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TO. PAY "If Ti Comes" THU RS., FRL, SAT. The Shugo $5 Mystery Play "RED LIGHTS" aac oS The Daily British Whig == LAST EDITION, YEAR 90; No. 248. MAY DECLARE' - FOR CHANGES, =z" Of Drastic Nature in Britain's co, - Fiscal System. OCTOBER 23, 1923. - ] |15¢ to 280 per 100 1bs. lower than | | the previous week with final sales at Hs. 75 to $Y per 100 1lbs., fed and ered, and select bacon hogs show - BI WON REE RE | LENNOX SEAT Toronto - prices Monday: oases CAN'T RETAIN | FREE TRADE =" =~" * $1356 t0 $16 abattotr hogs. 52 He Defeated Car Carlton Woods [to $16 By Majority of 590. IPREMER 15 CRATIED _jaxestox, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, $13,509,073 L LOSS wai sowoerrs A NEW FLAG | mes. | | | NOW FLYING USIR MARTIN HARVEY TO GIVE "OEDIPUS" | Arrives in New York for Am- erican Tour With Covent fo Garden Players. reve ------ Oct. 23.--S8ir John England's noted ac- 'London Editor Believes Pro- Lady | 'tection Will Gradually Develop Chicago, Oct Automobile ac- cidents in Chicago, of which there were 21,604 ip 1125 resulted in a | loss of $13,509,073, and this year's | total will he greatly in excess of that according to a report made by the mayor's safety ¢ommission The committee's report to Mayor | Dever, in' {isting the value of human | SAILING FOR CANADA. | Pl h Wartin Harvey. Over Yaris Pl aces in t e Ar-manager, accompanied by Rhiveland District. Harvey, arrived here yesterday on {i's Adriatic. for a four weeks® en- | agement in New Yerk in repertory, Sixth Party of - Domestics to Leave [ena a subseqnent tour which will in- England This Week. THE SECESSION HOVENENT London, Cet. 23.--A group of girls | Slide Montreal and Toronto. -- Th» and women hound for Canada, either important preduction will be PROPOSALS OF BALDWIN Are Predicted By London Ex press==May Entail a Gen- 0. London, Oct, 23.--What will Pre- mier Baldwin say on Thursday to query over which political here are agog with speculation, for it is felt generally that what he has to tell them is likely to have a vital hearing on British fiscal relations with the dominiops and the course of the imperial conference. The Daily Express forecasts that Premier Baldwin, at the Conserva- tive conference at Plymouth, will declare for changes in the British fiscal system sufficiently drastic to entail a general election. His pro- posals are predicted as follows: All round protection of home in- dustries by means of a scientific tariff. No tax on imported wheat Jor meat, with preference to the domin- fons. The revenue derived from a gelen- tific tariff would be devoted to sub- sidizsing shipping freights from Aus- tralia and New Zealand, giving a bounty on corn production, subsid: ing cotton growing within the em- pire and shipment of the raw cot- ton to Great Britain. ro The Express adds that "the Con- | NeSses have been servative party and those who guide its cotincils are by no means unani- mous es to the wisdom of taking a renewed plunge 'into the deep wat- ers of 'protection. » ¥en Sir Hbnry Thornton. Believes Railway Will Become 'Self-8upporting. Sherprooke, Que., Oct. 28, --"Wa must make a success of the Canadian National Railways if the dominion is not to ge bankrupt. We, cannot go | * on foréver having a fifty-million dol- lar deficit every year," doclared Sir Henry 'Thornton, chief executive of the C.N.R. yesterday at a luncheon tendered him in the new Masonic hail. . Bir Henry was very enthusiastic regarding the future of the railway system. "With a refusal to meet de- feat, I believe we will make the Canadian National Railways not on- ly self-supporting, but also a thing of influence in Canada," was his Pre- dietion, . Bank of River Caves In Mile East of Englehart Englehart, Oct. 23.--Ome of and most peculiar landslides na Ontario occurred on Sat- urday about 4 p.m. when a strip abput three-quarters of a mile long by about 500 yards wide on the bank of the White Clay river, on the sixth line of Evanturel, one mile east of Englehart, sank; blocking the river the full length of the break and shoving the . Government bridge about 100 feet from its place and standing it almost on end. the Damage estimated at $250,000 was caused By a fire which destroy-T ed the main buildings of the Swift Canadian packing plant at. Sapper- 5 ton, B.C., Monday. life at $3,000, declares that the | usual figure for a life loss is $5,000, but that 3.000 is used by the com- | mission in averaging mon, wom=n and children. The loss is divided as follows: 3,619 accidental deaths at an average of $3,000 each; 10,5610 serious injuries at $86 each; 17 A758 bodily injuries at $12 each; prop-! erty damage at $162 each or 3,619 | the chiefs of his party? This is the | Tatal accidents; property damage at | circles | $64 each on 10,610 serious accidents | ¥ | and property damage of $16 each 17,475 other accidents. PRISON ENQUIRY |: IS CONCLUDED: Detectives Are re Skil on the Trail of the Escaped . Convicts. The investigation which has Jeen conducted by Brig-Gen. W. Sg@Hugh- es, superintendent of the Dominion penitentaries, into the escape ¢f the five convicts from the Portsmouth penitentiary on -the morniig of September 10th, was conclided ay the prison 'on - Tuesday morning. General Hughes left for O/tawa on Tuesday afternoon. The investigation has been under way for the past two weeks and dur- sthe-authorities of the Bank of Nova 7 tectives om the trail of the robbers. ing that time a large number of wit- heard. General Hughes, when spoken to by' the Whig, stated that he had nothing to be given out to the public with the exception that the dominion and provincial police would still keep on the trail of the four convjets who are still at large. It is understood that Scotia, a branch of which the con- victs entered in Toronto, have de- General Hughes stated that the two guards who have been arrested during the past couple of days for trafficking with the convicts had no connection with the escape of the four convicts, KING ALFONSO OF SPAIN Who Is to visit South America next summer. It is apparently part of the new government's plan to court the in- terest and friendship of the Spanish republies in the new world. Spaniards In South America, whose families have been settled on that continent for a century past, are being given the privi- Jeg. of voting on affairs in Spain by Four Liberals were returned In the Quebec provincial by-elections cf Abitibi, Yamaska, Brome and Rich- mond, : The Prince -of Wales will make visit to South Africa in spring. British emigrants' rush is now on to the United States. MARCELINE @ALROYS On "Worrying Women!" A WOMAN, To be HAPPY, Must be DECEIVED: Most HUSBANDS will Do this FOR THEM, : But SHOULD they ail-- "All women : Are obliging enough _. Mo deceive THEMSELVES. What a woman WANTS 18 something » wv To WORRY:OVER, it she has a Lamily. s FLENTY) Ah p+ If she HASN'T, She generally imagines That ber husband is" An infant IN ARMS, And if he is Not with HER, She starts to WONDER, If she has PROOF She is VERY unhappy; If she has no proo1; She still isn't HAPPY-u - Bat by being miserable, She generally manares To have quite's good time ¥ x ~ on | o * * + * > ® sion of government buildings 'Spreadng Wi Almost No Blonished--Loyalists Con- fol Aix a Chapelle. (AXLE RE EIEE EER EEYY + THE SEPARATISTS GENER ALLY DEFEATED # % , Berlin, Oct. 23.--Raports #/from various points in the 4 Rlinelanl this afternoon indi- LJ cate the separatists have been + ¢ generally defeated, especlally » at Aix la Chappelle, Muen- | chen, Gladbach and Bonn. At # Aix la Chapelle, they were sev- + erely beaten by the trades un- ionists- and then ejected from #% the public buildings, which # | they had been holding since midnight, Saturday. & SEPP PPPPPP PORN F London, Oct. 23.--The separatist movement in the Rhineland .is ex. tending steadily with almost no blood shed, says a Berlin despatch to the-Exchange Telegraph. The green, white and red flag of the secessionists * now flies - over Wiesbaden, Erkelenz and Bénsberg, while the capture of Bonn is expect ed momentarily. Coblenz and May- ence are still in possession of the loyalists and municipal officials con- tinue to function at Aix laChapelle where quiet prevails. The corres- pondent says an attempt to extena the movement to Treves failed. . The French have given the mayor of Mayence a free hand to deal with the separatists. Expelled From Aix la Chappelle. London, Oct. 23.--A Berlin mes- sage to the Central News this after- noon gays: "A telegram from Aix la Chapelle says the police succeeded this morning in expelling the repub- licans from the town and regaifiing | ¢ complete mastery of the situation. It is not known if any casualties oc- curred." Trouble In Hamburg. London, Oct. 23.---Bands of com- munists made concerted attacks on the pclice stations of Hamburg to- day, says the Berlin correspondent of the Central News. The commun- ists occupied all. except three of the stations: which at the time the de- spatch was filled (about noon) were still holding out. Strikes have been proclaimed In Vulkan; Jansen and Schulineki dock- yards in Hamburg, the correspond- ent asserts. The city authorities are distrihut- ing food to the starving working people. Britain To Maintain Order. London, .Oct. 23.--If thé German separatist movement extends to Col- ogne, which is the bridgehead. of the British Rhineland army, Great Britain will preserve an attitude of reserve, but will take every measure to maintain order, prevent blood- shed and insure the continuance of the present local government, it was stated here today. In Wiesbaden Also. Berlin, Oct. 23.--The colors of the Rhinoland republi¢ were hoisted during the night on the German go- vernment buildings at Wiesbaden by a band of the followers of Dr. Hans A Dorten, leader of the previous Rhineland republic movement, whose home Is in Wiesbaden. A special despatch from that city states that the Wiesbaden. police were disarmed and locked up in their barracks. A crowd which ga- thered in front of the government headquarters, was fired on by seces- sionists who wounded ten persons, the message adds. A general strike was proclaimed by the trades unicns. The . separatists also have posses- in Bonn. Republic in Duisburg. _ Brussels, Oct. 23. -- A Belgian of- ficlal news agency telegram from Duisburg. today states: that a repub- lic was proclaimed there and public buiMings were occupied by separa- tists early this morning. The Countess of Warwick will stand as the Labor candillate for Werfrick and Leamington division of Wa kshire in the by-elect made \necessary owing tg the el tion of' Sir Ernest Pollock to the judicial 'bench. Norris 'P. Bryant; stock brokef, Montreal, was found guilty of ap- propriating for his own use 50 "- |-shares of 'Canadian Cottons, depos- ited at his office, and the. praperty Quebec. %| aor * | % | >» [at of "Oedipus Rex," by Sophocles | which will be presented at the Cen- j tury Theatre here next Thursday { evening in the same elaborate fash- {fon as at Covent Garden, in London, Jan it was dirceted personally by | Prof. Max Reinhardt. Professor Gil- { bert Murray did the translation. { With Sir John came 40 members of {the Covent Garden Co., who will | | enact the more important roles and {| ferve as mob leaders. The remain {in all over 200 have beon trafnc! | {-heré in the thrilling ensemble scones { with which the production abounds. | | sir John's great trins-Atlantic ven- | ture is under the sponsorship of the L'Mesars. Shubert. | In addition to "Oedipus Rex," the cther plays in the, repertory to be presented here and on tour are, "The Taming of the Shrew," von Hoffmansthall's "Via Crueis," Maa- + | tertineics "The Burgomaster of * Stilemonde," and "Hamlet." ring January Tth. BERLIN RELEASES FLOUR | HELD FOR EMERGENCY USE to Ea the Bread uation. ve Berlin, Oct. 23 --In view of the seriousness of the situation generally and continued 'reports from various points of food riots, the government has decided to release immediately the comparatively small reserve sup- phes of flour whitk had been stored and originally intbaded for emerg: ency use during the winter. Officials express the hope that the release of the flour will have a ten- lency: to relieve the conditions brought about when the government abandoned substitutes to the bakers, which for years had kept down the price of bread. The bakers main- tain, however, that there is not enough reserve flour in storage to as they ape concerned," Many bakers in Berlin and other cities have announced that they are un- able longer to finance their business, but they will keep their ovens hot on certain days for customers who bring their dough for baking. The price of a loaf of bread to- morrow in Berlin will be 'wo billion five hundred million marks. Stinnes Threat to Close Mines Regarded "Bluff" Duesseldorf, Oct. 23.--The repor:- €d threat of Hugo Stinnes to clos? all, the mines in the Ruhr unlees the French guvernment offers better terms to the Germans with regard to a resumption of industry, is regard- ed by tho French here as a bluff. The French say that if Stinaes gauts down operation it will be a manoeuvre to compel the workmen tc submit to harder conditions and rot because of inability to operat: under French terms. It was addel that the Stinnes group could mest the French terms as well as could the | Phoenix and Rheineeche Stahl- werke companies; whose stocks have not suffered on the Berlin stock ex- change through their recent agree- went to deliver reparations' coal far fosaren. Ts to be made by police for the clothing of Russell Campbell. the bandits' victim at Melbourne. A special court is asked to try Mur- rell and Williams. of the cast which will number | |The Winter "Stock is Let Go | Canadian Bacon Higher | American bacon BRITISH FISCAL SYSTEM Must Be Balanced And Not Merely Changed, Charles to take up work as domestic helpers, or to join memhcrs of ther tam flies already scttied in the Domi nion, are sailing on the Andonia this week. ~ A few of the party are girls with clerical experience as typists or see- Garvin Says. London, | Oct. 23.--Fundamental ver. He declares that the system | must be balanced and not merely | | changed, following matured decision! | after adequate discussion and urges {the dominion premiers to give Great | Britain time for worrying out her immense problems rather, than force bigger issues prematurely. The writer. excoriates Sir John Simon's attempt to make political capital out of the increased prefer- | | ence on raisins and currants, saying | 'Catch-vote stunts about currant buns are regarded with no more re- The COMPInY will appear in Mont- | spect than the thimble and pea game. real -at His Majosty's Theatre [or |If "we have nothing more two weeks beginning December 24th, | and in Toronto at the Royal Alexan- | deeper analysis of the relatiosi be- dra Theatre for three weeks begin- | tween work and food, serious than the 'tax-on-food' cry, without the jigging monotony of these sewing machine frais will rouse little interest out- | side the shrunken tabernacle of tha! etre "zhier sect of divided Liberalism' i men and women will vote more | and more either Unionist or Labor." World More Protectionist, Garvin: declares that the world is becoming more Protectionist than Free Trade, and says that Britain's dependence om unconditional free imports deprives her of a weapon of negotiation which under the eircum- stances would have a tremendous ef- fect economically and politically-- it would even be a means of forcing a reduction in world armaments. If unemployment is not largely re- duced soon Garvin believes that free imports will be impossible to main- tain, for even the working class would refuse to support them. The | Conservative party alone cannot hope to solve the problem, and or- thodox Liberalism will never face'it and so dwindle in eonsequencs. Gar- vin expects thgt the Labor party, af- ter a flerce and internal! controversy will grapple with the fiscal probiem and settle it in line with the policy materially relieve the situation. as of Australia. 'Tariffs," Garvin daclares, 'are never coming down unless Britain trings them down by resuming home measures of res: iction and exclusion in order to sacure better cems for work whereby she lives. This is go- ing to be the principal iszue, not only | deméstie but international." On the other aand he begs Bruce | aldwthecotheér premiars to refiect on tie different aspects. Britain. must mak: the best oi 2ommercial s} heres outside the Empire as well as within for the sake 2° both the nother couittry and tos dominions ANOTHER ADVANCE IN BACON PRICES! in British Markets--Local Hog Prices Low. Montreal, Oct. 22.--The feeling that prevailed in the British market for bacon last week Has since developed into strength according to | latest cable advices received and prices for Canadian grades in boxes | have scored an advance of 8s to 10s per cwt., and in bales of 7s to| 8s per cwt., which was attributed to the increased demand and the rather | small offerings with sales of leanest, lean and prime grades. Im boxes at | £0s to 92s per cwt, and in bales at 90s to 94s per cwt. The markets for have also been stronger and prices are 4s per cwt. higher, with a steady demand at 78s | 'to- 828 per ¢wt. The advance in Danish bacon has been 6s to 10s per cwt, to 100s to 104s per cwt., and Irish bacon was quoted at 100s to 104s per cwt. At Toronto last week packers were only bidding $8.35 per 100 Ibs, for graded hogs, fed. and watered, but on Monday and Tuesday the bulk of the sales were made to outside buy- ers at $8.66 per 100 Ibs, however, as few of the latter operators were on the market at the close of the week, the packers price of $8.35 per 100 Ibs. was ace , and a prem- ium of 80c¢ per 100 bs. wus paid for Selects. "It was announced that the bonus for fed and watered hogs was "110 be reduced 'mmediately from 6c to 50c per 100 Ibs. There was fur- ther weaknees in the Winnipeg mar- ket, and prices closed with a net de: | cline of 50¢ per .100 1bs., final sales. of thick sm ¥aria and $8 per 100 Tbe. ted and The Montreal market for thick | smooth SNA yngraded.- buss. cloned | secretary for the firmer | retaries, who iook across the seas | for wider scope as damestic workers. This is the sixth party of girls and changes in the British fiscal system ! lare fcrecast by Charles Garvin in a | | three-column editorial in the Obser- women to be conducted to Canada | this year, under tho auspices of the Overseas Settle- | ment of British women. TOBACCO SIGN ISTO REMAIN City Council So Decrees-= Homes Dispute With City Again Aired. THe city council"on Monday even- ing held its first regular session since | its Juno adjournment. j ofeupled the larger 'portion of the discussion. One was with reference {to the tobacco score board sign on the cricket field which the Womea's | Christian Temperance Union has on |seyeral occasions asked removed. | The sign was erected as a gift from {the Sir W. C. Macdonald tobacco | company by permission of Ald. Rob- ertson, chairman of the parks cAm- | mittee. Ald. Robertson said that the !late Sir W. C. Macdonald had® con- ferred . great ; land when the company's local re- | Presentative offered to 'donate a j baseball scoreboard to the city baso- ball teams he gave permission for its erection. Alds. Anglin and Chown claimed | that there was no reason why the | board should remain en the field | after the baseball season. It was people, and besides 't was wrong 'or the .city council to permit advertis- ing signs in its parks. On a yea and nay vote being taken, | & motion of Alds. Anglin and Chown was defeated hy 12 to 6 as follows: Yeas--Alds Anglin, Kent, McCartney, Nash. Nays--Mayvor Angrove and Alds. Driscoll, J. 'Holder, W. ston, Kelly, Kidd, Laturney, Peters, | Frice, Robertson and Sargent. | On motion of Ald. Robertson, the | request of the Local C cl of Wo- men that the 'trees In the parks he labelled was not acted upon as the {rarks committee has no funds. ------ Orphans' and Infants' Homes. Ald. Anglin again iptroduced the ¢uestion of the dispute between the | city' and the managements of the | Orphans' and Infants' Homes -with regard to payment for the care of | wards of th: Children's Aid Society. st Mayor Angrove said that the'gues- tion was still in the hands of tha jeity solicitor and the legal represen- | | tative of the societies. W. M. Nickle, | who had acted for the societies, had | become disgusted, he said, and had | | had also taken up the matter. for the societies and had intimated to the | | mayor and the city clerk that the [city's stand with regard to the amounts placed in the budget as | | Bath. . Two matters | | the present time | gave the [people an benefits upen Canada | giving offence to a portioh of tle: | calling for the removal of the sign | Boyd, Chown, | Holder. John- | given up the job. Hon. W. F. Nickie | Over Return of Riding to Tory Fold---Amherst Is= - ~Jand Voted Liberal. - Napanee, Oct. 23.--The Liberal tenure, of this riding was brief, C. H. Hambly, standard-bearer of the Conservative party recaptured the Tory stronghold of Lennox yesterday with a majority of 590.as compared with. a Liberal lead of 117 won by the late Dr. Vrooman &t the generat election in June last. The Conserva- tive candidate led over Carlton Woods in every subdivision with the exception of Amherst Island. His majority in this town was 89. The majorities are as follows: Woods Hambly Amherst Island... 30 Adolphustown 36 42 191 49 159 89 . 62 North Fredericksburg. South Fredericksburg. Ertfiesttown: . Napanee. . | Richmond ares ee ve se ae Premier Ferguson Gratified. Toronto, Oct. 23.-- "Phe. govern- ment' feels," gaid Premier Ferguson last night, when the result was knows, "that this is an endorsation of the course we have pursued up to It is very much gratifted because the issue was put plainly before the people, not only by myself but hy other ministers, It opportunity te. pronounce upon the government's actions in the three or four months it has been in office." - KERR REV. PROF. F. W. Ontario' To address conventions of Sunday School Association. The cons vention for the .eastern part of the province being held at Napanee, and for _ the western part, Stratford, this week, = ---------------- LIQUOR PLEBISCITE IN ALBERTA NOY. STH Dry and Wet Force Forces Have Em= barked on Final Dbive of Campaign. Calgary, Alta. Oct. 22.-- Alberta's {dry and wet forces have embarked {on the final drive in preparation for | the liquor plebiscite that will be held { November 5th. Dr. Michael Clark, grants to the societies was correct-- that the amounts were simply esti- 'mates and not grants. - Just now is acting for the | tormer M.P. for Red Deer, is the | chict platform exponent for the | "Moderation League" while the { chureh and women's orgarizations { Francis King, K.C., lots being made at and watered. societies, Ald. Nash moved, seconded by Ald. Kidd, that the societies be paid the! | amounts mentioned in the budget as grants. Alds. Anglin and Boyd moved in | amendment that the societies each ! {be paid $500 on account of their {and had | per diem charges for wards. The | amendment was carried. ance" committee had offered to pay the societies $500 on account of their | charges, but they had refused this. He hoped that the two sclicltors would soon be able to come to an! agreement. The city was willing to pay what it justly owed, but it ob- jected to paying the societies a grant and per diem charges also. a w Hickson Avenuné¢ Mail. .. Ald. E=lly again drew the atten- tion of the eouncil tc the fact that the people from Stephen sircet out to Hickson avenue have no street (Continued on. page 7.) At Athens a military rising has |. broken out. mutineers are esti- mated at | thousand and have perninment / which includes six can- fee trainmen were injured n & head-on collision at Quorn Station, Manitoba, Canadian National Ran- | prohibition party. er British Labor M.P., Mayor Angrove said that the fin-! | are furnishing the oratory Zor the Dr. Clark made his first speech of the campaign at' | Medicine Hat on Friday and argued | that prohibitory law cannot replace self control. He claimed that pro= hibition was contrary to sivilization led 'to the hattering of | many laws. Tom Richardson, form=: nas been the: drys chief speaker and Iie hes 2p gued that his experience in the OIF intry has strengthoned his belief f That prohibition will be the salvation | of Canada. None of the newspapers of the province is supporting the wel cause, They are taking tie attituda' that the people understand th: i sues véry clearly and that it 's up 1% the electorate to give the Alberig government a mandate Which, must be obeyed. . At a meeting of a English Foot | 'ball Association; Monday afternoon, a request for membership from the Dominion of Canada Football Ase sociation was granted. "The schooner Columbia' has lott": Gloucester, 'Mass., for Halifax, to compete in the international fish man's trophy series with the dian schBoner Bluenvse, ut Hon. James Lyons advocates bighway from Boo to Winnipeg will start engineers surveying.