DAY RED GRANGE in "ONE MINUTE TO PLAY" YEAR va: No. 271. The CRE HET SR mek Bi aily British KINGSTON, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, MON. TUES LOIS MORAN, NOAH BEERY in "PADLOCKED™ A L AST E DIT TON, KINGSTON NOT TO HAVE THREE- CORNERED ELECTION FIG "Reported That Mayor - "Not To Be Candidate Rumored That He as Received Government . Nickle and Ald. T. Appointment--Battle Between Hon. W. F. A. Kidd--Arrange- ments for the Nomination Speeches. The British Whig is informed on good authority that Mayor Thomas Angrove will withdraw rom the present election con- test within twenty-four hours. It is now practically settled that his name will not be placed in nomination tomorrow. It is rumored that the mayor has received an appointment from the Ferguson Government and will take up his new duties very shortly. The retirement of the mayor leaves the field to the Hon. W. PF. Nickle, the O.T.A. candidate, and Ald. T. A. Kidd, the gov- ernment control candidate. This makes the issue clear, and the contest will be watched with in- terest all over Ontario. Arrange For Speeches. The present candidates for the Ontario Legislature, Hon. W. F. Nic- minutes and wil] be credited with that amount of time whether he uses it or not. He will have ten minutes for his reply. Hon. W. F. Nickle, will be allow 'ed forty minutes and this will com- plete his address. Not Out For Mayoralty. Owing to certain réperts going the rounds on Friday morning, Mayor Angrove was asked if he would be a candidate for a fifth term as the chief magistrate of the city, but in response to the query he said, "No." Still in the Fight. Interviewed by The British Whig at 3 o'clock, this afternoon Mayor Angrove stated that he was still in the contest, when informed that there was a report that he was go- ing to drop out. Mr. Nickle to Mr. Kidd: The following letter was sent by kia, Ald. T. A. Kidd and Mayor Tho-! Mr. Nickle to Mr. Kidd: mas Angrove met in the latter's of- fice at the city buildings on Friday forenoon, to arrange for the speeches to be delivered in Ontario Hall on following the nominations to take piace between 1 Saturday afternoon, al 3 o'clock, . W. W. Bands has "heen select. the speak- my arranged ad follows: ayor Angrove 'will be with twenty-five mihutes; reply. § for his'reply. Ald. Kidd will he given thirty-five given | twenty-five minutes if he so desires, but at any rate he will be credited If he speaks twenty-five minutes or less, he will be givén fifteen minutes to if he speaks thirty minutes, he will be allowed ten minutes for reply, amd If he speaks thirty-five » Mirutes will be allowed five minutes Kingston, Ont, Nov, 18, 192% T. Ashmore Kidd, Esq. Kingston, Ont. Dear Mr. Kidd:--As I write 1 have before me yours of November 18th. The meetings to which you refer were not meetings of the electors at large but of those wedded to a cer tain point of view. My desire is that all our citizens--not merely a few---- without consideration of political at- fillations or party attachments, shall be privileged to hear the issue open- ly discussed by us. Am [ to assume that you do not concur In my desire? In any event it might be well at the earliest possible moment to ar range as to nomination proceedings and addresses. Believe me, Yours sincerely, W. F. NICKLE. @ Government Wants Healy to Remain .. Dublin, Nov. 19 Governor General Timothy Healy, owing to the censure of him in the Dail Eirean on Tuesday over a re- cent speech in which he is said to have asserted that the longer Republicans boycotted the Dail, the better pleased he was, ex- pressed a desire to resign. The Government, however, did not desire Mr. Healy to leave his post. Relations between tho Govarnor and the Government remain friendly. Norwegian tilla fn drydock at Sparrow's point. First reports said from dight to twelve were killed. Fifty were injured. STRIKE TO INCREASE OLD LAND INCOME TAX The Coal Tie-up o-up Means Addi- "tional Levy of Sixpence on Pound Is Feared. London, Nov. 19---An additional sixpence on the income tax and other { indirect taxation is expected as the result of the coal stoppage. This is causing some anxiety at Conserva- tive headquarters and has already created some adverse criticism in the House of Commons which is direct- ed chiefly against Premier Baldwip for what his opponents call his "db nothing™ policy. Labor has very low funds with whieh to fight an election campaign, but Lloyd George's expressed wil- lingness to make a seitlement on the matter of party funds is regarded as significant. inl. BRITAIN IN CONTROL London, Nov. 19--Control of the Halifax and Bermuda cable has heen transferred to the West India Cable Company from the Commercial Cable Company, thus replacing American by British control. The result of this is that another {all red rowte has been established, this timé between the West Indies, Bermuda, Canada and Great Britain, Sir Campbell Stuart is the largest shareholder In the two companies and will shortly be raised to the dir sctorate of the hoard, of which Sir Hewitt Skinner will continue as n. 4 To Erect Tablets Here Commemorating |. The Department of the Interior of Canada, in co-operation with the Historic Sites and Monuments Board, proposes to erect braxz: tablets in the main building of the Kingston General Hospital, which was formerly the first parliament bulldings of Upper Canada, com- memorating the public service of Lord Sydenham and Sir Charled Bagot. The hospital authorities . have granted permission and an officer of the board will come 0 Kingston, Services of Lords Sydebam and Bagot | in the pear future, to confer with! the hospital management as to the | best place to put the tablets. ! The name of Lord Sydenham is] closely connected with this city as| he lived here while Governor-Gen-| eral and is buried in St. George's! Cathedral. He wal succeeded by Sir! Charles Bagot who resided fn Wing- ston for a short time but died be- ore the seat of government was moved to Momtpeal in 18544. There are streets in Kingston named af: ter both these men. Special Train For Toronto Athletic Board Has Made Ar- rangements -- Reynolds Will Not Play Again. For the benefit of the Kingston fans who would like to see the foot- ball play-off in Toronto, on Satur day, November 27th, Queeg's Ath- letic Board of Control announced on Friday that arrangements had been completed for a special train over the Canadian National Raflway to jeave Kingston at 8 a.m. the day of the game, arriving in Teronto at 12 o'clock noon and returning af- ter the game. If there is ample de- mand for it, the railway company will put on a chair car on this train, and all desiring to take advantaga of this should telephone the Cana dian National Railway city station They Queen's seniors are quietly preparing for their game against the winner of the MecGHl-Varsity game to-morrow at Montreal. The lool Aatlogiuns held & snappy prac- thes with R. M. C. yesterday, best one of RE Baldwin and Voss are back om the job again Ddut "Honey" Reynolds is out for the season, his injury during the Var- sity game here being responseible. SINCLAIR WELCOMES * NICKLE'S ENTRANCE His Stand Must Be Re-assuring to O.T.A. Supporters, He Says. Stratford, Nov. 19.--"The news which swept across the Province te- day that Hon. W. F. Nickle, Attor. ney-General in the Ferguson Gov- ernment, had joined hands with us in this great fight must be reassur- ing to those who favor the great principles for which we stand in the present contest" declared Wiliam B. N, Sinclair, K.C., Liberal Leader, amid . thunderous applause, at a large rally held in the Armorigs last evening in support of Dr. F. J. R Forster, Liberal prohibitionist can- didete in North Perth. "We welcome into this contest all those who believe that the will of the people should prevail, as express ed by them on two different occa sions," he Mr. Sincla prefaced his con grytulations to Mr. Nickle With the remark that while the Premier was asking the electoraté to return him on a Ferguson-made policy, he, the Liberal Leader, was advocating the policy as laid down by the Liberal | party at is convention in 1919. "The Liberal party has taken up the challenge thrown by Mr. Ferguson," said Mr. Tod Bel that being so, the Liberal party _-- into the battle under my loadershin on the issue: 'Shall the will of the people prevail?" As the - go by Tanke. Board of Trade is a permanent body. President 8. B. Gundy &undunces, J. J. Dutfus, Peterboro, heads the Associated Boards of Trade of On- . see TIEEEIIES » init Sesser ssrasecs SEPP PPROTRIPIOIPIVTIEY THE MINERS' VOTE AGAINST TERMS London, Nov. 19. Official figures on the result of the coal miners' district vote show that the Government's terms for settiemént of the surke were rejected by a majority of 147,606. The vote was 460. 806 against. acceptance, and 313,200 in favor of the terms, PPP EPEEPO PTD 0d SPP PSL P2009 OPPS L220000 000 The Queen's Laurier Club Standing Betind Nek The Laurier Club et Queen's University has decided to throw in its support fof Hom. W. F. Nickle. At a recent meeting the club went on record as fa- voring the retention of the O.T.A. and as there is no Liberal candidate in the fleld, and the former Attorney-General is op- posing the chief plank in the Conservative platform, the Lib- eral students are orgavizing in his behalf. MISSING STEAMER * * ARRIVES IN PORT nsn-- The Andaste Was in Terrible Storm-----Another Steamer Is Adrift. Sturgeot Bay, Wis, Nox. 19.--The steamer Andaste, missing since Wed- nesday night's storm, came into port Thureday night. Oapt. Savage said his vessel ran into a terrific storm in midlake and near Milwaukee heavy seas wege running. It was previous iy feared the Andaste bad gone down with twenty-four men and one woman aboard. The rudderi¢ss steamer Peter A. B. Widener is adrift in Lake Super- jor six miles from the Duluth entry to Superior Bay, awaiting the abate. ment of the wind so that @ Hae from a tug can be taken on. The Widener has a crew of thirty. TWO OTTAWA WORKMEN -SWEPT OVER FALLS L Jack and John Oostelie "Drowned While Inspecting City Bridges. b Ottawa, Nov. 19.--Two city work- men, Ji Jack and John Costello. were Swept to their deaths ower Rideau Falls this morning. They were etigeged in inspecting the city bridges before the freeze-up and had come down on 8 pontoon to Sussex jstrest about thirty feet above UP fihe falls. The river is cantrolled at the latter point, and as he stop-logs were oul of one of the chutes the swift seized the pontoon. making ®t unmanagable. As it rush- ed through the chute, the three men on it jumped Off. one reaching the shore in sarety but the other two falled and were carried over the making identity cards of foreigners vadd for one year instead of two years, will Dring at jedst another 350,000,000 france into the treasury coffers annually. ,The Stockholm View. : Stockhoim, Nov. 19.-- George Barnard Shaw's letter to the Swed. sh Academy accepting the ' Nobel prige but declining to receive the money cartied By M, seems to be interpreted here as tantamount to 2 rejection of the whole awafd. A Wood Shortage {Canada Has Only y 27 Per Cent. Inclement weather # still serious. | handicapping the'soged beet har-| in Keat sounts, T: rmery now re- | to the primitive process of | by bend instead of plowing! Windsor's mayor bas eened an lanpesl for the unemployed, of whom rOCts. Te] Canada's Prosperity Its Trade Balance Toronto, Nov. 19. --"Canada Was never 80 weil off as at the present time," sald K. J. Duns- tan, president of the Ontario Associated Boards of Trade and Chambers of Commerce, at their annual convention in the oity hall yesterday aftormoon. "Canada has the largest fa- vorable trading balance per cap- ita, of any country," he declar- ed. "The Canadian dollar Is at par. The signdard of living was never so high. "Af the end of the first six Is Unprecedented; the Best in the World months of this year there was less unemployment than fu the five previous half years, Construe- tion 'programme was the largest since 19813. Commercial failures were the lowest since 1920. The national per capita" wealth in 1903 was $1,100. This has in. creased to $2,408, in 1924 : Mn Dunstan urged Strict economy in all government ex- penditure, and the elimination of all waste, including fire losses which in Canada were the high- est, per capita, in the word. In Thirty Years 'of Her Original Forest Standing. London, Nov. 19.--YA review of the forestry situation throughout the world leads to the conclusion that available supplies of the . principal tim- bers of commerce are daily ap- proaching exhaustion," was the feature of & report of the fores- try subcommittee of the Im- | perial Conference, which was presented pestenday. "There is every likelthood,"" continues the ° report, " in less than thirty years the nage of soft woods will be severely feit."" The United States, it is stat- ed, has ouly twenty-five years' supply of timber left apart from the produce of second growth areas., K's understood these resources will soom be limited to a few western states. Oan- ada has only twenty-seven per cent. of her original forest left, and her virgin soft wood re sourccs will least only another quarter cemtury. USE CERTIFICATES i OF IMPORTED CARS, To Sell Smuggled Cars-- | Twenty-two Such Are Already Seized. Ottawa, Nov. cers are investigating an alleged new! method for wholesale smuggling of! motor cars. A man brings in an Am- erican_ car in a regular way and pays the duty on it. Then he goes| back to the customs port and states that he wants to sell the car and de! sites to get two certified copies of his entry. "Thess he secures 'and utilizes for &h& sale of smuggled | cars. Mt is stated that already twen- | ty4two cars have been discovered which have been disposed of in this) manner, Enquiry Is also being made into cancelled tourist permits. In many cases it is said that persons come in under such permit, secure an On- tario or other €apadian license as a {ourist and then sell the car There is no immediate fund in the | Canadian Customs Department from | which rewards may be paid to in-| formers, and this fact tends to dis-| courage the flow of information as to | violations of the law, G. Ww. Wilson, chief preventive officer, testified be- fore the customs enquiry eommis- sion. | Killed by Motor Car. Port Colborne, Nov. 19.---Alex! Zhamo, of Fort Erie, formerly of! Port Colborne, was struck by a mo-| tdr car on the Garrison road, ove | mile sast of she Ridge Road. Wednes- | day night, and instantly killed. Dominion Premiers consider i re © broadcasting plan to cover the empire. 19.~--~Customs offi-| aa | prosperity | greatly FEW PREVENTIVE CARS In the Service of the Customs Ser-| vice Ottawa, Nov customs of Canada, 18. --Th preventive service {der bétwean the privinces of Mani- toba, Saskatchewan and Alberta and the United States. They are all sta- tioned in Manitoba and there are consequently none in the othe: pro- vinces. In Montreal, the customs preventive services owns only automobile, a sedan, and not .very fast. These wete some of the outstand-| {img facts which were brought out be- | tore the customs investigating com- jmission this morning when W F Wilson, tive service, was under Accepts Honor But | Not Money. London, Nov. 18.--Mr. George Bernard Shaw will accept the honor of the Nobel award for literatyre but not the money prize of $35,000 He suggest that the money be used to encourage an understanding ifterature and art and Britain. U.S. WILL DEPEND ON CANADIAN WEST. Trade Commissioner Sees Prairies as Future Bread Basket of Continent. Winnipeg, Nov 19 Canada will one day bread baskét of the declared Frederic Hudd, { Trade Commissioner at New York, who was in Winnipeg yesterday in the course of a tour of Western Can- -"""Western hecome United States," the Mr. Hudd considers the develop- ment of Canada's export trade to be jone of the factors essential to future Tha increasing volume of the products of he sald, to find and de- land variety Prairie Provinces justified making every effort velop a wider market so far as tariff and other conditions permit Poultry, vegetables and dairy pro- ducts are already finding a selected market in the United States and in spite of tariff disabilities, he though it possible to extend this market For &igh yuality products, regardless of the higher prices neces- {witated by foreign tariffs "Increased prosperity can be great-! hy assisted. 1 bel jeve, by bringing our products to the highest point of manufacture." The credit of Canada, he added, was higher in tho United States to- day than ever before h -- Glasgow s Lid Will Be Tilted. Glasgow, Nov. 19. Glasgow's lid pn "wet" banquets will be tilted November 25th in homor of the minjon Prime Ministers aftending the Imperial when they will be guests of the city at dinner. Thee will be cocktails, and plenty of wine, and cider for those preferring non-alcoholics. All funct cil have been a year. "dry" for more than Plans are completed for an inter national economic conference at Amsterdam on May 4 Steamer Montreal Burned Near Sorel: Three Men Missing After the Disaster Quebec, Nov. 18. Three men] were missing early this morning fol {owing the burning of the steamer | Montreal in the St. Lawrence river near Sorel. THey wel not present whet th: roll call was made after the disaster, and dus to confusion following the conflagration it was impossible to make & definite check Many of the crew were slightly burned in making their escape and three had to be taken to the hospi- tal in Sovel. The latter are Mon!- {real men, louis Ringuette, Lucien) Thiery and Albert Paquette. Thav saved thelr lives by jumpiag ino {the river when the ship was ome hundred feet from ashore, while tohgues of flame burned the cloth- dag oit their backs. There were forty men on bosrd and 'boat or by for made a hasty escape either by Jumping inte the and swimming ashore. The, fire broke omt before mid | night wh He the vessel was enrouts from Montreal 10 Quebec. on a freight-carpying wip, ber passenger season in the service of ber own- ers, The Canada Steamsbips Lies havigg been completed some fifteen days ago. The ship was beached The conflagration started in a for ward hold where asimals were quarierdd, presumably from a light | od match falling into a pile of hay. The missicg men have chances for lite or 4 Shots actounind are are four: mogor | joars on the elght-hundred-mile bor- one | chief of the customs preven- | examination { in| between Sweden Canadian | the | Deo- | Conference in London, | {ons of the Glasgow City Coun-| river | two | They may be on. board the Bram County, which stood | in Bll Mills Murder Trial at Somers, NJ "1 70LD THE TRUTH" Sick Woman Screamed As She Was Placed on a Stretcher Alter Testivag { Somerville, N.J.. Nov ~"1 told | the truth, so help me Hoy and you | { know it." Jane Gibson screamed 88 | she was béing placed on a stretohesr to be taken from the co urtroom af : ter testMying in the Hall-Mills case' yesterday | + As she cried "You know it," she | waved her hand in the general dives {tion of the three defendants, Mes Frances Stevens Hall and her two { brothers, Henry and Wille Stevens, | | who sal without change of express {selon as the woman's ery sounded in the stillness of the courtroom. : The jury was out of the room ath time. Mrs, Gibson tnen sank sack with a gesture of exhinustion, while hospital attenddnts lifted hes from her bed to a stretcher and slowly carried her from the courts room i +h -- i On Spot of Murder. She related that on the night of September 14. 1922, che had seen Henry Stevens, Mrs Frances | Stevens Hall and Willie Stevens, at the spot where later Mrs. Mills and Halli had been found murdered. A She was carpled into the © TOS TUNA rfelenor, und tout | from' a bed. which replaced the wit ness stand remarkable a scens | as an American courtroom over witnessed, pnd the ciimax of the { Hall-Mills murder trial ; | The heed of the bed was reads justed so that Mre. Gibson lay In' & plete horizontal She { sald she raised up and a phys It was a far sick room, but was A hot placed at the farm Thermos and placed She curse ! position preferred te cian acquisced, from an actual paraphernalia. water bottle wal woman's feet, boltles were he cry the there medical at the bedside heard shots; and a w said she knéeling. bad ing heard a An scream 4 seen Mrs. Hall eard a woman pigad- man She Points Them Out. She had seen two men and & woo man In a und the woman, she * | added was Mrs Hall the men... { Henry and Willie Stevens. She polite ed out eac! Tl ont As tl white and internes be the court room rose little group at th bench. They Stevens Hail, Stevens Willie Stevens, the defense, Mrs. Gibson was risking her life to y¢ having killed Mrs. Mills" - THE WORST GALE OF SEASON IS RAGI uniformed ber in, all excepting & | jeft of 1 Mrs. nurses re e ware Henry AcCcuse Over Lake Superior and LI | _ Shipping Has Been Moving. { Fort Willlam, Nov. 19.---One the worst gales of the Great Lakes 'navigation "season, accompanied BF a blinding smowgorm, drites hy & fitty-mile an hour gale, rapid across Lake Superior yesterday. Thers Was Hitle movement of shipping 3 Storm conditions, which have valled since beginning of . the weék reached thelr punk Wednesday sight. and the gales were sitll tury height last night I Buffetted by gi sens during the = 'whole journey up from the Soo, seve eral Jake 'carriers made pot § bearing evidesce of the rough Jules age ap the Superior. Captains Me iported High seas and bad winds ] Lake travel! was made doubly gerous by a blinding ssowstorm blizzard proportiops, which {swesping out of the porti-east across the vessel lanes Many ships the . | pow reported to be lying to in shells tered havens along the north shore {waiting until the gale has and the heavy sess receded. i } Killed by Own Car, Welland, Nov. 1).--Obaries Bowles; thirty-one, of St. Cotharines, Be iman ow Niagura-8i Catharives {Toronto Railway, died at Hospital as the result of being by his own electric engine In -- ioerod