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quest of 35,0 aintenance-of-way men of Canadian linen Sor vi of 10-cents an hour. ' e represen'a- Lives ¢f the men are meeting the Wage Committee of the Railway Association of t'unada on this :natter, sertain werking conditions are also the sub- Jeet. of discussion, previous negotia- tung having been udjourned. * . Rail shopmen in Canada, to the' number of 85,000. employad on all' Canadian lines, are looking aso to vinerense! | A New Zealand Premler Will Cross Canada. Rt. Hou. J. G. Coates, Premier of New Zealand, accompanied by Mrs: Coates and members of his party, has left London on his way homeward. The party is travelling to New Zealand via New York, Montreal and Van- couver. cipality. Miles" or {as told that there _ | the proposal to raise the speed to 35 miles an hour. But now it is found that there is no increase in accidents. The Ontario Safety League will not the Government's plan here. I don't think the increased limit means increased accidents." afoty League is opposed to the raising of "the speed laws within municipalities. Brantford.--Brant and Brantford motorists, queried regarding their opinions on the proposed new legisla- tion to make the motor vehicles speed oppose trip through|' ng been as far south' ~ |as Georgia. He noted that many ~ | highways in the South allowed the 85] mile-an-hour speed, and. where highway began at the edge of a muni-! "Begin 35) "In Maryland," said Mr. Wyse, "I "was opposition to. signs announced: "Speed 86 - the Bureau of Statistics Reports Record Total of Canadian Victims During 1926. Ottawa, Jan, 9.~The level crossings of Canada took a record total of 127 lives during 1926, and caused injuries to 867 'others, according to statistics , compiled from the monthly reports . issued by the Railway Board. There were reported to the Board a total of 297 crossing accidents, and in 229 of them automobiles were involved. As recently as 1912 there was not 4 c accident in all Canada in which a motor ¢ar was concerned, ac- cordinig to available figures. The pre- vious. high total of crossing accident deaths was set in 1924 when 94 lives were lost in this manner, In the past 12 months 22 passengers ware killed on Canadian railroads, and AK OF DURING SUNDAY © MOVIE. Children Trampled to. Death in Mad Rush for Exi Montreal, © Jan. 9.-- Bodies of seventy-six, and possibly more, boys and girls lie lifeless on the floors of the Montreal Morgue. , A score of other children and a few adults, scar- red, crazed and burned, repose at four city hospitals. All are victims of a stampeds that followed a minor outbreak of fire this afternoon during a moving-picture show at the Laurier Palace, in the east end of the city. All evening the toll mounted, and journeys to the old grey mortuary chambers near the harbor. Long after the last wisp of steam and smoke had disseminated over the gaunt east end building which had been a tomb for may continue to mount hour after! hour as ambulances make still more' Mrs. John Thorburn Who Is dead at Ottawa at the age of 91. Mrs. Thorburn was a founder of the Women's Missionary Society and also of the National Council of Women. rr ---- bench, where Coroner McMahon, in- vestigator of crime and accident cases in Montreal for more than forty years asked each one particulars concerning '| heat, are only a few -{ bound to come about, a result of increased scientific re . ; ow New Process Tested. Hy Predictions of revolutions in energy sources have increased since the close ng of the recent International Cone ference on Bituminous Coal here, at which it developed that France and Germany had gone further than other countries in coal research. Attention is being directed, not to the mines as in the past, but to the laboraories, said a scientist, a layman- educator, a coal expert and a Govern. ment chemist. "Some processes which are talked about a great deal can be adopted profitably," sald Dr, Thomas 8. Baker, President of the Carnegle Institute of Technology and sponsor of the Inter national coal meeting, Wider Use of Gas. "There aro great déposits of lowe grade coal in America which, when subected to certain processes, can be transformed into higher-priced pro- ducts." Dr. Baker pointed out that the most dificult problem facing the coal men rosumgtion of neg. tivtions, when their representatives will put forward thelr request for an increase of 10 cents an hour. Their negotiations also will be resumed with the Railway Association the deceased. --e---- tn ig BRITISH AIR MINISTRY | COMPLETES AIR TRIP, limit on the highways 86 miles an hour, expressed themselves as bein in accord with the idea. The gener impression seems to be that the 25- 334 passengers were injured. In the same period 129 employes were killed and 1,741 injured, and others killed | totalled 275 and injured 555, this 50 many, mothers and fathers, broth- ers and sisters, tramped wearily from hospital to hospital. Some cried hysterically as they cre fe a von U.S: Factories on Border Issue Citizenship Mandate from a business standpoint is overpro- duction, "Abstract research," he added, "ls likely to be more profitable than soly- of Canada, The Canadian Brotherhood of Rail- road Employees aré looking to nego- tiations with the Canadian National Railways for a wage increase broach- ed to the company in August last. Their request. involves * 18,000 Can- adian National Railway employees, including office staffs, freight shed employees, roundhouse .men, ferry- - boat crews, etc., and is for a 10 cents per: hour incrense for hourly rated men and $20+a month for- month'y | rated mep, Negotiations are expected to open toward the end of this month between the Canadian National Raiways and representatives of some 800 employees in the seeping; dining and parlor car services of the railway. The employ- ees request" ; -of 'approxi: mately 12 per cent., as well as a uni- form schedule, instead of the four schedules for this cass of workers in _ use at present. s wage. requests of some 6,000 bic imo . railway: c.erks employ- * od on 'the Canadian Pacific 'Railway 'became the subject of the Board of Congjiiation proceedings toward the close of lash yead, wages and working conditions being the issues. The pro- ceedings, it is understood, are not yet completed. ©. ------m Tn Ontario -and' Quebec, which con: tain about 82 per cent, of the manu- facturing 'industry of 'the Dominion, | abont 90 per cent. of the total power demand, excluding steam railways, is met by water-power, 8 "TORONTO. oN ry Man. wheat--No. 1 North. $1.48; No, 2 Nerth., $1.42; No. 3 North, $1.37. . { * Man. oats--No. 2 CW, nominal; No.4 3, not quoted; No, 1- feed, 4 2 feed, nominal; Western grain quo! tions, in e.if Tolono. No.8 © Am. cori; track, nto--No. old yell "he; No. 3 cld yellow, 87¢; . No. 3, new. yellow, 85¢. i he Cok a Montreal freights, bags included: Bran, per ton, $32.25; shorts ton," $34.25; middiings ROIS Sa ; ntario oats, 50c, fob. points, Sad t. good milling wheat--$1.25 7 fo. shipping points, aceordi shipping "{ tubs, 16 to 17 to, do, cont; $4.50 to 35+ ng|eom. to red., $3 to §4 do, canners| {and buts : | -- __Torento, Ont.--Canadian mechanics and workmen employed in factories in border cities of the United States have been told that they must become Un- ited States citizens or lose their jobs. The result of this mandate from a number of employers in Detroit, Buf- falo and Cleveland, has been the re- turn to Toronto within the last month of a number of young men, according to W. 8. Dobbs, head of the empioy- 'ment service of Canada, ap en "A general overhauling of factories in the United States seems to be in progress," said Mr, Dobbs in discuse- ing the situation. "What is happen- ing is that employers are giving for- eign workmen the opportunity of be- coming citizens or losing their jobs, and it appears that there are a num- ber who would prefer to return to Canada than live in the United States." : : S_@ . L .Starts in Massachusetts . Boston.--With mingled high hopes and misgivings Massachusetts put into effect the first compulsory auto- mobile insurance law in the United States. Every automobi'e owner in the state, and there: 000 last year, before he can obtain a registra- tion. license for 1927 must post a bond to cover accident liabilities or show an insuranee policy covering the same risk. a A ners RL ts--Hams, med., 28 to eg + 42¢; smcked rolls, : breakfast bacon, 32 to Sie; backs, stent. 38 to 40c: : to 70 lbs, $22; 70 to 90 lbs., $20.50; 20% Ibs, and ap, $21.34; lightweight 'in barrels, = .50; heavyweight y per Lard--Pure tierces, 14% to 15%e ii in Jo 1 4 ; 8 ng tierces, 1% 'to 12c; tubs, 12% to 13% ; pails, 1% ithe eks, 143% to 14%e. {11 export steers, $7 to $7.75; Leavy. toes ood, $625 to 36.50; $3.60 $10; "to $1 $6.80; do; | concrete floors, of linseed oil, noon to-day. meats--Long clear bacon, 50 | Ph mile limit is too slow, and some motor- ists stated that this rule was seldom observed. London," Ont.--Police Magistrate Graydon and Chief of Police Birrell, as well as. other prominent citizens, declared in favor of the 35-mile-an- hour speed which the Ontario Dept. of Highways is to establish shortly. rm ere To prevent the forming of dust on wash the surface ciean; when dry, cover with a coating Sodium silicate (ordi- nary water-giass) can aiso be used for this purpose, although its wearing qualities are not so good #s the linseed oil. BY EMPIRE WIRELESS TELEPHONE THE DOMINION CAPITAL TALKS WITH BRITAIN. Sermon Preached at Ottawa Phone : With All Parts of Empire. Ottawa, Jan. 9--Empire wireless Comb hore 3.40 #0 $4.50 per doa. | telephone. connected Ottawa with ked Ta i 'Bridgewater, Somerset, England, at T. Ahearn, well-known Ottawa financier, picked up the tele one receiver at his home and "Cen- tral" informed him that "England de: sires-to 'speak to you, sir." "1 ately he heard the voice of R. N, Vy- vian, engincer-in-chief of the Marconi Company's long-distance communica- tion at Bridgewater. tion between the two was most dis- tinct. Mr. Ahearn afterwards spoke to Mr. Matthu, personal technical rep- resentative of Signor. } | minutes later, Oommahuler C. P. Ed- The 'conversa- A few classification including the victims of railway crossings. 'Plans for St. Lawrence Tunnel Are Submitted in Quebec Quebec.---Plans for the construction of a tunnel under the St. Lawrence River, between Montreal and Longue- uil, were submitted to Parliament by the Montreal Underground Terminal Co.,;" a million-dollar concern, which wil) be established for the carrying out of the project. The bil will be presented before the Legistature at the forthcoming session. wards, director of radio in the Marine and Fisheries Department, spoke from his home in Rockeliffe, this city, to Mr. Vyvian and! Mr. Matthu, after which J. Fred Booth and his son, J. R. Booth, also conversed with the same parties in England. The com- munication was_over the beam radio system between d' and Drum- mondville, Que., to which Ottawa was connected with the regular lonz- distance telephone. So distinct was the test that Mr. Ahearn turned on the loud speaker of his radio sst and Mr. Vyvian heard a 'minister in one of the local churches, whose sermon was being broadcast at the time. The dis- tance from Ottawa to Bridgewater is slightly under 3,500 miles. To-day's tests are in no way con- nected with the radiophone eommuni- cation inaugurated between New York and London on. Friday of last wie, rand foreshadow the opening up of di- rect telephone commumication to all parts of the Empire, It is a new and distinct inter-Empire 'project which it is. hoped to carry out 'through the Marconi beam system. , The first two stations to be buil: are at Bridgewater, Eng., and Drum- mandville, Others in the Im- perial chain are now being construct: ed in South Africa and Australia, El ER re ad. 35,0 found their little ones in safe care. Others left the last hospital with one more call to make. And the Morgue, enveloped in tho deathly stillness of a business district hushed? on the seventh dy, saw the ever-illing lines of taut-strung men, women and chil- dren, even, still searching and await- ing the worst. The mute and mutilated were taken in mid-afternoon from barely 30 feet long, leading from the eastern end of the theatra gallery to the street. Ten minutes encompassed the whole tragedy. Nearly all pulled cut of the sbair- way were dead. Two or three boys gave their names and died. Outside the police worked feverishly. While motor fire-pumps roared in ear-split- ting cacophony, as the interior blaze was attacked with tons of water, doc- tors were summoned. Frail little bo- dies were laid in rows on the sidewalk. Dead and injured were quickly separ- ated. Priests were on the scene, and the last rites were given to a few gasping little ones, who revived a lit- tle in tho open air and then died. Near-by fire and police stations be- came temporary morques. Ambulances rushed the injured to the various hos- pitals. The news spread, and soon hatless, anxious parents were on the run toward the theatre. Reinforced police were merciless to the curious, kindly and sympathetic to tha people who feared their little cnes were \in- side the building. They got little news. The safety forces of the city, and the hospital squads worked so quickly: that either hospitals or the morgue alone could answer the quer- ies, - Then the trek of tragedy from hos- pital to hospital, and then to- tha mor- gue began, Admitting officers at the four big hospitals were 'besieged for the names of the patients they had. The best was done for the questioners but there was need for tact, fer more were dying, and the rustle of the soutane was heard in more than one corridor. At tho end of the journey was the Morgue. Line after line of police re- pelled the insistent, near-crazed peo- ple who wanted to decide once Tor all if the loved ones were dead or missing. The scene in the little room of the Oorener's Court 'was unparalleled. A long line of weeping parents led to the ELECT RICAL EQUIPMENT BRIDGES THE OCEAN. New York. "Helo, London?" "Are you there, New York?" J Thus two human voices, by the grace of 'years of scientific research d $5,000,000 worth of complicated quipment, lex 18 either 8 con a stairway, INTERNATIONAL BANKERS TRANSACT BUSINESS TALKING ACROSS ATLANTIC Left Croydon, | England, on Dec. 27, and Covered 6,300 Miles in 63 Hours. Delhi, British India.-~A salute was firsd when the air liner Hercules made a graceful landing here, and Sir Samuel Hoare, Britsh Air Minister, and Lady Hoare, completed their air voyage from England. The last leg of the long flight was from Jodhpur. | Sir Samuel and Lady Hoare left Croydon, England, in tha Hercules on | Dec. 27. They concluded tha 6,300 miles in 63 flying hours. Field Marshal Sir William Bird- wood, Commander-in-Chief of the British Army in India, headed an im- posing assemblage of weleomers. Seon after landing Sir Samuel delivered to Lord Irwin, the Viceroy, a letter from the King. ing the everyday problems." A, C. Fisher, chief chemist of the United States Bureau of Mines, said he forsees the approach of the day son when gas will be used In nearly all homes to take the place of coal heat. Some of the porer class homes, he be- leves, will nse coke extracted from coal by a process of low carbonization distillation. Either course would elim. Inate the problem of smoke. Motor Fuel Possible. "Enough work hag bean done," he sald, "to show that when the need arises a gasoline substitute can he made for a Tow price not prohibitive for automotive use." C. E. Lesher, assistant to the Pre- eldent of the Pittsburg Coal Company, prodicted that research will devise a substitute for anthracite, oil, gasoline, and other processes for developing fuel, ren mt ann Command of Fleet to Pass Into Hands of Canadian Montreal.-~One of the few remain- ing appointments held in this country by English naval officers is shortly to pass into the hands of a Canadian. When Commander Massey Goolden, R.N., retires as Senior Naval Officer, of his Majesty's Canadian ships and/ establishments at Halifax on Jan. 80, it is said that he will be succeeded by] Lieutenant-Commander Victor C. Brodeur, R.C.N. While tha Department of National Defence at Ottawa have not as yet an- nounced the official appointment they have intimated that the routine orders: covering the promotion of Lieutenant- Commander Brodeur wiil be issued at an early date. | Commander Brodeur is the son of! the, late Hon. L. P. Brodeur, former Canadian statesman, jurist and finally Lieutenant-Governor of this province. iy Heavy Snowfall Quebec.--Forty-five inches of snow has fallen in the Ancient Capital so far this winter, it was learned from the Quebec Observatory. The latest storm, lasting two days, has been the! means of giving employment to] around 500 men. eS Se -- transatlantic radiophone service. Busi ness to the extent of more than $6,- 000,000 was transacted by internation- al bankers, speaking from telephonss in their own offices. A news agency received the first Sommerciul radio- telephone despatch from London. wd was officially opened at 8.44 a.m., when President Walter 8S. Gifford: of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co, took down the re- ceiver and asked to be connected with Sir G. Evelyn P. Murray of the Brit. General Postoffice. "Halt a minute later the two were talking, seated some 3,500 miles apart, with high seas, Western England, |, New England, and 6,300 miles of eir- cult route between them. It wag th least auspicious conversation of the day. For, despite its cérem tificance, static, the invisible gnem traceable f radiated speech, crashed 1 Within half an hour sending seemed | ho A smokeless solid fuel out of soft coal, he asserted, will be a future faci. The developments--of sich a fuel, he sald, wil make for steady mine opera- tion, more, finance and other signs of prosperity, F. W. Sperr, Jr, advisory fellow of the Mellon Institite of ladustrial Re- search, said coke, will become more generally appreciated through the cur- rent scientific investigations, < Duke and Duchess of York Start 34,000-Mile Journey Portsmouth, Eng..--~The Duke and Duchess of York, boarding the bettie cruiser Renown, on which the Prince of Wales made his great tour several years ago, started on their 84,009-mile globe-encircling voyage designed to tighten the bonds between the Mother Country and the Dominions. The Prince of Walas, Prince Henry and Prince George ware on hand, as well 'as most of the population of Portsmouth, to wish the pair God- speed. The Duke of York wil offi- ciate at the opening of the Common- weath Parliament at Canberra, the new Australian capital, The Renown was attired in its finest party dress of silver, which replaced the utilitarian batt'e-grey. The voyage shatters all naval tra- ditions, as a British warship for the first time is carrying women around ; the globe, the Duchess being accom- panied by two ladies-in-waiting. The University Report. Sir Robert Falconer has just issued the annual report of the University « Toronto, According to this there I last year 56,480 students proceeding' degrees or diplomas, 2,225 in ext sion courses and classes, over 14, In music, and some hundreds m affiliated colleges. Students come to the University of Ontario from county and district in the pro Some of the counties sending Ii numbers are as follbws: Wentwo 178; Simeoe, 156; York, 154; Carltor ; 106; Waterloo, 97; Ontario, 94; Wells ington, 81; Middlesex, 80; Huron, Brant, 76; Halton, 75; Grey, 72; coln, 68; Essex, 68, i we ore wera 2.926 students fy Arts; 808 ; 445 i j ; By sige Household es