« Fs 4 © by Mrs. H. A. Malcolmson, Hamilton, - waxed heated at times, and humor- ,ous at others, One delegate to the toy ving at 127 Colborne street, should be selected by the executive was shouted grounds | sailing was made _ she wad "busybody," 'BARRED FROM 1.0.D.E. TO- DAY 1 Doug. Fairbanks in DON Q. Aad Adri ' * YEAR 08; No. 04. ven Free Trade Will Not Stop the F ord City Motor Plant Operating | GOVERNMENT NOT AVERSE T0 TAKING UP THE Bho to Maintain Law and Order, Declares Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Home Secretary, in Speaking About Use of Troops in Trade Disputes. London, April 22. --8ir William Joynson-Hicks, Homg Secretary, in closing the debate in\ the "House of Commons last night on a clause pro- posed by the Labor side of the House, amending the Army and Air | Force bill by prohibiting the use of | p ps in connection with trade dis- tes, except when a proclamation was issued declaring that a state of | jamergency existed, alluded to ber for North Battersea. "If. the honorable member, Sak- latvala, or any othér person inside or outside of this House," said the Home Secretary, "thinks the time has come to challenge the right of this democratic Government to main- fo te FOR BEING BUSYBODY Declared by Members That Blackballing Is Used In Woman's Order. Hamilton, April 22 -- Blackball- is used in the 1.0.D.E. to exclude posed members, it was stated at ast night's meeting of-the Provin- <¢ial Chapter. The discussion, raised convention declared that she had been present when blackballs against proposed member had been count- The suggestion that members down, on the ities should not enter ,D.B. elections. One woman from the Order because a Toronto re- gent - dSclared. In. a ar to this, Ag ma McVean, Dresden, as- that she had never seen a y"' who was not a "'crack- ug good worker." Airmen Picked Up ing bt 1 Sn «Lisbon, April 22.--The Por- . tuguese naval aviators, Lieuts. oreira and Never Terriera, ising since Tuesday, when " they began a flight to Madeira and Agores, have been picked up, together with their plane, o a fishing boat, says a mes- sage received to-day. The air- men are sald to be Injured. They are being taken to Ma- i delra. a : NG BOY SUFFERS FRACTURE OF SKULL He Falls Off Motor Truck While Abin, a Ride to vt ---- Bvan Mundkton, a seven-year-old fell off a motor 'truck Thursday morning shortly before mine o'clock | suffered a fracture of the skull. eyor was called 14 sive 'had the lad 8. Saklatvala, Indian Communist mem-] Ontario Will Not Join CHALLENGE (tain law and order he will find the Governngent not averse to taking up the challenge." The Home Secretary's referénce | to 8 challenge was in connection with" | a speech made by Saklatvala in the House a week ago when he stated that the army and navy were of- "ot the factory at Ford City. Tarif For His Hoary Ford Says He Does Not Want High Canadian Motor Plant "I am a free trader," to ask me that," he continued. "Mr. would continue' to operate, and it is ter off under free trade, trader; that's all there is to say." "You can rest assured these men the department superintendents. than protected by a high tariff. Windsor, April 22.--Henry Ford, Detroit attomobile magnate, yes- terday dealt a hefty blow at high tariff to protect his Canadian industry, when he said during a brief interylew at the Walkerville Ferry dock that the plant in Ford City would run better under free trade. Mr. Ford said. "It was not necessary for you Campbell said the Canadian factory my belief the factory would be bet- I am a free Mr. Ford spent the best part of the day in conference with officials He inspected every department of the plant, balting at some parts of the huge factory to chat with the workmen. will be kept at work," he told one of ficered by the capitalist class and | were used only in the interésts of | capitalists. | "The only way," Saklatvala de- | clared on that occasion, "is to break | the law." In the course of last night's de- bate, Lieut.-Col. Sir Allan Burgoyne, Conservative, produced a sheaf of | leaflets alleged .to have been eir-| culated with a view to undermining | the loyalty of the troops. ICE HALTS OPENING OF THE GREAT LAKES Season Latest for Many Years ~-First Salling Likely Around May 6. | | | { | { tween Great Lakes ports will in all probability be delayed until towards the second week of May, according to McD. Duff, general manager of the Canadian Pacific Great Lakes services Interviewed here yester- day. "Thunder Bay, Whitefish = Bay and the Sault are still frozen up and there is considerable ice in all the harbors," he said. "This season Is the latest for a great many years," Mr. Duff added. "Last year dhe : year the first sailing will. probably be that of the 8.8. Manitoba, which is scheduled to clear Fort William for Owen Sound May 6th." "Freight for lake and rail ship- ment through Port MeNicoll will Aow be accepted subject to delay, and for shipment through Owen Sound, April 23rd. "Steamers have already been con- fitioned," Mr. Duff concluded, "and will commence operation upon re- ceipt of favorable ice reports." In Federal Farm Loan Toronto, April 22.--Hon. W. Price, provincial treasurer, 'stat that it is quite unlikely that Ontarfo will partiéipate in the Dominion ernment's farm-loan scheme, " That the province would gain ing by euch participation, is Price's contention. Toronto, April 23---Two manufacturers of motor 'r parts from all over Ontario = met! in the King Edward Hotel yesterday after- noon to consider all aspects of the industrial situation in the Province caused by the King Government's tariff charges. They entered fa strong protest against the auto tariff reduc- tion. Another Calcutta Calcutta, April 22.--Two | Moslems were killed and thirteen ured to- day in a conflict with the p fol- lowing a riot between M and Hindus. Toronto, Apeil 22.--Sailings be- | Canad mm, Thef plans and specifications of the nw Randolph Hotel which is to! be bufilt on the north-east corner of | Pringess and Bagot streets, have beery completed by Mr. Colin Drever, the, architect, and tenders on the mejchanical trades are being called for immediately. /The whole of the new Randolph otel, which 1s to include part of the resent building, will be of the best ire-proof construction and modern and up-to-date in every respect. It will stand six storeys high and will be constructed of cut stone and pressed brick. The general scheme is the enlargement of the present building around the Bagot street corner. 'When completed the hotel will be quite as fine as:any to be found in an Ontario city with the same population as Kingston. The new main building fronts on Bagot steet, and the kitchen or ser- vice wing is in the rear of this main bullding, and adjoining the present hotel rear wing. The basement of the few hotel building consists of boiler room, fuel room, laundry, and the several storages required in connection with the kitchen department. The first floor has a large main entrance off Bagot street, entering into a specious lobby with office and manager's room .and vault adjoin- ing. To the Mrincess street end of the building is a large lounge space or rotunda, the ceiling. of which goes up two floors. The dining room is to the Queen street end of the building, size of which is 37 feet by 63 feet, and the ceiling goes up two floors. Adjoining the lobby and office is the main staircase with passenger emt on Man Goes to Jai To Escape' nsistent Girl London, Ont, April 22 (Canadian Press).--Police Mag- istrate Graydon remanded to jail for a week a young Lon- done who had voluntarily sought the shelter of Police Headquarters to save him from "a young woman. The Londoner entered the station at midnight, declaring that the girl was so insistent upon marrying him that he could not evade her. He was convinced that his only safety would be in having bars between him and his lady love. When told that she could not be arrested for loving him he pleaded to be locked up him- self. He argued thai he was flat broke and could nat afford his wedding, but the fact did not cool the ardor of his fried. OSHAWA'S DEPUTATION READY FOR OTTAWA To Meet the Oabinet at Noon Friday Over Auto Yom y be to ony the case of the Govern- ment when the huge delegation from Oshawa, Toronto and other cities ar- rives in Ottawa tomorrow to protest against the reduction of duties on motor cars and parts, Gordon D. Conant, one of the active organi- zers of the protest, announced this morning. The delegation, number- ing about 2,500, will present - the case to the cabinet at noon to-mor- row. It will hold a meeting in the Keith 'theatre, Ottawa, at ten o'- clock to-morrow to decide on speak- ers and other details. NO AGREEMENT YET OVER FRENCH DEBT us. Secretary ry of ¢ the Treasury Mellon Makes This An« nouncement.. 'Washington, April 22.--The statement made yesterday by Pre- mier Briand of France that a debt settlement agreement between ¥rance and United States had practi- cally been reached, is not confirmed here. "There can be no agreement until the debt commission passes upon any offer that the French may wish to make, and nothing has yet been sub- mitted," declared Secretary Mellon of the Treasury to-day. and freight elevators, and connect ing from this staircase and elevator hall is an 8 foot corridor with a cut stone entrance from : Princess street, To the rear of the main building NEW MYSTERY IN SMUGGLING BY A WOMAN Seizare of Silk Gowns Led to Police Withdrawal CONMITTE IS BAFFLED Unexplained Testimony---At- tempted Bribery Reported. Ottawa, April 22.--Why seizure of three trunks full of smuggled silk gowns, brought by a Parisian mo- diste into a Quebec hotel in October, 1923, should be magnified by the powers that be into a reason withdrawing the Royal Canadian Mounted Police from anti-smuggling work in the port and district of Quebec, is the mystery around which the Stevens committee skated all yesterday afternoon and was still en- circling when the customs probe ad- journed. On the surface, the whole affair was very common-place. Mlle. Den- ise Larde, representative of an ex- clusive . Paris dress atelier, was caught with the goods, which she valued at 72,000 francs. She plead- ed guilty to possessing merchandise on which the duty had not been paid, was fined $50 and finally got her goods on a deposit of $1,600, Ot- tawa taking the view that it would be unfair for her employers to be mulcted of the precious cargo be- cause of a crime for which they per- sonally were not responajhle. All Kinds of Mysteries. There are the bald facts. Behind those facts were all kinds of myste: ries which the committee, so far, haw been baffled in endeavoring fathom. First of all, the Parisienne promised to bribe a customs officer on the liner carrying her to Quebec. Then, that customs officer swears, the senior customs examiner order- ed him to pass the trunks without examination because of a ""memoran- dum from Ottawa' which be had. There was mention of a letter re- questing the senior officer to "facili- tate" passage of the baggage. The senior himself heightened the mys- tery by flatly denying he had order- ed the trunks passed unopened and laid on his junior the blame for not having examined them and reported to him. After the seizure, too, a sers geant of the R.C.M.P. declared both . Larde and her counsel intimat- it would be better for him if he released the gowns; this the counsel 'ater denied. With all this unexplained testi- mony and the mass of contradictions, the committee gave up for the day and will meet to-day to try and tind out whether the Royal Canadian Mounted Police blunderéd grievous- ly or whether Mlle. Larde, wanted, now as a witness, but reported to be in France, was such important personage that, in trapping her, the Mounties trod on some even more important person's toes. PONZI GIVEN ONE YEAR "Financial Wizard" Has 60 Days to Fla, April 22 "financial wisard," Jacksonvill for { VISCOUNT WILLINGDON Who will at least receive the offer of the Governor-Generalship of Canada. FINISH ROUYN LINE BY END OF THE YEAR The Annual Rep Report of the C.N.R. Refers to the Project. Ottawa, April 22.--The annual re- port of the Canadian National Raill- ways, tabled in the House yesterday, made this reference to the Rouyn line: Oa "The management and operation of a 45-mile line of railway from O'Brien on the National Transcon- tinental Railway in a generally southerly direction into the Rouyn district has been entrusted to the Canadian National Railways Com- pany by the Dominion Government, which has itself taken a lease of the Hine. Construction has been pro- ceeding steadily through the winter and will, it is believed, be completed by the end of the year. In view of the expectation that the Rouyn district will become 'an important mining centre, it is expected that considerable traffic will result to the hyd National Railways and that the ter- ritory adjacent to the line, much of which is suitable for agricultural purposes, hia be developed." FIRES AT THE WOMAN HER FATHER WEDDED Montreal Young Woman Did Not Like Her Papa Marry- ing Again. Montreal, April 22--To emphasize her objection to her father taking another wife, Mrs. Rosa Bergeron, aged twenty-three, today visited her father's home and shot point blank at her new stepmother, Mrs. Alexia Saumur, the bullet just grasing the women's head and leaving powder marks on the forehead. Mr. Saumur grabbed his daughter, and her her till the police arrived. She had a sec- ond loaded revolver in her pocket. "1 dom't like it," Mrs. Bergeron declared to the honeymooners just before she opened fire. The pair were married yesterday. Mrs, Ber- geron was arraigned later om the charge of attempted murder. GOVERNOR-GENERAL BETTER. Lord Byng Feeling Good Effects of Rest. Rosser, Man., April 22. --Lord Byng, Governor-General of Canada, who is suffering from an infected foot, is .progressing favorably; aec- cording to an official bulletin fssued to the Canadian Press by Colonel Snow, his private secretary, to-day. The bulletin states: "As a result of the complete rest ordered by the doctors, His Excel- lency the Governor-General, Is pro- gressing very. favorably, and he hopes to carry 'out the remainder of Me Srosramne en _ Toute to the ific coast." TARIFF UNDER DEBATE AGAIN BY COMMONS Customs Collections Increase in Sie of Sogo NOTOR CAR REDUCTION Is Favored by Hon. Charles Mar- cil---The Views of C. H. Dickie, of Nanaimo. Ottawa, April 22---Debate on the budget was resumed in the House yesterday afternoon by Hon. Charles Marcil (Liberal-Bonaventure.) Mr. Marcil stated that the year's financial statement was noted for its announcement of a reduction in taxation and increase in trade and an improvement in the Canadian Na tional Railways. 3 Another feature of the budget which would be popular, said Mr. Marcil, was the return to penny postage. Canada was a pioneer in the experiment of penny postage, back in the days when Sir William Mulock wai pdstmaster-general, The experiment had proved very profits able then, and Mr. Marcil thought it very fitting that Canada should go back to the two-cent stamp. In spite of all the smuggling which was said to be going on, Mr. Marell drew attention to the fact that thers has been a considerable increase In the net sum collected on customs duties. There would be a certain amount of smuggling in any case, he thought, and the returns of the Cus. toms Department showed a very satisfactory increase. Motor Car Reduction. Mr. Marell supported the redness tion in the tariff on motor cars. The nearer Canadian prices were to se in the United States, the greater would be the prosperity of the autos mobile industry in this country. This was due to the fact, he stated, that reductions in the price of cars would increase the number sold, He read editorials from newspas pers in the Maritime Provinces, Ques bee, Ontario and Western Canada, favorably commenting on the bud« get. Canada, stated Mr. Marcil, was on the high road to prosp¥rity. C. H. Dickie (Conservative-Nanals mo), expressed the view that the question of the tariff on motor cars should have been referred to the new. tariff advisory board. Govern- ment's course was being governed by the Progressive group. The Speech from the Throne had stated that the tariff board would be cons stituted for the comsideration of tar- iff matters; yet the Government had in its buliget taken a step in the op- posite direction. ais. Sorry' For the Farmers, - : Mr. Dickie regretted that no relief had been afforded to farmers in Bh tish Columbia, and especially the poultrymen. They had been placed by the Government in an unfair po- sition and were not being given an equal chance with American produe~ ers. Canada should oppose United States competition with an adequate protective tariff. "I do not say bufld a tariff wall brick for brick with that of the United States," sald Mr. Dickie, "but I say that we FREY : Hi e iH; 38 : § il $5 i