALERS _ APPRECIATE The Vote of Money to Enable Preventive Service to Cope With Mlegal Traffic. Ottawa, July 18.-- Appreciation of the action of the government in se- curing | legislation {increasing the penalties for smuggling goods into Canada and in voting money to en- able the preventive se "to cope with the a is con- tained in a letter from O. B. Gundy, president, Toronto board of trade, to Premier King. Mr. Gundy, in his letter, refers to the work of the Commercial Protec- tive Association and the co-opera- tion given to the assoclation by gov- ernment officials. "We have been in close touch with the association's work," states the letter, "and it has been a great pleasure for this board to learn that the government has co-operated to the fullest extent, with the result that adequate ma- chinery to deal with the smuggling menace will, we understand, shortly be in operation. We are informed the fact that the new penalties are already in force has had a deterrent LOOKING AROUND Evidently the youngsters om Col- lege street have been reading the "Out Our Way" cartoons in the Whig about that little bunch of kids playing circus, judging by the per- formance they gave on Wednesday last. The Old Home Week commit- tee might engage this College street troupe for performances the first week of August. This morning the writer met a Pittsburg resident loaded down with pails. When he asked what the pails were for, the Pittsburger in- formed him that the rain of Thurs. day had fast ripened the raspberries and he wanted to do & good picking before the folks came to church Sun- day or he might not reap the berry harvest he had anticipated. His place of residence is msar a church. NEW EFFORT AT SETTLING NS. STRIKE Premier Rhodes and Minister Go ing to Cape Breton. 'CONFERENCE ARRANGED A Joint Meeting of Misers and y Officials is Expect- ) on Tuesday. Halifax, July 18.--The first steps to be taken by the new Conservative Government in Nova Scotia toward # A rural item the other day tolq | reaching a settlement of the dispute about the presentation of an organ to a mother. One thought the day of the little parlor organ had gone by, but we love to #ead that there are still some old«f#shioned folks alive who like to sit round and sing the old psalms and Bymné to organ accompaniment. Probably in many a country home the organ is still an Cc between the British Empire Steel orporation and its coal miners, which has kept twelve thousand men on strike since last March, when they walked out following a wage dis- agreement, were effected yesterday, according to a statement from the provincial building Friday issued fternoon, announcing that Premier E. N. Rhodes and Col. Harrington, the Minister of Public Works ornament in the parlor, instead ol an d Mines would arrive in Capo the gramophone and piano. We are not all modernists. = The diet of the Toronto jail is again under debate as it is giving a kind of itch ta some prisoners. There is no such trouble in King- ston's jail, where the inmates are no doubt better cared for. In prisons it is perhaps impossible to meet the Breton . Monday morning and open conferences with the heads of the steel company and the United Mine | Workers of America, District 286. Hon. E. N. Rhodes, premier of Nova Scotia, issued the statement following Friday: "After con- ferences with Roy Wolvin, president, and J. E. McLurg, vice-president of the British Empire Steel Corpora- Denies Right of Any Nation To Annex the Polar Area Berlin, July 18.--Discussing the. rightful ownership of the North Pole, Dr. O. Loening, a well-known German jurist, de- nies the right to Canada or any other country to annex the polar area, in view of the impossibil- ity of establishing anything like permanent settlements in those extreme northern latitudes. A claim would not be recognized by other countries, he said, as it would be absolutely contra- dictory to international law, Fishing Improving As Season Advances Watertown, July 18.--Fishing of both' commercial and game fish is improving rapidly in Lake Ontario. Reports upon the status of bass angling have been made by local nimrods, and while they aver that fish are biting better than early in the season, all agree that bass are small this summer, Claude W. Cole, Cape Vincent, owner of the Main Duck islands and one of the largest commercial fisher- men on the river, in the ¢ity to-day en business, stated that catches of lake trout, .white fish and varieties handled by the commercial netters, | is considerably improved. Mr. Cole's steamer, C. A. Cole, brought in four tons of fish to the Booth station at Cape Vincent on her last trip a few days ago. Fumes. of Acid Cause a Death | MINERS WILL STAND FIRM In the Effort to Achieve Objects of Threatened Strike. MEDIATION _ PROCEEDS: Scarborough, Eng., July 15.--It is in an unsettled situation that the miners find themselves at the an nual conference of the Miners' Feds eration. When the conference opened it was realized that half of the ex- ecutive members had to leave for London to attend a conference there with other unions of the proposed new Labor Alliance, and the attention of other leaders of the miners is being distracted by negotiations with W. C. Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, who is acting as mediator in behalf of the Government in an effort to prevent the threatened strike. Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in a speech Thursday night expressed the conviction that a solution of the difficulty between the miners and the mine owners over wages would be reached, and he sald it would be a disaster if any agreement were not arrived at. A similar spirit of hopefulness marked to-day's conference of the miners in Toronto. Toronto, July 18.--The Grim Reaper won in a race with a special train which Mrs. E. Y. Baton of To- ronto chartered at Quebec yesterday to bear her to the bedside of her dying mother, Mra. Sarah Echardt. Mrs. Eaton's train waited with stedm up, according to despatches, for the arrival of the ocean steamer which brought her from overseas. The train arrived in this city too Iate, however, for the mother, who | was of quite advanced age, died yestetdiy aftdriioo tion, here, they having been in touch with Mr. McLeod, president of the United Mine Workers of America, District 26, Glace Bay, by telegraph, I have arranged to arrive in Sydney Monday forenoon, accompanied by Colonel Harrington, Minister of Pub- |lic Works and Mines. As soon as | possible after our arrival we expect to have conferences with Mw» Mec- Leod and the executive officers of the United Mine Workers, and it is anticipated that joint conferences be- tween representatives of the com- pany and the United Mine Workers ] may be arranged to take place Tues- day morning, Mr. Wolvin and Mr. McLurg representing the company, and Mr. J. W. McLeod representing effect upon the trafic. "We congratulate and thank you for your efforts in the solution of this problem and assure you of the continued co-operation and support of this board in curtailing the smug- gling trafic with the aid of the new powers now available." A FRUIT COMBINE IN .. EAST IS ALLEGED Lewis Duncan, Toronto, le Ap- pointed to Conduct an here, but the miners' reluctance to make sacrifices in order to bring about a settlement of the dispute Was very pronounced. ; A Somerset delegate, J. Swift, sald: "We may have to go through Gethsemane, but whatever the com- Sequgnces may be, we are resolutely determined to achieve our objects. Frank Hodges, Civil Lord of the Admiralty in the late Labor Gove ernment, speaking for the individual tastes of the prisoners, but it ought to be done to the ex- tent of not requiring them to eat foods that make them suffer. It is well known that some people can- not eat an oatmeal diet or even strawberries without breaking out in a miserable rash. It should be the duty of the jail physicians to help in this matter. troubled by qualms of conscience, and will recapt on their testimony. efforts to find Robert will be made, too. Further action to save Russell Scott from Hanging will depend en- tirely upon the appearance of his brother, Robert Scott, in Chicago, it WAS dnnounced * by © wftaches In Governor Small's office to-day. Offi- clals of the state are still uncertain whether someone plaved a ghastly joke by sending the mysterious tele- . gram from Detroit which saved Rus. well | a - Should Robert Scott appear in Chicago and give himself up, the against Russell will be sus- pierre oronto or Under Arrest. Toronto, July 18.---Benjamin Winerip, aged thirty-five years, fis dead and Mrs, Catherine Frost, Les- lie Frost, aged nineteen, Mrs. Martha Altchison, Mrs. Wilda Reid and Miss Evelyn Reid are' sariously ill from inhaling 'acid fumes used in fumi- gating an adjoining house at 82 Me-|. Gill street. The victims lived on either sidé of the building, which had been fumigated. The tenants of the house PE a tone drivers observe the laws. There may be lots of speeding and cars without lights, but they can see only a limit- n at Gi Nome her son, H. P, Bekardt. The death of Mrs. Eckardt, who was a widow, removes the maternal head of ome sentence pended pending the outcome of Ro- bert's trial. If Robert does not ap- pear in Chicago to surrender himself no further efforts will be made by the state to save Russell from the gallows. GREAT WHEAT CROP IF THERE IS No RUST the ba With Very Toronto, July 18.--If the wheat escapes rust, J. J. Morrison, secre- tary of the U. F. O.,, belleves that Western Canada is due for one of the greatest crops in its history. From a conference in Winnipeg, at which he in touch with agrarian leaders. from every province, Mr. Morrison returned to the city ye terday and brought back very optimistic reports on the crop out- look. One great danger, he sald, was rust and conditions unfortunately were favorable for its develop ment. fe Family Market Basket Fresh vegetables and fruit, spring were anything from $1.40 chickens to 81.75 a pair. Young ducks} | brought $1 and a good-sized tur- 'key wageolfered for $3. Butter sold| of the city's oldest and best known families. EQUI + ABLE TAXATION FOR THE HIGHWAYS And Dus. Problem io Be Dis- cussed at Canadian Good Roads Convention. Quebec, July 18.--Good progress has been made by the programme committee of the Canadian Good Roads convention in the selection of subjects to be dealt with at the an- nual convention, which will take place at the Chateau Frontenac, Quebec City, on September 22nd, 23rd and 24th. The matters to be dis- cussed cover various phases of highway work, from engineering problems to ratepayers' burdens, and men well versed in such subjects have promised to give of their know- ledge to the municipal delegates who will assemble in September from all over the Dominion for the con- vention. One of the most important papers to be discussed at the convention will be that of "Equitable Taxation for Highways," which will be pre- sented by 8. L. Squire, Deputy Min- ister of Highways for Ontario, who { has been a close student of matters affecting improved highways and their cost for many years. The dis- cussion on this subject will be open- ed by H. 8. Carpenter, Deputy Min- ister of Highways for Saskatchewan. Investigation. -- Ottawa, July 18. -- The existence of a combine "with reference to the sale of fruits and vegetables through wholesale commission houses in Ontario and Eastern Canada," has been reported to the Department of Labor, and an investigation under the Combines Investigation Act will take place. Lewis Duncan, of To- ronto, who recently made a report under the Combines Investigation Act, declaring the existence of a large fruit combine in British Co- lumbia and the prairie provinces, which was operating detrimentally to the interests of the Canadian public, has been appointed to Ton- duct the investigation into the al- leged eastern combine. Prosecutions based on the last Duncan report are being now launched in the west under the direction of the federal Government. Under the act, before an investi. gation can take place into an alleged combine, a complaint must be filed by six residents of Canada who are British subjects. The complaint in this latest case comes from fruit and vegetable growers in the east. SHALL ALBERTA TOWN DESTROYED BY FIRE Three Hundred Inhabitants Are Homeless--Flames Fanned by a Qale. Calgary, Alta, July 18.--Fanned by the fury of a north-west gale, fire on night practically wiped out the whole town of Bowden, be- ed number on their beats. Probably it the city had a special speed cop he would pay his salary in the addi- tional fines that he would collect from violators. We have heard so much about the new beer that is being given to the public by the Ontario Government, that it is restful to have a change of topic and hear that the city's water is. a little off color as to taste. The Queen's bacteriologist, who ex- amines the water daily, says the sup- ply is quite safe, but admits that the. taste may be a little out of the ordinary in hot weather. Some peo- ple are adepts at tasting, while oth- ers drink the same water and find nothing out of the ordinary. u Cc The deluge of Thursday gave ad- ditional assurance of good crops. When rain comes during the first fortnight of July there is little chance of growth being retarded by later droughts. . They say that the prisoners in the Portsmouth penitentfary are now singing "Comin' Through the Rye" after viewing the fine rye fleld on the prison farm, The registration at Queey's sum- mer echool is now nearing 530 and the outbreak the U.M.W., together with the Pre- mier and Minister of Public Works and Mines. "Both parties to the dispute have signified their intention to cordially co-operate." The provincial police, numbering pwards of one hundred men, were ordered withdrawn from Cape Bre- ton, and disbanded, by order-in-coun- cil Friday afternoon. The police wera ordered to the strike area following of rioting amongst striking miners early in June, Major urrie, in command of the police, re- ceived instructions to return the men to Halifax immediately to be dis- 'banded. Maintenance Work. Glace Bay, N.S., July 18.--Main- tenance work is progressing at all collieries in the Cape Breton coal mining areas and it is understood that in most of the pits coal could be hoisted with very short notice' Three small blazes were reported in the Glace Bay district during the past twenty-four hours, but all were extinguished before doing any dam- age. The company Waterford was said to have been en- tered yesterday morning and some goods stolen. | store at New Brant council will have to pay $900 for nine thousand groundhog tails as a fesult of the campaign in- augurated this year. Maritime provinces engage rates U. 8. Customs officers active fin Canadas becttuse of border rum-run- ning. ~ fumigated had been warned to leave the premises. People in houses at either side, it is alleged, were not informed of the deadly poison being used in the place. James Hills, fumigator, is under arrest on a charge of criminal negligence. HEAT WAVE IN WEST, British Columbia and Western Al- > 'Derta Sizzling. ~<Winnipeg, July 18.--The second heat wave within ten days is rapidly spreading from the Rocky Mountains over the prairie provinces, according to reports from the Dominion Me- terological Bureau here. British Columbia and western por- tions of Alberta were sizzling, with Grand Forks, B.C., heading the list of high temperatures, 101 degrees in the shade being recorded. McLeod and Drumheller, Alberta, were run- ning a close race with respective readings of 99 and 98. In Saskatchewan and Manitoba moderate conditions generally pre- valled, with prospects of higher temperatures to-morrow. The west is still urgently in need of rain. -- United States customs officers at the Falls inspected a car labelled "cement and iron castings" and found $10,000 worth of ale snd $20,000 worth of alcohol. Louise Taylor, colored, Hamilton, pleaded not guilty to the charge of murdering her husband. The fa- to reports received the fall wheat crop in Kent will be bo- low the average. Spring grains will Woman Loses $12,000 Jewellery in Jump ther of the dead man is paying her expert to prepdre argument for econ- | expenses. Een) mines in the United Kingdom. LAURIER'S LIBRARY BOUGHT FOR CANADA sents It to the Dominion Government. Ottawa, July 18. -- Bir Lester HAMmswarth has purchased Sir Wil urier's library and presentad it to the Canadian Government. ' valuable collection was through the efforts of Dr: Doughty, Dominion 'archivist, and will be placed in the Northeliffe collection which now occupies a large room in the new archives building. ! Sir Wilfrid Laurier's library tains one of the finest collections | Canadian historical works that is and portunity to add to his library dealing with the political 4 ment of the Dominion. Bir Lester Harmsworth, brother of the late Lord Ni was always greatly interested Canadian affairs and spent 1 From Blazing Motorboat Near Clayton, N.Y. coz. 5 Clayton, N.Y. July 18.--Mrs. I.

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