A 4 \ ; x The Daily British Whig ' KINGSTON, ONT., FRIDAY, CAPITOL Monday and Tuesday GLORIA SWANSON in "Madame Sans Gene" CAPITOL NOW SHOWING BLANCHE SWEET RONALD COLEMAN LEW CODY in "The Sporting Venus" WR --- I) YEAR 02; No. 172. Russell Scott Escaped Gallows For The Second Time Within A Week ANOTHER STAY OF EXECUTION [Fiteen-Year 0d Lad Bad DAYTON FIGHT "=n" NOW AGREED IN CASE OF RUSSELL SCOTT. | "en te Got Caught In Wheel of Horse Re ON THE NAVAL Tia Go Cag 10 BE TAKEN : ~ PENDING HEARING INTO SANITY PROGRAMME; clock on Thuredey sriermmms. Ber T0 CONGRESS Former Canadian Financier Twice Reprieved From Paying the Su- And Spectacular Fight Is Looked So Eads the Political Cris preme Penalty For Murder--Scott Declares That He Is Not Which Lok Serios. or Fila: Rule ~~ For On Evolution. .--Re -- EP iat : Rokrt ett 5 Pot. om, Mik MOST SETTLE THE ISSUE STATEMENT OF PREMIER badly mangled when he fell off a horse-rake he was driving that it had Chicago, July 24.--Russell Scott; where in a dimly-lighted courtroom, early to-day escaped the gallows for | the hearing was held. A little group JULY 24, 1925. . » LAST EDITION. Ld BOOSTING CANADA. London, July '24.--Frommne Canadian pavilion alone®at Wembley neat¥ two tons of lit- - erature with regard to Canada were distributed yesterday when 10,000 pupils of the schools here were guests of the corporation of London at the British Empire Exhibition. @ removed the leg by dislocation of the knge joint. On Friday morning he was resting easily. illiam Garrigan is making satis- factory progress at hi home at 3 Victoria Terrace, Montreal street. Mr. Garrigan, who is a steam-fitter, in the employ of Elliott Brothers, was working at the pew public lib- rary buildtig on Tuesday afternoon, when he fell and fractured a shoulder bone. He was treated by Dr. C. A. Morrison. y Roy Bell and Bates Jex, who were injured in an accident near Lans- downe Sunday might, continue to improve at the General Hospital, . Seber <* * + * * * * * * + * British Miners Will | Go On Strike on July 31st London, July 24.--A general strike of all British union coal miners will-dommence ly 31, the miners' executive decided at to be amputated at the knee. The youth is said to be subject to weak. spells. It is thought he got caught in the wheel of the rake. His leg was very badly bruised and his face and head also injured. Dr. Tovell, of Sydenham, attended him at the time and then brought him to the Kingston General Hospital Thursday evening, where Dr. Bogart & second time within a week. The former Canadian financier, twice reprieved from paying the su- preme penaity for the murder of a Chicago drug clerk, in a holdup, dodged the noose for a third time leas than four hours before he was to have been executed, when Judge Joseph B. David granted a stay of execution, pending a hearing into his sanity. A week ago, six hours before he was to hang, Governor Small grant- ed one week's reprieve, which ex- pired this morning. Judge David was called out of bed a few hours before the time for the execution, convened a special session of court, and granted a stay, after Governor Small and the state board of pardons and paroles last night at Springfield, refused further clem- ency. . This morning the gallow's trap, set for springing a week ago, stood without its victim, and the jail of- ficials who had left it standing dur- ing the week of grace, were consid- ering dismantling it. Sanity hearing will not come for several days. Beott's escape from death to-day, like that of a week ago, came after ' he and his relatives , had virtually abandoned hope. Thomas Scott, his father, had called at the jail three hours previously, to bid him the last farewell, his second visit in a week. Wife Fought Hard. Mrs. Cathewvine Scott, his faithful wife, who for weeks has fought to obtain commutation, played what she believed to be her final card in Springfield, where she appeared be- fore a pardon board, and when stay was granted, was rushing from Springfield to Chicago by auntomo- bile, to bid her husband farewell, al- most 'at the minute set for his ex- ecution. She arrived to find court action 'stopping hanging. Scott, who had been surly and defiant through- out "the night, and who apparently was completely resigned to his fate, received the news that his life was spared, at least temporarily, with 0 surprise. He had known nothing about the last minute appeal to courts. -- Scott Was Overjoyed. "I am tickled to death," were his words. Then upon learning that the stay had been granted to find sut whether he were sane, Scott add- "I am no more crazy than the who granted me a stay on that account. I am not asking for symipathy from any one either. I am {anocent." of newspaper men, judge, attorneys, Scott's friends and his aged father made up the gathering. signed by Scott's father, recited that the condemned man has become in- sane since his incarceration, fifteen months ago, in the county jail. Within twenty minutes from 'the time the court had been convened, stay of execution had been granted. George E. Gorman, who prosecut- ed Scott, when informed of the ac- tion said: "I have not a thing to say, except that they tried to fool the governor a week ago, and now they are trying to fool Judge David. We will fight it to the end. This man deserves the rope, and he will get it before we are through. Refused the Radio. One of the reasons assigned by Attorney Stewart, for believing Scott insane, was his refusal last night to broadcast by radio, an ap- peal to his brother, Robert Scott, in- dicted with him, but never appre- hended, to surrender and save him from the gallows. A microphone had been placed in Scott's cell, but he refused to utilize it. Mrs. Scott, driving madly toward Chicago, after ofice having become lost, was met by reporters" at the cutskirts of the city and was inform- ed of the court's action. "Thank God," she murmured, and was whisked on into town. -- Had Given Up Hope. Chicago, July 24.--Russell Scott, to-day, in his cell, told reporters that "I was about ten percent. guilty, and ninety per cent. innocent. The worst I did was to help my brother es- cape." Prisoner earlier had declared he was perfectly sane. In later in- terview, he said: "I do know that no man can spend nineteen months such as I have spent in jail and still be normal." He said he had given up all hope of living last night, but expressed be- lief to-day, that he would be saved. Judge David set the sanity hearing for August 3rd. -- A "Fake" Story. Chicago, July 24.--Report from Port Huron, Mich., that Robert Scott had beén there and was enroute to Chicago, has been found to be with- out foundation, Mrs. Isobel Hurst, of Detroit, declared to-day. ° Over Hundred Injured In a Movie Theatre A petition, & PP reP+ P0000 00 0000 CANADA'S FIRST SHOE. hed Kitchener, Ont., July 24.-- |* The close of the first day of the le fifth annual shoemakers' and |e repairers' convention being held [+ in this city was featured by a 4 largely attended banquet at which the necessity of expand- ing the organization into a do- minion and even an internation- al one was emphasized. Addresses were made by C. B. Budd, service manager of the Canadian Credit Men's Associa- tion, Toronto; A. W. E. O'Dell, Hamilton, general organizer of the Boot and Shoe Workers' Union, and by Oliver M. Brooks, Montreal, who informed the members that the first shoe was made in Canada, as far as is known, in 1667. The invitation from Niagara Falls to hold the next conven- tion in that city was accepted. PEPE FL PLC L PEEPLES D I PEIPIBP LILI S44 222 eee EPIC SPIPIOIPIOILIIIOLSY Fifteen Million For Members Wheat Pool According to an OMocial Winnipeg, July 24.--Fifteen mil- lion dollars will be paid to members of the inter-provincial wheat pool before August 1st, according to an official statement issued today by the president of the Canadian Co- operative Wheat Producers, Limit- ed. The second interim payment will amount to twenty cents a bu- shel, based on No. 0 whest, and brings the total already distributed to $1.55 a bushel on the 1924 crop. The statement intimates that the final instalment will be made some time next month. Due to volume of wheat received by the pool during receiit weeks, the 1924 pool was not closed until July 15th. Twenty cents a bushel will be paid on No. 1, 2, 8 and 4, northern; also.the toughs of these grades; 15 cents on No. §, tough 5, and reject- ed grades. No payment, the state] ment says, will be paid at this time on feed and such wheat graded re- jected, heated and condemned. Spreads on grades will be adjusted when. the final payment is made. ONTARIO HAS NO FEAR EVOLUTION TEACHING Restrictive Legislation Would Be "Silly," Says Attorney- General Nickle. ---- Toronto, July 34.--There is nothing in the statutes of the Province of Ontario to prevent teachers in pubMc or high schools or the professors in t e universities from teaching evo- lution. When asked today when he thought of the desirability of having legislation dlong these lines, Attorney-GeMeral Nickle said it was "too silly," adding, "I am in favor of freedom of thought and freedom of expres- sion." The duties of a public school teacher are set forth in clause 87 of the Public School Act, which contains the only refer- ence to religion. The clause provides that "it shall be the duty of every tea- cher to diligently and faithfully teach the subjects im the public school course of study as pre- scribed by the tions, to maintain proper onder and dis- cipline in the school. to" emcou~ rage pupils in the pursuit of learning, to inculcate by pre- cept and example respect for re- ligion and 'the principles of Christian morality and the highest regard for truth, jus- tice, loyalty, love of country and humanity, benevolence, so- briety, industry, frugality, pu- rity, temperance, and, all other virtues." ------ Salaries Threatened. Washington, July 24.--Trea- sury officials were ordered by a local court to show cause why the salaries of school officers here should not be withheld be- fuse of the teaching of scienti- fic doctrines alleged to reflect on the Bible. HON. DR. J. W. EDWARDS ELECTED GRAND MASTER NS Se ---- At the Annual Meeting of the . Orange Grand Lodge In Vancouver. Stated That Issue Will Not Hinge on Single State But of Nation. Washington, July 24.--The battle staged at Dayton between evolution end fundamentalism, which has held the country tense with interest, will be re-fought on the floors of Con- gress next winter, but in a much more. spectacular fashion, for hers the issue will not hinge on the deci- sion of a single state, but of a na- tion. A Realizing that Congress would, af- ter all, be forced to settle the issue of whether the teaching of evolution should be allowed in the public schools of the District of Columbia, or whether the fundamentalists should force the disputed books out of the curriculum, the officials of the district took steps today to ask for a dismissal of the action brought by Loren H. Wittner, the treasury clerk, whose §udden move so aston- ished them yesterday afternoon. Proof that Congress would be forced into dealing with the matter came when Representative Thomas A. Blanton, of Texas, ranking Demo- crat of the District of Columbia com- mittee of the House, and one of the most daring fighters in that body, said unequivocally that he expected to see enacted into permanent law the provision now in the district ap- propriation bill estopping. teach- ing of "disrespect to the. ar ble." : Representative Johtt W. Summers, author of the amendment embodying this clause, would certainly seek to drive it over as a law for all time, asserted Mr. Blanton and the Texan anticipated that the House would support the attempt by a large majority. Although both Wittner and the District of Columbia autho- rities seem determined to carry the case to the Supreme Court of 'the United States; if necessary, the opinion of legal experts and also rrecedent of the Supreme Court ap- peared to show definitely that the case could not reach that body, and that therefore another reason would be added why the task of solution would be laid at the door of Con- gress. Study of the congressional record reveals that the Summers amendment went through the House with practically no discussion on a Saturday afternoon in May, 1924, but Mr. Blanton laughed today at the idea that the amendment could be considered "a joker." But there is no doubt that when the Summers amendment comes up again next winter---as {it certainly a meeting here last night. The miners' executive in de- ciding to instruct the workers to quit their jobs July 31st, the date of the expiration of the present working agreement with the owners, provided for" the minimum number of "safe- ty men" to remain at work to prevent flooding or other dam- age to the mines, The United Church Has Laid Plans To Raise $4,000,000 Toronto, July 24.--The mainten- ance and extension fund committee of the United Church of Canada met | here yesterday, to consider a com- | prehensive united campaign in aid | of the funds of/the uniting churches. The financial 'objective set is four million dollars, $2,800,000 of which is for missions and social service. Embodied in the agenda was the | clause that the spiritual aims of the | church should always be kept in the forefront. Sir Joseph Flavelle convened the meeting, Messrs. W, B. Wood and William Hanson of Montreal at- tending, with all the Toronto mem- bers. The Party Will S8all on the Empress of Scotland on Saturday. London, July 24.--In connection with the coming visit to Canada of nearly 100 secondary school teach- ers, with a liberal sprinkling of educationists of a higher grade in the party, the bigger anticipations of the results of the widespread pub- licity favorable to the Dominion fol- lowing the visit are entertained here. The party will sail on the Empress of Scotland on Saturday. Included therein are the following: Cecil Jennings, under-sheriff and a mem- ber of a school committee of Lon- don; Dr. Stevens, headmaster of Westminister City School and presi- dent of the Headmasters' Associa- tion; Miss Rosa Harvery, principal of Penrhos College, Carnarvon, Wales; G. Coxhead, headmaster of Hinckley Grammar School; J. Hue- son, headmaster of Fowey School, Cornwall; Miss Esther Morgan, head-mistress of Glamorganshire are taken in hand at once it 400 D mn nancial Reform of Three Fighting Services, London, July 24.--The Prime Minister announced in the Com- mons yesterday afternoon, the Cabe inet's decision on the cruiser ques~ tion and laid down the regular ship. building programme. It is intended to lay down two cruisers fn Oe- tober, two more in February and three more annually after that. It is also intended to build annually ning destroyers and six submarines. This is considerably less than Baldwin's first government had de clared necessary two years ago, and the Premier explained the re- duction by saying: "We found nt impossible, in view of the peaceful outlook of the world and 'the ab- sence of any naval antagonism bes tween the great powers, very largely to modify the proposals adumbrated two years ago." Then, as he stated the particulars of the programme it was noted that he used the words "requirements for fleet replacement," thereby seeking to offset opposition by associating himself with the Admiralty's view that new cruisers were needed, not to strengthen the fleet, but to pre= serve it. The Admiralty have long contended that unless new units completely worn ou the new vessels for some months, the Government has thrown a sop to the economy party. And the real weight of the cost of buildings will not begin to be felt till next yedr. Not all the new cruisers would be of the full size of 10,000 tons permits ted under the Washington treaty, some being smaller and of a less expensive variety, but the Premier did not specify how many of which kind were in his find. He coupled with the announce- ment of the new vessels a statement that the Government was seriously undertaking financial reform of the three fighting services, and was ap- pointing a committee of three men, not connected with the administra tion to overhaul the expenditure on the navy, army and air force. So ends the political crisis which for a few days threatened seriously to embarrass the Government. No doubt if the Admiralty had not ob- tained the ships it demanded thers would have been the resignation of W. G. Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Beatty, the First Government Is Undertaking Fi- By postponing the laying down of on will--the attention of every mem- ber will be focussed upon it, the two sides of the question lining up as bitterly as in any debate in years. Because no attention what- ever was paid to the rider when it went through the Senate, the an- tagonisms and arguments there are expected, to be dramatic. There was an intimation today that Senator McKellar, of Tennessee, would back the amendment with the help of such Conservatives as Senators Willis and Fess, of Ohio, and Shep- pard of Texas. ™ Vo ne: Wee London, July 24.--The Canadian pavilion at Wembley was struck by lightning in the course of a violent thunderstorm at midnight last night. The damage is estimated at several hundreds pounds sterling. Lightning struck the northwest tower of the pavilion. The whole side of the tower was knocked out and the mass of debris went crash. ing through the skylight into the offices below. : Vancouver, July 24.--The Orange Grand Lodge of British America, in annual session here, elected the fol- lowing officers: Grand Master, Hon. Dr. J. W. Ed- wards, Kingston, Ont.; Deputy Grand Master, John Easton, Winnipeg; Grand Chaplain; Rev. F. C. Ward Whate, Toronto; Grand Secretary, William Lee, Toronto; Grand Treas- urer, Hon. J. Thompson, Toronto: Grand Marshal, Lieut.-Col. T. A. Kidd, Kingston, Ont. Dog Catcher Fined, Had No License Now Out of a Job Hamilton, July 24.--Fined three dollars for failing to have a dog license for his cocker spaniel, Wil- liam Tyler, Hamilton's official city dog catcher, in police court yester- day informed all n Sea Lord, and other prominent offi cials. Such an action on the ques tion which touches a subject so dear to the heart of the main section of the old Conservatives as the British navy, would have been a very severe blow to the prestige of see the party off on Saturday. Baldwin, in addition to the fact that - Bridgeman is at the moment the chief Government representative in OLD TRAVELLER handling the extremely delicate negotiations with the miners, ---------- After Blind Pigs. 4 Ottawa, July 24.--In an endeavor' to clean up the blind pigs and ques tionable resorts in Hull district, offi. cers of the Quebec Liquor Commise sion, since May 22nd, have laid a total of 93 informations against in. dividuals on charge of infractions of the Quebec Liquor Act. .So far over forty convictions have been re- istered and there are a number of warrants still to be executed. 3 -------------------------- Hon. Mr. Stewart Bereaved. Weyburn, Sask., July 24. neral of Mrs, Ca! | mother of Hon. Charles Minister of the Interior, took yesterday afternoon. The Mrs. Stewart, who was in year, took place on ! County School, Wales, and Miss Mar- garet Neill, Sheffield University. Rev. Canon Cody, Toronto, former Minister of Bducation for the Pro- vincé of Ontario, who has been in London for some time, and several other prominent educationlsts, will A telephone message was received early to-day from Port Huron, Mich., that Robert Scott, brother Russell Scott, was in that city, ill. The call, received by Mra. Isobel J. Hurst, a Detroit i t Melbourne, Australia, July 24.-- One hundred and thirteen persons were injured, some of them serious- ly, when a verandah of a moving picture theatre collapsed, during a parade of sailors of the visiting United States fleet here to-day. No one was killed. Workman Was Injured > In a Factory At Norwood Norwood, July 24.--Serious {n- juries were sustained by William Clark,~a machinist, when he was caught in a belt and whirled around a shaft, while fitting up a temporary pulley on a line shaft, in a factory here to-day. Both Clark's legs were broken, his right arm lacerated, and he was badly crushed and bruised about the body. His chances of re- covery are doubtful. ------------ Big Fire Raging. London, July 24.--An exchange telegraph agency message states that a great fire is raging in New- harbor of Odense, Denmark. Four warehouses and number of ships are in danger. Thousands of tons of grain are burning. Military forces have been called out. » came here to work was made by Mrs. said that Scott was at : 'While officials here fear- that the call might be another TOR police started an FINANCE MINISTER July 24.--Robert at the home of a Mrs. . Port Huron police call- ed on Mrs. Manley following the notitication from Chicago, that Mrs. had called Chicago people on hone and had stated that ott was at her house. New York, July 24.---Koodratali, a Hindu, hi The difficult task of n | Italy's finances mow als pon hs shoulders of Count Guiseppe {the mew Italian minister of finance. He will soon come to Amertes. to st- Apt. a settlement of the Italian debt to the United States. Ege ci T1ERE,