mon. TUES. WED. REGINALD DENNY "WHERE WAS r LAST EDITION. FRED THOMPSON in "The Wild Bull's Laly" THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1926. - + YEAR 98; No. 118, KINGSTON, ONTARIO, en ce mers' Delegates Reject Government's Proposals for Settlement "UNABLE T0 RECOMMEND THAT BUD THOMAS | Budget 1 Popular Wi Al Tiers || BENNETT HAS THE MINERS SHOULD ACCEPT WILL SETTLE !{ Of he Su. Ss the UE. Preikat {| POLITE BOUT | REDUCTION OF THEIR WAGES IN MONTREAL. Sore tr mrt WITH H EDITOR Germany Would Suppress + Its Former War fnstrumets Geneva, Switzerland, May 20 --~Concrete proposals to forbid the use of aeroplanes and poi- son gas in warfare and suppress heavy artillery and tanks were put forward by Germany today at a session of the preparatory disarmament commission. The proposals were presented by Count von Bernstorff, former automobile a farmer yet, of any shade of politics, tari reductions is right. » "I was riding in the train with al d who knoeks the budget," declare le taunch Conservative only a few days | A. Gilroy, of Alvinston, president o |ago. He had just bought a sedan, the United Farmers' Co-operative |and he thought the tariff cuts were | C. A. Bowman, of Ottawa Citi: They saved | : Clim That the Present Wages Do Not Provide for 8 Decent Standard of Thousands of Children of Miners Are beg Ton Sop itches London, May 20.--~The nae tional conference of miners delegates to-day rejected the Government's proposals for a settlement of the miners strike. The delegates adopted a resolu tion saying "We are unable to recommend that the mine work- ors accept Premier Baldwin's proposals for a reduction of wages which do not at present provide for a decent standard of living." 'The miners still maintain that re- Torganization of the whole coal in- 'dustry should precede any wage cut, whereas Baldwin's plan envisages wage reduction simultaneously with the commencement of reorganiza- 'tion. Mr. Baldwin has indicated to the miners' executive that the reduction in the men's wages which he had in mind in draftfiig' his scheme-is 10 por cent. as suggested by the Coal . Commission, Wat that the National Wages Board, which is to be set up, pay decide on a different figure. he lowest paid workers would not be touched at all by such revision. Feed Children in Soup Kitchen. Cardiff, Wales, May 20.--While megotiations are going forward in dignified Downing street, London, a settlement of the lockout and the coal mings, thousands on of miners are being fed p kitchens in little towns dot-{ WOMAN EVANGELIST BELIEVED DROWNED le Swimming at Los Ange- ~ Jes--Formerly of Oxford County, Ontario. Los Angeles, cait., May 20.-- ches, have failed to produce any ce of Mrs. Aime Semple McPher- n, widely known evangelist, who 18 beiieved to have been drowned Tuesday while swimming. Mrs. McPherson was a strikingly hand- some woman of less than thirty-five 'years, with magnetic personality. She was a former resident of Oxford County, Ontario. he | don, Ont., 'May 20.--Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Edwards and their small daughter Francis, aged seven were saved from death as flames gwept through their home early this morning, through the opportune ar- rival of Alfred Grant, & newspaper, boy, who had sufficfent presence of mind to force his way into the burn- house and awaken the occupants fore turning in alarm. Montreal, May, were slightly injured when fire of so _ far undetermined cause destroyed the HERBERT SMITH One of the big es gures in the Bri- ish strike, ohle e first union to strike, is Herbert § ith, acting presi- dent of the British ners' Federation. ting the grim valleys of the South Wales coal fields. The number of kitchens are being increased dally as the prolonged struggle between the miners and mine owners necessi- tates town after town being added- to the number where a large pro- portion of youngsters receive daily meals at children's manses. School houses and chapels serve one of the two meals daily under the supér- vision of education committees. The county -councils. pay the bills under the Necessitous School Children Act. A Madoo Merchant Was Attacked by Thieves May 20.--Clayton Rooke, manager of the Mcintosh Bros. Store, Madoc, was badly beat- en up Tuesday night by thugs who had gained an entrance into the store for the purpose of pillaging. Three ribs were broken and Mr. Rooke also sustained a bad crack on the head. Mr. Rooke passing the store at night noticed that a light always kept burning was out. He stepped to the store to relight it. When passing one of the counters three men it is believed jumped from behind and struck him on the head. They afterwards kicked Mr. Rooke win he was down and then made their escape. TWO ITALIANS KILLED Belleville, While Working on the Railway East of Windham. St. Thomas, May 20---Seilaggi Wusabl and Frank Sytor, Italians working on an extra gang on the Michigan Central railway tracks, were instantly killed two miles éast of Windham when they were struck by a Pere Marquette freight train. Engaged in breaking bolts off the Fails, the men failed to notice the approach of the train. They have no |. er in Canada. = Died Aged Ninety-One. Iroquois, May 20--There passed away yesterday at his home, Point Iroquois, the oldest resident of the place in the person of John Johnston in his ninety-first year. Until a few weeks ago, when overcomé with a stroke, he enjoyed comparatively good heiith, but since then had been confingd to his bed. Mr. Johnston was of English descent, and is the last of a family of six. A lover of the land, he was a farmer from choice, having lived on farms in Edwards- burg and Mhtilda Township¥. He is survive® by his widow and four echil- dren, the two eldest being twins, Gerald at home, and Geraldine, now Mrs. Stetham of Brockville, Irene, of Brockville, and Charles, at home. ambassador to 'the United States. Total of 551 Divorces In Canada in 1926 Ottawa, May 20.--Canada estab- lished a record during 1925 in the number of divorces granted in any year since Confederation. A total of 551 final decrees were issued, 134 by the federal Parliament to Ontario and Quebec residents, and 417 by the courts to citizens of other prov- inces. In 1924 the total number of divorces obtained in the Dominion was 543. A remarkable feature, from those of other countries, was the preponderance of divorces| granted to husbands rather than to | wives. Final decrees were obtained last year by 279 husbands, while 272 were given to wives. WARD OFF CANCER. Preventing Chronic Irritations Which Lead To It. Atlantic City, N. J.,, May 20.-- More than forty thousand persons, most of them at a period of their greatest usefulness, die needlessly of cancer in the United States annual- ly, Dr. George A. Soper, managing director of the American Society for the control of cancer, told the Ameri- can Health Congress to-day. Dr. Soper said it has become fairly definitely established that cancer is not caused by a parasite and that it is neither communicable nor heredi- tary, although pre-disposition toward it may be inherited. The best way to ward off cancer, he asserted, "is to prevent chronic irritations which lead to it." (rain Sern Is Now Opened Steamer Rahane in Port With First Cargo for Richard- sons' Elevator. What is expected to be the busiest geason in grain shipping experienc- ed by Kingston in many years, open- ed on Thursday morning, when the steamer Rahane arrived here from Fort William with the first load of grain for the Richardson elevator of the season. The unloading shoots were in operation for the first time this season soon after the Rahane ar- rived and the grain was transfered from the steamer into the elevator. It is not known exactly how much grain the Rahane carried but the shipment was a large one. Other shipments will be arriving within short periods from now on 'and Kingston will once more take on the aspect of a grain shipping centre. Many local men were given employ- ment unloading the Rahane. By $42,906.70 1S DUE To Province of Ontario by a Wind- sor Estate. i Toronto, May 20--A judgment gi- ven today by Mr. Justice Grant holds that the Ontatio Succession Duties Act is hot ultra vires insofar as it assumes to tax property outside of Ontario of persons - who have been domiciled in Ontario. The question arose in connection with the admin- istration of estate of late Raymond A. Baby, of Windsor, who died on Aug. 24th, 1923. Part of his estate consisted 'of securities on deposit in Detroit, on which the administrator different | Harry Batstone Offered Post at Western University, London, BUT MAY JOIN THOMAS Tabman Will Likely Remain With the Champion Ottawa Rugby Team for r Next Season. Montreal, May a7 38rUncortainty regarding the teamsiwith which a number of the Canadian rugby stars would play for next season has been considerably claritiéd in the past two days and the tield is beginning to narrow down after great con- jecture. Montreal comes 3 the fore with the decision of Thomas, bril- liant outside wing player of Queen's | University for the past four years, | to settle in business here--a decis- ion made yesterday. Harry Bat- stone, Thomas' teammate at Queen's, and rated one of thé great halfbacks of Canadian rugby, has been offer- ed the post of athlétie director at Western University, He has this offer, as well as one for a position in business in Moptreal, under con- sideration, Batstone is a close friend of Thomas and the fac¢t that the former Ottawa athlete has decided to settle here may have some in- fluence on Batstone's final decision. The latter is at present taking a summer post- -graduate course at Queen's. It is practically rtain ghat Joe Tubman, kicking halfback of .the Dominion champion Ottawa squad, I ay Red Grange's pro team York next fall, as well as a posi- tion in Moutreal. Tubman is prac- tically certain to be with the Sena- tors again in the fall. MARRIED MEN CHARGED. Four on Trial for Assault----Public Feeling Runs High. St. Catharines, Ont.; May 20.--The The preliminary hearing of the four married men held in connection with a criminal attack upon a 20-year- old stenographer, a mile north of the city on a lonely road Saturday night, was yesterday morning postponed for one week because of the. in- apility of the young woman to ap- pear, according {0 a statement by hér doctor. The girl was attacked while mot- oring with a male escort who claims he was tied ta the car with a rope during the attack. He was not gag- ged and his 'shouts attracted a farm- er who released him. BOMDARD DAMASCUS; OVER 500 ARE KILLED 300 Houses Are Destroyed-- Despatch Causes Surprise in London. London, May 20--More than 500 civilians, including women and chil- dren, and about 100 pebels and twenty French have been killed and 300 houses destroyed in the bom- bardment by French forces of the Midan quarter of the city of Damas- cus, says a despatch to the Daily Express. 'While there has been no confirm- ation of the report from Damascus, which was dated May 9th, it has oc- casioned considerable surprise, it having been thought that the trou- bles in the ancient city between the French and the Druse tribesmen had calmed down under civilian admin- istration. ' . § Election Plans. prove of the budget in a general way, in New| . Manitoba "= Winnipeg. May 20---Ostensibly to | a y Company, discussing the vote on the | budget in the House of Commons. "As far as 1 am concerned, I ap- and particularly of the tariff cuts in automobiles. If the automobile manu- facturers can't operate on twenty per cent. tariff, then it's time they ceased to operate," declared Mr. VOTE CONSTRUED AS Senator Pepper's Defeat May | Affect the President's | Renomination. Washington, May 20--The defeat of Senator George Wharton Pepper in Pennsylvania, despite the fact that he had the backing of Andrew Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, and the Coolidge administration, and the nomination of Representative William 8S. Vare, a pronounucea "wet", as Republican nominee for the Senate, have caused a profoynd impression in political circles. Defeat of Senator Pepper is gener- ally regarded as a blow at the ad- ministration, especially when consi- dered with the defeat of Senator Mc- Kinley, an administration "senator, in Illinois recently, and the victory of Senator Watson in Indiana with- out administration support. Vare's victory will greatly encoup- age the "wets", but here it is not attributed to the "wet" issue entire- ly. Gananoque, May 20.-- An aviator bound for Syracuse, N.Y.,, got mixed up in his course in the mist -yesterday and landed in Gananoque, down on the Bulloch-Conner farm. He was rather surprised to know that he had crossed a large expanse of water. As he had run out of gasoline, it was lucky for him that he reach- ed terra firma for the landing. MAY SETTLE IN CANADA Party of U.S. Farmers Reconnoitring in Saskatchewan. Wipnipeg, May 20--A party of thirty-four prospective land buyers and home seekers from Minnesota Dakota and Nebraska arrived in Winnipeg yesterday en route to Es- ton, Sask. These men are all experi- enced farmers, and the land which they have been working in the States is well equipped with stock and ma- chinery. They have been carrying on mixed farming of a high standard, and if conditions suit them in west- ern Canada they will transfer their interests from foross the line and es- tablish themselves in mixed farming on the prairie. FELL SEVENTY FEET IN SLEEP, Woman Landed on Automobile, Es. caping Serious Injury. Boston, May 20----Mrs. Ella Dah- len, believed to have been walking in her sleep, plunged 70 feet from a fourth storey window yesterday, but escaped serious injury when she landed on the top of an automobile parked under her window. SHORTAGE OF FARM HELP IN ONTARIO Provincial Authorities Seek Federal Aid in Remedying the Toronto, May 20.80 serious has the shortage of farm help become in this province that the Ontario Gov- ernment has sought the aid of the yesterday asking that they co-operate Ontario representatives in necessary help. It is de- have been A alire¥. | COOLIDGE SETBACK : all right, and he said so. him $180 on his car." "Are you one of those farmers who oppose the reductions in income tax ?"* "I am not," he replied, em- phatically. "I think it is a good thing, too," interrupted J. J. Morri- Son, U.F.O. secretafy, who was pres- ent during the conversation. CPP EPPAPPPIOPRIRIEY + MAIL CARRIER IS SERIOUSLY INJURED Lindsay, May 20.--Rural mail 4 carrier Robert Logie seriously 4 burned when a spark from his % pipe set fire to mail bags and + buggy. & PPP PP220002390000 * * * + * +> * + * + ULSTER HAS GOOD SURPLUS. No Necessity Yet for Betting Tax or Tax on Motors. Belfast, May 20.--Ulster's budget introduced yesterday intimates that there will be no change in taxation and that there will be no betting tax for the present anyway, though the Hon. Mr. Pollock, Minister of Fi- nance, in speaking to the budget, said the demands on thé public purse were so heavy that such a step might become a necessity. -------------------- ELECTION IN ALBERTA Will Probably Be Held at Early Date in July. Edmonton, May 20--The Alberta provincial election will be held at the earliest possible date in July, the time being Monday, July, 5, if the views prevail of private member sup- porters of the Government, who are in-an all-day caucus at the Parlia- ment buildings today, More than thirty of the U.F.A. supporters of the administration are :at the meet- ing, which is béIng held in the Legis- lative Council room. Milk Dealers Opposing Statute. Montreal, May 20.--A delegation of 50 milk dealers accompanied by several members of the Provincial Legislature petitioned Premier Tas- chereau here yesterday for the can- cellation or postponement of Mont- real's new pure milk by-law. The delegation said the law bade fair to ruin them through the slaugfter of cattle which reacted to the tuber- culin test imposed under the new Act. TWO CONSERVATIVES SUPPORT GOVERNMENT In Vote on Special Committee to Consider Railway and Marine Estimates. Ottawa, May 20.--Protests from the Conservative opposition against what was regarded as unfair and improper representation on the special committee which will con- sider the estimates of the National Railways and the Canadian Govern- ment Merchant Marine and other matters connect th these trans- portation systems were made in the House of Commons yesterday after- noon. The Government insisted that the membership of the committee should include mine of its support- ers as against six Conservatives. The Opposition contended that it was entitled to at least one more member on the committee, which would still leave the Government with an advantage in relation to its numerical strength in the House. Premier Mackenzie King, Hon. Charles Dunning and other ministers opposed the view of the Con- servatives, The motion for the com- mittee proposed by the Government was adopted by a vote of 107 to 92. Two Conservatives, W. F. Mgclean, Mount Rd&yal, voted with the Gov- ernment. 3 The House of Commons has late- ly followed the practice of referring the National Railway and Merchant Marine estimates to a special com- mittee. The committee for this ses- sion is to consist of six Conserva- tives, six Liberals, two Progressives 'nel being as follows: L. UG. Bell, SE Camper, of Nospease Bi Cattiphall, of of South York, and R. 8. White, of | en, Before Custons Canter, HONORS WERE EVEN Bell for Division in House Halt- ed Examination---Fierce Ea- counter Was Expected. Ottawa, May 20---Summoned be fore the customs committees at the instance of the Hon. R. B. Bennett, who took. exception to some editors fals published last month, Charles A. Bowman, editor of the indepen. dent newspapers, the. Ottawa Citi® zen and the Ottawa Evening Citizen, appeared yesterday afternoon for grilling by the Conservative member for Calgary West. From the fury exhibited by the Hon. Mr. Bennett some two or three weeks ago, when he moved for the appearance of the editor, a knock= down-and-drag-out encounter had been anticipated. Not at all. Ques. tion and answer mainly floated in honeyed tones between "Doctor™ Bennett and "Mr. Public Opinion* across an atmosphere crammed with "After you, my dear Alphonse" politeness. Ottawa 'tyrned out to see who would win. Both won. Ottawa was disappointed. It got perhaps most enjoyment out of the conclud- ing remark of Paul Mercier, the chairman, that "We are all afraid of two things; death and the press.' i iM 3 a A divigion bell calling members to the House of Commons division at 5.30 cut short the session. Prior to that, almost an hour had been spen by the Hon. Mr. Bennett get from Mr. Bowman . witnesses whom the Con 1 could call to offset Intima which the M.P. saw in the editorials, that the Conservative committee men had been shielding political as- sociates, using the probe for politle cal purposes, and showing keenness for baring Liberals, but protecting those of the Tory faith. Senator Burs eau and the Hon, George Bolvin, Minister of Customs, were suggested by the editor, who leaned mainly on the argument that his editorials ex- pressed publi opinién and revealed the dissatisfaetion rife from time to time -as a result of omissions and commissions by the committee, It was a short day. The budge debate Tuesday night was so strenu- ous that most' of the members were not abed until late, and there was no morning session. Pile of Citizens. of copies of the Ottawa Citizen and of the Ottawa Evening Citizen before him when Mr. Bowman was called, = The witness stated that he was. tor of both papers, and respos for the editorial columns in 'each. up the edition of April 19th and handed it'to Mr. an. the M.P. read out part of an editer- ial in which reference whs made to "shielding higher placed parties." "Now Mr. Bowman," sald the Hon. Mr. Bennett, "can you give us any instance that would assist us in being able to meet that observa. any witnesses wg might call?" "Well, that was just my opinion, Dr. Befinett," sald the editor. "Have you any evidence you could give us that would assist us in dis charging the public duty laid upon. us?" 4 "At that time I had, yes." "What was it?" . "Well, I should say one would be the delay in the publication of the Dunean report." ; "That is all of your answer in pect of that?" "1 should say there is ome ans and one Labor member, ne ola