- |The Baily British Whi risoner JUANE WAGAR WAS WAITING TRANSFER TO PENITENTIARY pcre ot i Uo a Ladder to Get Over the North Wall-- Had Been Sentenced to Three Years Imprisonment for Stealiog From the Verona Post Duane Wagar, "of Buterprise, aged| Wagar aged enty-four years, who was confined the county jail, waiting removal to he Portsmouth penitentiary, to brve three years on the charge of bbbing the Verona post affice, made sensational getaway n Saturday orning when he se Ah® north all 4 oe ; made; 'his es- pe. ae From what | be learned: it is hought that was able to ake his the use of a dder which # ng used by the isoners inside the jail. Wagar was attired in civilian othes, pending the time for his re- oval to the penitentiary. It is derstood that the reason for him @ befng taken to the penitentiary diately after he was sentenced, as due to the faet that he refused || sign Papers to the effect that he puld not appeal against the sentence the trial judge. According pe month in which he can appeal. uring that time he is to be confined | , nil in the county where he is pnte { Was With Coal From what the Whig could learn Saturday morning, the prisoners, ho' are confined to the county jail, ere divided into two gangs. One ng was placed to work at shovel- pgsuow in front of the court house ings, while the other was en- 8d in unloading coal which had pen. delivered at the jail. Wagar with the coal gang, which, it is nderstood, was in ghd of the hlef turnkey. On it of the in- e gang being very sm the turn- bk was helping carry the conl when r made his ere painting the inside part of the. I. It is thought that Wagar car- ed the ladder out of the building pd placed it against the north wall. Although the authorities refused talk until such time as there is nvestigation, it. is thought that to}! plations, the prisoner is allowed|| Office. 'Wagar must have had some rope con- trivance to lower himself on the out- side of the wall. It is thought that Wagar was gone only about a couple of minutes when his absence was discovered, and the turnkey gave the alarm. The city po- Hee were notified, and headed by Joseph Hawkey, governor of the jail, they formed a search party. It {is thought that Wagar must have gone up Barrie street after getting over the wall. shipments to Chicago from the Can dian West during the last fe months of the year, the U.S. tra would have fallen off to a fraction its volume the year before, Testing Corn Borer Machine, On the farm of John Palmer, Tilbury in Kent, authorities ha | STARR PHONOGRAPHS AT LESS THAN COST We are offering the remainder of our stock of these famous Phono- graphs at really remarkable prices. There are full. sized cabinet models. It will pay you well to inves- tigate, Smrms Res ~ = RTE PLEADS GULTY A IS REMANDED Came Before. Judge La- vell--Will Be Sentenced Next Saturday. i -- . ©. Harte, formerly accountant owat Sanatorium, charged with falcations of the money of the pston Health Association, amount- g to $1,488, pleaded guilty, when appeared before Judge Lavell on dey morning. He will be sen- on Saturday, March 37th, at Mr. Day, counsel for Harte, took opportunity at the outset of his marks, to make clear the fact re- tution had been proposed by his : Mr. Harte had certain goods ich he thought he could realize t $600, sald Mr. Day, and he viling to to turn a money over ¥ tion. Also he a provision for A Dr. Hopkins, hil: ng of Philadelphia on charge of fraud in Day. He had heard tales of the money being spent on riotous living, but with these payments to meet and a family of four to provide for and with an income of only $170, Mr. Day did not think that the living had been very riotous. He was con- vinced that the motor car accounted for $800 of 'the missing money and when his client had found that he was in s0 deep and had decided to go away he had taken another $400, of which. $100 was given to his wife. That Mr .Harte had served in His Majesty's Forces for twenty years and that he had always been a man of standing in the community, was advanced by Mr. Day. when he asked that leniency be shown. --ee News In Condensed Form Off the Wires Pyromaniac who eluded police started fifteen fires in Brooklyn within a few blocks. Three Hungarians were sentenced at The Hague for circulating bogus ahd | ones in Holland, G. W. Disharoon was arrested at operation "of a divorce mill in Yuca- escaped--four white aud four col ored. ? tn quantities fo | poultry' from British Columbia 15 Improve, the native it nag not been for unusually heay KINGSTON, ONTARIO, Makes His Escape From the County Jail B Mr. Rasy Objects to Hasty Adjournment Of Legislature as re as Proposed by Premier Toronto, March 20--Before the Legislature yesterday afternoon, W. E. N. Sinclair, Liberal leader, ques- tioned Premier Ferguson as to how | long he expected the session to con- tinue. Mr. Sinclair expressed the opinion that the House should be able to complete its labors by Easter. "The Government has no desire to prolong the Session," stated Premier ! Ferguson. "If we can proceed with : a4 reasonable amount of speed we | should get through by Easter. Of course, a good deal will depend on orders of the day were called in the |the budget debate." Mr 'Raney thought there should t be any undue haste. "It does [ot look promising in the public ac- |counts committee," he stated. "Some lof us are carrying a very heavy load and should not be asked to work more than twelve hours a day. We sbould have as few night sessions as | possible. 'It we adjourn by Easter it will mean that\we have only sat seven weeks. Last' session the mem- {bers increased their indemnities and {it will'mot hurt to stay a week or two loner. " MR. LYONS DECLARED THERE WAS NO RISK Of Carrying on Business Through His Firm for the Ontario Government. Toronto, March 20.--Replying to { questions atked by W. BE. Raney, Progressive leader, James Lyons, former Minister of Lands and For. ests in the Ontario government, said at the meeting of the public ae- counts committee of the legislature last night, that his firm, the Lyons Fuel and Supply Company of Sault Ste. Marin, had supplied cement and gravel to McNamara Bros. for their contract in building a roadway on Wellington street, Sault Ste. Marie. The Provincial Government; through the Northern Development branch, which came under Mr. Lyons as Minister, provided por- tion of the cost of the road. - The total contract was $562,000 and the material supplied by thé Lyons firm amounted to $32,000. The Lyons firm also supplied roofing material, cement and steel sask for a new aerodrome in. Sault Ste. Marie. Mr. Fitzpatrick was the contractor and bought the material from the Lyons firm. The drone was built for © provincial governmient." " "Did you not see any risk as Min- ister of carrying on business through your firm for such companies?" ask- ed Mr. Raney. "A far as I was concerned, there was no risk. I won't let business in- fluence me," replied Mr. Lyons. ' Mr. Lyons said he knew that the Lebarge Company of Sudbury had secured a road contract by tender for $59,000 but had assigned or sublet it to McNamara Bros for a consideration, the amount of which Mr. Lyons did not know. Mr. Lyons sald he had absolutely had no know- ledge of any commission ever being paid. a cobtractor for buying his materials from certain people. Mr, Lyons read figures to show that his firm in Sault Ste. Marie sold goods to several retail hardware merchants in that city in the regular way of trade, and that some of these resold to the Northern Development branch of the Government. 'The committee will meet again Monday night when McNamara Bros. will give evidence. 3 CLARENCE SETTELL HAS BEEN PAROLED Former Secretary to Late Sir -Adam Beck Leaves the Penitentiary. Clatenco Settell, former yecretary to the late Sir Adam Beck, and who was serving a three-year sentence in Portsmouth penitentiary of the charge of theft, has been paroled, and left for Toronto on Saturday af- ternoon. Settell had dome about A short time ago his mother, who is eighty-two years of ot fifty French soldiers ambushed |age, | in Syria on March 15th, only eight Special conference will be held at the 5 | Geneva to study reservations under 3 which United States accepted world has begun to import pure: cage oral ef BACK TO THE NUDE MOVEMENT IN ART Thousands of Paris Exhibits Express Form Divine in All Its Varied Aspects. Paris, March 20.--The nude, which for several years has assumed soc- ondary place in the recognized salons of France, came back into its own in unmistakable fashion yesterday, when thousands of Parisians attend- ed the Varnissage Soclete Indepen- dent Artistes. Walking through the long, low framed building, where the exhibition - is housed on the out- skirts of Pauls, one easily gains the impression that at least half of the {4,000 pictures are expressions of the form divine in all of its varied as- pects, including the weird and re- pulsive. Literally this is not an accurate figire, but the fact remains that paintings of undraped women of all from every corner of the salon. Most of the 2,000 exhibiting artists seem- ed to hit upon the woman as the this year. CAPT. WILKINS LOSES His Flight Over the Arctic Waste Has Been Tompor= arily Delayed. Fairbanks, Alaska, March 20.-- The last of the three airplanes of Capt. H. Wilkins wis wrecked here yesterday when the landing gear of the Detroiter, a three-enginé ma- chine, buckled, throwing the plane on its mose. An engine was thrown out of tion and the propeller bent. The big plafie, which was be- ing started on its first test flight, had shot along the ground only about forty feet when the accident occurred. Captain Wilkins, who planned an air expedition to hunt for land in the Arctic region, and a trans-polar flight over the Arctic waste from Paint Barrow, Alaska, to Spitsber gen, originally started with two three motor airplanes and one single-engined machine. The smash- up 'temporarily delays the Wilkins party from proceeding on the ex- initial move. EMPLOYEE KILLED IN BEAVEDBOARD FACTORY His Hand and Head Were Drawn Into the Board 'Machine. Thorold, March 20. -- Suteph Rowan was killed 'at the verboard, factory nesr Thorold yesterday ting Ite board ages, colors and sizes glare at one ' best means of expressing their art] HIS THIRD AIRPLANE] pedition. Misfortune seemingly has . followed the Wilkins party from its] SATURDAY, MARCH -20, 1926. THE FOREIGN | SECRETARY T0 ~ MEET CRITICS hh the British Pirlanent on Tey let. A NOTABLE WELCOME Given Him by His Cabinet Col- leagues on His Return to Loaddn From Genera. London, March 20.--The Cabinet colleagues of Sir Austen Chamber- lain, Foreign Secretary,/made a spe- cial point of giving him a notable welcome when. he returned to Lon- don last night from the League of Nations meeting at Geneva. Most of them were at the station: to greet him, and mier Baldwin, yho was unable to be there, sent a special re- presentative, There was no dem- 'SIR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN, monstration on the part of the pub- He: On Tuesday Sir Austen will have to meet his critics in Parliament. Wext day he will attend a luncheon given by the city fathers at Guild Hall in honor 'ot his achievements at Lo- carno. The latter function, coming at the present time, is the subject of some ironic comments on the part of his critics. Sir Austen resisted all attempts to nterview him, merely remarking, "As I hear I am going to be executed on Tuesdav, I shall wait until I get to the scaffold before saying anything." RENFREW MINISTER DIES IN TORONTO Rev. R. J. M. Gl; 'Glassford Col= lapses on Street--Passes Away In Hospital. Toronto, March 20--Rev. R. J. M. Glassford, aged seventy, of Ren- frew, who has been attending the nieetings of the Board of Missions of the Presbyteriah Church, was walk- ing to lunch about 1.830 yesterday, when he took a weak spell and col- lapsed on the street opposite the City Hall, He was rushed to the Gen- eral Hospital, and passed away a couple of hours later, in the morning he appeared in his state of health, sete errensnniees > 4+ COMING TO CANADA ' FROM O1.D ENGLAND Liverpool, March 20.--The Canadian emigration season opened yesterday, when the steamers Antonia, Doric and Montrose left with some 5,000 intending settlers, A large proportion of this number took advantage of the scheme whereby they' were given transportation for £3. Several hundred farmers' sons from all part ;of the country were in- cluded in the contingent. PEPE 4204290022420 $4344 292 04500400044 CPP S2T 000 tres00 YOUTHS AND FLAPPERS ARE ABOVE RIDICULE But Parents Come in for Strong Denunciation by Bishop. New York, March 20 The youths and flappers of the present day were held above ridicule but their par- ents came in fof strong denuncia- tion by Bishop William T. Manning, in delivering a Lenten sermon in St, Thomas church here yesterday. Conceding that "we are living in a time of moral and spiritual up- bheaval, "the Bishop insisted that the peridd of jagz music, art, relig- fon and literature was approaching ite end. He sald "adults who patronize bootleggers must expect flask-toting youngsters in the coming genera- tion." BOURASSA EXPLAINS. Why He Did Not Sing the National Anthem. Ottawa, March 20.--The "'so- called singing' of the National An- them on the*night of March 2nd be- fore the iong adjournment of the House of Commons was again the | subject of a discussion ip the House yesterday. Hepri Bourassa (Independent, La- belle), who has been absent from the House for several days, rgse to a question of privilege. He referred to the explanation given in the House Thursday by J. 8. Woodsworth (Labor, Winnipeg North Centre) of Mr. Woodsworth's failure to stand while the National Anthem was sung in the House of Commons. Mr. Bourassa said he would g0 much further than Mr. Woodsworth had ventured. He was proud to say that he did not take part in the "so-call- ed singing" which members of the House of Commons "inflicted" upon eir confreres and anybody who happened to be in the gallery at the time of the vote. He would not pre- tend that he could distinguish the strains of the National Anthem from any other of the "drinking songs" which the "upholders of the dignity of Parliament" had perpetrated up- on the night in question. MUST STAY IN ASYLUM ------ Captain Pike, Murderer, Will Not be Deported. Ottawa, March 20---An effort to have Captain John Buchanan Pirie, who on October 1st, 1924, in a fit of despondency killed his: common faw wife, Caroline Freeland, and his two children, and who is serving - iife sentence as criminally insane at the Gpelph prison farm, deported to England in the near future, has been rejected by the Immigration 3 and Justice Departments. An application was made to the Immigration Department about a month ago, by persons interested in tke fate of Pirie, to have him deport- od to England under the provisions of the Immigration Act, the first section" of which provides that any immigrant who commits a criminal offense within the first five years of his residence in this country may be deported to the country of his origin. The application, however, was not entértained by the department, ow- HOUSE 10 0 INTO SUPPLY AGAIN MONDAY Commits s Re On oe he CLEVER LITTLE TRICK i Jo bei Si Described i Tag he on Thursday. Ottawa, March 20.--The House has again a committee of supply. Adoption by the House on Thursday . of the Drayton motion that the "chairman do leave the chair" re- sulted in a long argument over pro- cedure and a ruling by Speaker Lemieux. Hon. J. 'A. Robb, Minis- ter of Finance, moved at the open- | ing that the House go into supply on Monday--which in reality means Tuesday, as Monday is a private > member's day. Rt. _Hon. Arthur Meighen, Opposition leader, objected that the motion was not in order, but Speaker Lemieux decided against Mr. Meighen's contention, and the motion ge-creating the committee was adopted. Quoting May's parliamentary pro- cedare, Mr. Meighen contended that the effect of Thursday's vote had been to dissolve the committees of supply. Premier King asked "for the sake of enlightenment" what would be gained except delaying the business of the House by the present Opposi- tion proposal. Premier King described the bring- ing on of the vote as "a clever little trick," and stated that the Conser- vatives were waiting in their lobby for orders to come into, the House for the vote when it was known that many of the supporters of the Government were absent. . Mr. Meighen retorted that the Government sought to make a pre- cedent whenever it had an object to be served and the Opposition. merely sought to keep the proceedings of the House regular. Mr. Robb asked the Opposition to remember that the prevention eof smuggling, in which everybody was so interested just now, could not be possible if the Opposition was going to rule out every provision for this purpose. Hon. J. W. Edwards (Conservas tive, Frontenac-Addington) asked how much this Government had spent on prevention of smuggling out of the $350,000 voted by Parliament last session. Mr. Robb retorted that this year's programme was not affected by such a consideration, & Pi MONTREAL COLLECTOR TELLS OF TROUBLES Had Not Absolute Power or He z! Would Have. Improved 3 Customs Conditions. Ottawa, March 20.--For the great- er part of the eight years he has been - Collector of Customs at the port of Montreal, his experiences have forced him to think that he was "pot wanted there," William 8. Weldon, yesterday, told the customs oh The 'witness described how the Hon. Jacques Bureau, when Minister Fz dale: if