TO- DAY ] The Conaecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Cours ] rt? Aas pats ey YEAR 93; No. 109, 0 BE A RMENT IN THE BRITISH STRIKE SITUA I E KINGSTON, ONTARIO, MONDAY, MAY 10, Tie lin Suu | : Dion v Ait Calin Labor' London, May 10./he scventh day of the general [strike in the British Isles beganp to-day without Apparent prospects pf « betterment of the situation. /The week-end ed without th¢ materialization any of those jecace movements hich had Leen predicted, or at . were hopel for. There 'was ; nothing to shoy to-day that either side to tho coproversy was advanc. ing toward vitory notwithstanding their respective claims. The spokes- man for the Trades Union Congress announced this" morning that the oxecutive conncil had not yet made any decision as to what its next step would be concerning the all- kg important question of calling out labor's second line of dafense, which includes seamen, electricians, gas and water workers, textile workers, men and girls employed in woollen mills, persons engaged in the boot and shoe industry and various em- ployees in essential or municipal services. In the third line are the general laborers in the allied trades represented in the Trades Union mgress and also scavengers, N SUBURBAN SERVICES Practically all London suburban rallways are providing skeleton ser- vices. Volunteer workers ard ex- ceeding the demand at moment. Large numbers of Oxford and Cam- bridge under-graduates are being sent to work on the docks of Lon- (don, Southampton and other ports. {The Goyernment's steps to main fain law and order include the park. ing in the south London district of a mumber of heavy tanks with de- tachments of Guards in steel hel- mets and full equipment ready ta move at the shortest notice. An Bird 'Cage walk, beside Well. be Barracks, where the .Grenat r Guards are housed there is a detachment of royal Tank Corps and & column of armored cars, PREVENT COMMUNIST MEETING. The police prevented a com. munist meeting Sunday in Edgeware Road, and made two arrests. A dis- ce occurred in Battersea re several police and officials were injured, and two men were ar. rested on sedition charges. The beginning of the second week of the strike found transportation facilities for thousands of city wort. ers much improved. There was good service on underground trains af well as an Increased number of busses. In the labor district ot Poplar, all public houses were clos- "8d 'to-day. The majority of licensed mises ceased business Saturday nm when their supply of lquw was exhausted. LABOR ORGAN'S STATEMENT. The British Worker, the organ of the strikers, says a convoy o! cavalry and armored gars which yes- terday guarded the food trucks from Victoria dock to Hyde Park, was an Attempt to delude the public into 'the belief that the country is in er. \ "There was no risk of an attack whatever," says the newspaper. The lorries. were as safe as ordinary traffic in ordinary times. The ob. ject of this ridiculous and uaneces- sary demonstration was to make the people afraid by creating the be- lief that the strike has reached vio- lent revolutionary aims." y Convict Starts to To Priso ow i An occupant: of a cell on the urth gallery in the Portsmouth ™ itentiary, named Mintz, a three- year man, who has served eight menths, created excitement, on Sun- flay, during the supper hour, by at- tempting to jump to the stone floor fyirty feet below, But. he repented with his first leap over the railing caught the iron rods and in the air. He threw Nis body ward and fell into the third gal- : an Tepeated the act to the see- i Jump From Ga Floor Thirty Feet Below His Mind and Catches Rods Falii Inward to ind. ond Oatol yar R SIDE/HAS ADVANCED VIGORY ANTICIPATED ars Provide Skeleton Service---Trades| e fas Not Yet Made a Decision $ Second Line of Defence. Under a convoy of sixteen armor- | ed cars and flanked by cavalry, 158 | motor trucks loaded with food were moved through the streets of Lon- don yesterday from Victoria docks to Hyde Park. An official report says it was the hostility of the dock workers and their comrades in the! east end to releasing food in the | dock warehouses which made neces- | sary the spectacular military | | | i dis- | play. | APPEAL FOR SPECIAL CON.| STABLES. The Government still is lacking its full requirement of special con-| stables and a second edition of the! British Gazette to-day printed an | appeal from Sir Willlam Joyson-| Hicks, Home Secretary, for more | men. It recalls that on Friday he| asked Londoners to bring the week- | end enrollment up to 50,000. | "I am delighted to say they are | coming in splendidly," said Sir William, "but 1 am still a few thou- | ! sand short." | A BUS ATTACKED. The most serious disturbances thus far in the general strike, so | far as casualties is concerned, oc- curred last night in Camdentown, a section of London where a crowd at- tacked a bus manned by volunteers. The Government spokesman to-day sald forty persons were sent to hospitals and a number of arrests were made. ha forma. SITUATIONS IN PROVINCES. London, May 10.---The situation in the provinces appears to be ime proving. Work on the Avonmouth docks is proceeding satisfactorily with the help of the large number of Oxford and Cambridge under- graduates. Hundreds of troops with an armored car arrived at Bristol yesterday. Many bus and trammen are returning to work at Bath and other centres including the South Wales coal fields district where the strikers are conducting themselves moderately. Eight food ships are be- Cardinal Bourse Calls on Catholics To Assist Government in the Strike Belfast, May 10.--Cardinal Bourne sees. a menace in the British strike situation and has called upon Roman Catholics to side with the Government in the strike movement. "All are bound to uphold and assist the Government, which law- fully constitutes the law of the country," he said.' He declared™ Catholics should face clearly the fact that there was no Justification for the general strike, Steamer Sinks, F400 9620200%0000 * ® + FIVE MEMBERS OF * | A FAMILY KILLED + + Deiroit, May 10--Five mem- 4 | 2 4 bers of Charles Rank's family, + + were killed at Mount Clemens # una Many Drowned Moscow, May 10.--The steamer Bielormes, plying be- tween Gomel and Kieve, on the River Dnieper, collided with a barge soon after leaving Gomel. All passengers on deck were rescued, while a number of pass- engers in the lower cabins went down with the vessel. A rescue squad, which rushed to the 6cene, saved many of the pass- engers, but the number who perished was not learned. Three Children Burned to Death Tragedy at the Home of Ernest Cline at Cornwall on Sunday. Cornwall, May 10.-- Three lives were lost when fire early yesterday | of Col. morning razed the home of Ernest Cline, Sixth Street West. The vic- tims are three of his children, Sam- uel, aged 19; Violet, aged 9, and Edith, aged 6. Mr. and Mrs. Cline three other. child: caped in scanty raiment. Alter having reached safety, Samuel turned back into the blazing building, determined to save his two sisters but failed. getting them in his care and had dragged them to within eight feet 4 when an interurban car # struck their auto. + [t22vesceestnreces [tion |George P. Graham, | HON. G. GRAHAM RETURNS, } | Policemen Play Soccer | | | | | | | + 3 For Missions From Toronto and 3 FLIGHT OVER T With Strikers' Team { London, May 10.--After | clubbing a gang of rowdies who had created a strike disturbance, policemen at | Plymouth donned their | football clothes and played | a match against a team | composed of strikers. The game was attended by 2 J ow York, Mad Hmilontti delegation of 4,000 strik- | mander Richard E. Byrd, United ing workers, who marched : | States navy aviator, flew over the to the grounds in an order- | North Pole yesterday, the New York ly procession headed by a brass band. Started at King's Ba Return Distance | patched announced. Commander | made the flight in 14 hours and 30 OBJECTIVE OF $200,000. | minutes, leaving his base at King's Kingston Presbyterian Synod. | Toronto, May 10.--Toronto and Kingston synod of the Continuing Presbyterian church is set an objec- | tive of $200,000 for the present | | } | church year, or exactly one-third of Washington Thinks He May Be all that the church in Canada is ask- Canadian Ambassador. with the visit of .Right Hon. there is much talk in semi-official eircles that Mr. Graham will have the honor of being the first Canadian ambassador to the {United States, It is understood here | | { of the doorway to the street when he | was overcome by smoke and col- lapsed. On¢ of the victims, Edith- was being carried out by her mother, when in some way she slipped from her arms just as the moment the house lights went out, and she could not be found again. The charred remains were discovered after the local firemen had succeeded in | ing loaded with foodstuffs for the western Highlands. GREAT CONVOY OF FLOUR. London, May 10.--The third and subduing the stubborn blaze. MUST MOVE HIS GAS AND REPAIR STATION largest convoy of flour from Vie- toria dock to the Hyde Park dis- tributing centre was operated suc- cessfully this morning. The flour was transported in 220 lorries, es- corted by armored cars, troops and police. The committee in charge { says London's flour supplies now #10} | fully securad, as 483 lorry qads | | have been removed {rom the dosh in| r three days. Supplies Hyde | 80 be- | Park milk pool are coming in | treeiy by rail that lorries are ing. released for other purposes, FIRST BREAK IN DISCIPLINE. London, May 10.--The first bregk in the 'iron-clad discipline enforced by the Trades Union Congress in its conduct of the general strike, ap- peared to-day when assistance of the Parliamentary Labor Party was Invoked to direct nation wide meet- ings for creating and maintaining solidarity among the strikers. Hitherto the Trades Union Con- gress executive has insisted on con- ducting all administration work com- nected with the strike. for a Time. ond and first galleries, finally drop- ping to the floor a fall of about seven feet. When guards reached him, lying in Was able to walk to the ] where it was found he suffered from 8 very bruised arm, his eThow being fractured, 'e 7 y Mintz who has been employed as 8 mason's belper, said that the im- pulse that came over him to throw himself over the railing, was due to a heap, he got up and | hospital | Order Made by Justice Lennox 'Against E. McAllister, Kingston. Toronto, May 10.--Acting for J. I. Patterson, of Kingston, A. B. Cun- ningham, K.C., this morning moved to commit E. McAllister for breach of an injunction restraining him from maintaining his gas station and re- pair garage, which is within seven- teen feet of the Patterson threshold. The injunction was to take effect on May 1st. McAllister has recently put in another stock of gasoline. An or- der was made by Mr. Justice Lennox this morning under which McAllister is allowed to sell gasoline on hand. He must move his repair shop which he is allowed to operate in the mean- time, by July first, and must pay $25 costs of the motion to commit, BECOMES NECESSARY TO COMMANDEER PAPER Churchill Says the Newsprint Is Required for the Gov- ernment Daily. London, May 10---Chancellor of the Exchequer Churchill stated in the house of Commons today that it had become necessary, owing to the shortage of newsprint to 'com- mandeer the paper provisionally and employ it. for the & nervous condition from which¥he hind suffered ali day. =. ! | | | | | | { | f | | | that the selection of an ambassador will be' made without much further delay, and Mr. Graham's friends in Washington are discussing openly the likelihood of his selection, $ ' { KINGSTON BOY WINS } $1,800 SCHOLARSHIP - Jack Macphail, Clergy street, son Alexander Macphail and Mrs. Macphail, has won the Gordon Sou- tham Scholarship of $600 a year for three years, in Upper Canada Col- lege. Jack is not-¥et fourteen, and is a pupil in ; d form of the boys tried the examination fo® the scholarship, some of them from .the third form, bit Jack Was the success- ful competitér, making 100 per cent. He succeeded in|in Latin and nearly as much in He will enter Upper Can- . French. , ada College in| Septembér. SERIOUS FOREST FIRES. | | | | i Damage in Eastern States Exceeds | Million Dollars, Boston, Mass.,, May 10-- PFirest fires in the Eastern States today had claimed at least one life and caused damage estimated well in efcess of one million dollars. While scores of blazes, which had laid waste to thou- sands of acres in New England Sta- tes, over the week-end, 'were report- ed out or under control, serious fires still raged in Virginia and New Jer- sey. TWENTY-SIX VESSELS, Dock or Sail at Liverpool Over the Weekend. Liverpool, Eng., May 10---Twenty- | six vessels docked or safled here over | the week-end, were being loaded or discharged at Liverpool and Birkenhead docks to- day. The White Star liner Baltic and the Cunarder Caronia arrived from | of Regina New York. Motor coaches were wait- ing to convey passengers to their destinations. | "STRIKE. RECESSIONAL" | By Rudyard Kipling. London, May 10.--Prominent in the British Gazette, which the Gov- ernment journalistic battalion, gets out every night in spite of the strikers demonstrating outside the office where it is printed, is a short poem by Kipling--the first time in many a day that he has broken his literary silence. The poem is en- titled, "A Song of the English," and ruus as follows: Keep ye the law--be swift in all obedience--- Clear us the land of evil, drive the road and bridge the ford. Make ye sure to each his own, That he reap where he hath sown, By the peace among our people let mend A know we serve the Lord. mri | | | | | | | and thirty vessels | would imdicate rain | i ed to raise, according to a summary vashington. May 10.--In connec- | 3 according y of the Presbyterian budget in the official bulletin of the church. For the period of June 10th to | Jan. 31st last the budget was set at | $250,000, and a total of $227,000 | was raised. But only about $135, | 000 of this was spent, the reason tor | the large balance being that the | fl > N | church was not in a position to spend | e% over the North Pp much money on foreign missions. | The Presbyterian toreign fission | fields are still in the hands of the | United Church of, Canada, with the | exception of Gwalior, in India. [ NO NEGOTIATIONS | TILL STRIKE OFF Premier Baldwin Says Struggle Will- Increase Misery and Disaster y ------ ' May 10. the. Government can Folin. tions the general strike must be wall- ed off," declared Premier Baldwin in a broadcast statement Saturday | night. "The mining dispute could then be settled. It would be a | thousand times better to accept this | than continue the struggle, which | would omly increase misery and | disaster." { The Prime Minister went on to| say that he was a man of peace | and was longing, working and pray- | Ing for peace, but that he would not | surrender the safety and security of | the comstitution to threats of vio- | lence. | The Government, he asserted, was not fighting to lower the standard | of living' for the miners or any other workers. i ---- RAIN IN SASKATCHEWAN. | | 1 | Regina, May 10.--More than an | inch of rain, enough to give the land a good soaking, had fallen in Re- gina district at noon Saturday. Reports - from many quarters to be general over the southern and eastern por- tions of the province. All points on the main line east | to Moosomin and south to Estevan were well watered. After several days of hot weather | and high winds the farmers in all | districts affected welcomed the | rain, not only as an incentive to | growth' ¢f seed now in the ground, but also as the surest kind of pro- tection against addition soil drift- ing. It is est!mated that at least 75 per cent, of the wheat seed is now In the ground in Regina district. ni ------ PUBLICATIONS BANNED. Two Books and One Weekly Cannot Ottawa, May 10.--A circular has been - issued by the Department of Customs and Excise to its collactory at all ports, instructing them that 1 cations have been importation ny of God." a book by ph .~ published by the Truth Publishing Company, New York; "The Truth Seeker," publish. ed weekly by the Truth Seeker Com- pany, New York: "Convent Cruel- len kaon and in. Bay, Spitzbergen, at 1.50 o'clock yesterday morning (Greenwich time) and returning safely at 4.20 o'clock in the afte Joon. The en- tire population of ing's Bay turn- ed out to welcome the aeroplane's return, Captain Amundsen, Lincoln Ells- worth and the crew of their airship Norge, on which they plan a similar flight, greeted Commander Byrd up- on his descent. The monoplane, Ford, in which Lieut.-Commander Richard E. Byrd, according to an an- Douncement of the New York Times and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, ole, was taken the steamer false starts Miss Josephine to Spitzbergen aboard Chantier after severa! and near accidents in New harbor. The three-engined F' plane, named after the daugh Edsel Ford, was endangered okker ter of by { Times and the St. Louis Post-Dis-* | Byrd, first to accomplish this feat, | BY IS. NAVY A Y. Spitzbergen. Sunday Morning---Covered the in 14 Hours and 30 wo, | on Return by Amundsen and Ellsworth, NORTH POLE VIATOR BYRD Minutes. --Greeted falling beam while the Chantier was being loaded at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Readjustments of CATg0 were made, and the ship left the yard April 5th,' but had to anchor again off Staten Island to allow the crew to make fast other pleces of cargo which threatened the aeroplane, The motors of the Miss Josephine Ford and of the expedition's second aeroplane, a Curtiss Oriole, were taken from the hold and fastened on deck, and the Chantier crossed the bar on the night of April 6th. The expedition arrived at King's Bay, Spitsbergen, on April 289th. The following day, braving the ice hazards, the crew landed the aeroplanes and began re-assembling. On May 4th tests were made of skiis attached to the Miss Josephine Ford, but one of them snapped. A successful trial flight was made the next day, and Commander Byrd an- nounced on May 6th that he was ready for his dash to the pole, Byrd's Mother Notified. York | day PA A rs tam dons na STATUE OF LIBERTY DRAPED IN MOURNING Two Black Banners Waved In 8atiric Protest Against Prohibition. New York, May 10.--In satiric 'against prohibition, a_dele- gation from the World War Veterans] Light Wines and Beer League Satur- day draped in mourning the statue of liberty. . For ten minutes, two black ban- ners, 15 by. 60 feet, waved from the eyes of the statue while passengers crowded to the rails of two ocean liners which were moving down the bay and watched the strange spec- tacle. It was 10° minutes before authori- ties of the island were notified of the act, and the drapery went down. Cheers went up from passengers on the Celtic and Minnewaska which were statue, Mrs. Dodge Weds Ex-Actor. Detroit, Mich.,, May 10.--Mrs. Horace E. Dodge, Sr., widow of one of the founders of Dodge Brothers Inc., and one of the world's wealth fest women, was married Saturday to Hugh Diliman, ex-actor, realtor and art director. Dillman, whose father, James McGaughty, was a Columbus, Ohio, tailor, 1s of Marjorie Rambeau, actress. proceeding slowly past the | . | + | church, here, their call to | ary Presbytery | and Hamilton Presb | ed him, the divorced husband | here Richmond, Va., May 10.--Lieut.- Commander Richard E. Byrd yester- advised his mother, Mrs, R. EB. Byrd, here, that he had made a successful flight over the North a l Pole. A ny Strikers Refuse Money From Soviet London, May 10.---Thne exe: o Cutive council of the Trades Union Congress has declined to receive financial assistance 4 "Red. "national Federation for conducting the general strike in Great Britain, E. L. Poulton, of the Trades Union Congress, explained that while the executive committee was in conference Saturday a cheque for some thousands of pounds arrived from "the all-Russian central council of Trades Unions' at the Palace of Labor, Moscow. Mr, Poulton said, "We fully considered the matter and decided to send a courteous reply expressing our appreciation but our inability to accept the cheque, which has been returned. a -- Acceptd Call at Lower Salary, St. Catharines, May 10.--Rev. Dr, Johnston, Calgary, has notified the congregation of Knox Presbyterian that he has accepted be their minister. Cal- has released him ytery has accept- He is expected here about Sept. 1st. He will receive a salary of $4,200 but is giving up one of $6,000 in Calgary. Woman Who Killed Her Husband Is Released From Portsmouth Prison Mrs. Henrietta in Watertown, N. ona Charge Watertown, N.Y., May 10.--Want-; serve twenty years ed by thé Osage county Missouri, authorities on several charges of felony, Mrs. Henrietta Dougherty, 36, who was released from the Ports- mouth, Ontario, penitentiary late Thursday afternoon after serving six 'years of a twenty years' sentence for slaying her husband in Alberta in 1919, is being held at the county jail here awaiting extradition. Immigration authorities from Kingston brought the woman to Cape Vintent on Friday and turned her over to Sheriff William E. Button who holds an Osage county warrant charging burglary. - herty, Aged 36, Deported--Now ht by Missouri Author Sought by Misscur Authorities in Jail in the Portgs mouth penitentiary. At the time of her arrest the Dougherty woman told Dominion po- lice that an Austrian in the commu ity had slain her husband. But at the trial she changed her testimon declaring that she shot him during a fight, 3 The Doughertys were divorced in 1910 while. the woman was serving 0 fter his wife had behind the bars a year. gi During her sentence the husband Linn, Missouri, to Al &