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CAPITOL | NOW SHOWING The HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE UF NOTRE DAME ; CAPITOL NOW SHOWING The HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME Che Daily British Whig) YEAR 91; No. 74. KINGSTON, Eo ONTARIO: TH v RSDAY, MARCH 27, 1024. LAST EDITION ONTARIO HOUSE BUSY Discussing Many Different Sub- jects on the Estimates, THE LIBERAL LEADER ects to the of Gov- Wok pi Late Toronto, March 27.--The legisla- ture spent yesterday afternoon in discussing many different subjects on estimates. A. Belanger (Liberal, Ruseell), speaking on English- French training schools for teachers of French schools, thought that stu- dents should be kept in their home school sections for fifth form work if it was avallable, instead of being 'sent far away from home to the modal schools where their board was paid. "Fittk form work In the local schools, he said, should be encouraged. The prime minister, who is also minister of education, stated that the percentage of qualified tea- chere in French-English schools was increasing gradually, but greater progress was desired. Hon. F. C. Biggs asked if the gov- ernment had anything in mind about the construction of a large office building. The premier said there was nothing Immediate decided upon, but that it was in the minds of the gov- ernment to erect a large bulding on a Queen's Park site. It had been figured, he sald, that the amount now paid in rents would pay the in- terest on the cost of such a building. Mr. Biggs said that plans for such a structure on a unit plan were already in the department. A pew item of $100,000 appeared in the estimates for a boys' home at Bowmanville. It was explained by Hon. Lincoln Goldie, provincial sec- retary, that J. H. Durie, of Bowman- ville, had presented $10,000 for the purchase of a farm for boys. The government &upplemented this and 308 acres had been bought for the home. Work would be started in a day or two. Already one jrivais i would dlso be establish- ed. The government will not con- trol the farm directly. A board of management will be appointed upon which the government will have a representative. The home is to he modelled on the Shawbridge School in Quebec. Engineering Estimates. Hon. F. C. Biggs pointed out that In public works engineering estimat- es there was no reduction made al- though the minister had stated some time ago that he would save $100,- 000 in reducing the highway engi- neering staff. The premier, replying, said that the engineering staff cost was cut in half, and more would be saved in the department by the eli- mination of 75 motor cars used by various officials. Mr. Biggs did not think that the deputy minister of highways, S. L. Squire, should be a member of the @xecutive of the Canadian Good Roads Association as well as deputy. The premier could see no reason why he should4't be an officer in the as- sociation. Mr. Biggs complained about the increase inygrant to the Canadian' Association, claiming they had so much money that last year they voted their officers a honus. He also claimed that Mr. Squire accept- ed his bonus at the time he was deputy minister of roads for Ontario. The premier said he would make in- quirfes. Dr. Box's Discovery, On health estimates, Hon. Dr. | Forbes Godfrey said that Dr. Box's discovery was being made known to dentists, and that it would work out for the benefit of the people. Hon. Mr. Biggs spoke in commenda- tion of the medical inspection in rural schools, claiming that it would do muck to Improve the general health of the province. Hon. James Lyons, minister of lands and forests, announced that the department was considering opening up two reforestry stations in Northern Ontario, one to be in Muskoka. Before the house adjourned sev- eral government bills were intro- duced. Ome is & new bill, to be known as the Ontario Hotels Act, 'Which defines what an hotel is, as distinct from a boarding house. It will also classify hotels, but leaves most of the features to regulation rather than legislation. An addition is made by a mew bill to the Work- men's Compensation Act, whereby the board may assist in getting in- jured workmen back to work and take the cost out of the general fund. Hon. Charles McCrea intro- duced a bill to elevate the status of the commissioner who settles min- ing disputes to that of a judge. oe 'bill will establish a mining court, and the federal government is being with the proper power, , Sinclair, Liberal leader, pro- asked to clothe the new | tested 1 at the deluge of government legislation so late in the session. The premier explained that it had become a habit of people to walt until the legislature opened before they made requests for amendments to law. There would be two more important measures to come down, be said, and he hoped to have them in this week. A bill was introduced by SW Adam Beck that in matters of a street railway any legislation chang- ing any features of the franchise rights shall not hold after the ex- piration of a franchise period. At the end of each franch!se period the original franchise terms come into effect automatically, and amend- ments made within the period are not further effective. COST OF HUDSON'S BAY TERMINUS WORK Will Be $20,538,000--0Can- ada's Military Expenditure Is Very Low. Ottawa, March 27.--An expendi- ture of approximately $20,538,000 will be necessary at Port Nelson, the proposed terminus of the Hudson's Bay Railway €ompany, in order to aocommodate ten 7,000-ton ships. Answering a series of questions by T. W. Bird (Progressive, Nelson), Hon, George P, Graham, minister of railways, gave this figure as the estinfated cost of harbor work at Port Nelson. Of this total amount $4,600,000 is the estimated cost of a 4,000,000-bushel elevator, and $400,000 the cost of the railway vard and terminal buildings. The lighthouse crib at the entrance of the harbor is given as costing $300,- 000. Easter Recess Dates. Paster holidays in the House of Commons will extend this year from April 16th to 22nd. A motion to this effect, brought down by the Prime Minister, was. adopted in the House pfter some discussion, in which Rob- ert Forke, Progressive, suggested that a nine-day adjournment would give farmer members an opportun- ity to visit their farms in the West. He did not press the point, and the motion passed unamended. The branch lines bills will be de- bated in the House on Tuesday next. Hon. George P. Graham yesterday gave notice to this effect that resohu- tions preparatory to the introduction of twenty-six bills were read; involv- 18g 28 separate branch lines to be built at a total cost of $28,311,300. For Milrtary Defence. Hon. E. M. MacDonald, Minister of Defence, furnished the House with comparative per capita figures of expenditure on military defence in the different parts of the Empire. The figures were: Canada, $1.46 pe head; New Zealand, $2.33; Souti. Africa, $2.92; ° Australia, $3.30; Great Britain, $15.32. The absence of 48 Progressive members from the House of Com- mons Tuesday night is explained by the championship hockey match. The western members were at the Audi- torium rooting for Calgary, while their chief was in the House stand- ing up practically alome with the Conservative Qpposition against the Government. PERMANENT OFFICE FOR MR. LEMIEUX Government May Propose That He Retain Speakership of Commons. Ottawa, March 27.--That the Gov- ernment may propose before its term of office expires that the Hon. Ro dolphe Lemieux, at present Speak- er of the House of Commons, be made permanent in his office, is within the range of probability. It this proposal is made, it is Illkely to be received with favor by all par- ties, in view of the satisfactory man. ner in which Mr. Lemieux has dis- charged 'the duties"of his high of- tice since his party came into power. The present system of electing a Speaker is considered by many as undatisfactory, as, with a change of Government, the Speaker also changes. The result is that the ex. perience gained in office is lost to the House of Commons; with the resultant loss in the manner in which the rules of the House are in- terpreted. It is a well known face that the present Speaker was offer- ed a portfolio by Premier King in 1921, but that his inclination lea him to accept the office of Speaker, the duties of which he has carried out with great tact and ability. It is felt by many members that as Mr. Lemieux has been nearly thirty years in the House of Commons, considering his experience as a cab- inet minister dnder Sir Wiltria Laurier, and as Speaker since 1921, | he should be permanently enrolled in the service of his country. It is also felt that his knowledge of both languages is of inestimable value in facilitating the proceedings of the House. ---- A by-law for daylight saving from May 4th till Sept. 27th was passed by St. Catharines council, RIVER LEVEL | IS IN PERIL Chicago's re Action De- nounced in House of Commons. ACTION IS DEMANDED All Papers on International Ne- gotiations Are To Be Tabled. "Ottawa, March 27.--The diversion of water from Lake Michigan by the Chicago Sanitary District was the subject of & protest by members of all political parties in the House of Commons yesterday. As member at ter member rose to speak, it became clear that there was no division of opinion on the matter. T. L. Church, Conservative member for North Toronto, brought the matter to the attention of the House by moving for "definite and immediate action to prevent the {illegal diversion o. the waters of the Great Lakes through the Chicago drainage canal, and that action should be taken to prevent further waste and to secure specific enforcement of the treaty between Canada and the United States as to this matter." The opinion of an eminent au- thority that the St. Lawrence River and Lake Erie might be reduced some day to the level of a duck pond if the diversion continued, was cited by Mr. Church." Other mem- bers stressed the importance of preserving the lake levels for the movement of freight and the pre servation of harbors. The boundary waters treaty between Canada and the United States was being used as a football to the detriment of Canada's commercial development, it was argued. That the situation was serious was admitted by Hon. Charles Stewart, Minister of the Interior. Canada had never admitted the right of the Chicago Sanitary district to diver. the water, and had made repeated protests to the Government of the United States, Question of*Reparations, General A.B. Ross, of Kingston, | inquired whether Canada proposed to ask for reparations in view of the damage done to Canada by the di- version. The minister replied that to claim damages meant an accept- ance of the diversions, and these Canada had never admitted to be proper. Two facts had been brought out by the discussion, said E. Guss Por- ter (Conservative, West Hastings). The first was that there had been a steady diversion at Chicago; second- ly, the only thing that had been done to remedy this wrong was that the Canadian Government had pro- tested. Surely Canada had not gon into a position whereby she uttered protests which either were ignored or were replied to and then forgot- ten. The time had come when the question of the jurisdiefion over the waters of the Great Lakbs should be decided. The relations between Can- ada and the United States were most amicable at present. Therefore, this would be a good time to decide a matter which might later 'de- velop into a very serious interna- tional difficulty. On the motion of Sir Henry Dray- ton, former minister of finance, the depate was adjourned until all papers' concerning the negotiations between the United States and Can- ada on the question of water diver- sion at Chicago could be laid on thes table of the House. EVERY SEVENTH WOMAN, In Germany is Doomed to be an Old Maid. Berlin, March 27.--Every seventh woman in Germany is doomed to be an old maid. There simply are not men enought to go around, and, to make the situation worse, most of the emigrants who are seeking for- tunes in foreign lands are men of marriageable age. Hence the ap- peals in newspaper advertisements for husbands, and the alluring offers of women with furnished houses and established businesses for spouses. All in all there are 15,000,000 more women than men In Europe, but the shortage of males is greater in Germany than in any other coun- try. In Austria and Hungary every fitth woman is doomed to single blessedness. Bulgaria and Rumania are the only European countries which have a surplus of men. There are only 985 women to every 1,000 men in Rumania, and in Bulgaria men outnumber women at the ratio of 1,000 to 997, The Paris Louvre has received from Syria a harp,' the strings of which have been mute for 3,700 Years. It was unearthed om the banks of the Euphrates by the Archaeologist Franz Cumont. Hon. Jacques Rureau, Minister of Customs, fll at his home in Three MOTORIST HELPS WOMAN AND THEN KILLS HER ---- After Making an Attack--A Horrible Crime on Staten Island. New York, March 27.--Mrs. Maud Bauer, 31, was murdered yesterday on a lonely road on Staten Island, near Mariner's Harbor, evidently by a man who a few moments before had volunteered to assist her and her mother, whose automobile was stuck in the mud. Medical examiners said Mrs. Bauer first was attacked and then stabbed. Thé murdered woman, with her mother and two children, was motor- ing homeward when, to a%oid a truck, she drove into 8 mud puddle and became stuck. As she worked to extricate the car a youth drove up and offered to take Mrs, Bauer to a distant farmhouse to get assistance. She accepted. Half an hour later the mother, Mrs. Spero, saw the youth returning in his automobile. He sped past and Mrs. Spero, becoming anxious, took the children and started walking along the road. Just beyond a curve Mrs. Spero found her daughter, with clothing disarranged, lying a few feet from the road with a deep wound in her chest, A passing motorist hurried for a surgeon but Mrs, Bauer died soon after his arrival, X SIR -EDMUND WALKER PASSES IN TORONTO He Was a "Noted Canadian Financier and Patron of ~ Art and Music. March 27.--At two o'clock this morning, Sir Edmund Walker, aged seventy-six years, noted Canadian financier, patron of art and music, and president of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, died at his home, 99 St. George street, of pneumonia. He had been ill only a few days, and the éad came with startling suddenness. Sir Bdmund took to his bed last Saturday, a heavy cold having de- veloped. into pneumonia. No alarm was felt until near the end, but dur- Toronto, __4LATE SIR EDMUND WALKER ing last night his condition became serious. His end was peaceful. His four sons and three daughters were at his bedside. Lady Walker died last year. > 8id Edmund's last sil was the only serious one of his life. While travelling with the Mendelssohn choir he suffered an attack of indi- gestion with. a cold, which con- tinued when he returned to To- ronto, Symptoms of pneumonia de- veloped on Monday. Sir John Aird, vice-president of the Bank of Commerce, when in- formed of the dealth of Sir Edmund, sald that the mews, came as a great shock. "Above all Sir Edmund was a great Britisher," he said. "He Was a man of many parts, prominent not only in finance, but in educa- tion, art and music, His loss is a great blow to banking in Canada." Sir Edmund Walker was born in Seneca township, Haldimand coun- ty; in 1848, and entered the Bank of Commerce as discount clerk in 1868. Will Welcome Other Disarmament Pacts | rels Washington, March '27.--The United States will be quick to em- brace any opportunity in the future for further agreements on disarma- Thomas Gemmell, steel worker ment. It would be glad now to have the suggestions of the Wash- ington conference which were not adopted, met. These statements, made yesterday, at the White House, outline Presi- | WAR POWERS As the Result of London Tram And Bus Strike. BRITISH GOVERNMENT IsR As Considering Pro- Lit 'A Condition of Na- tional Emergency." London, March 27.--So seriously does the government regard the situ- ation created by the continuance of the tram and bus strike, and the apparently inevitable entry of the subwaymen into the fight tomorrow night, according to several morning papers, that the privy council has been called for today to consider proclaiming "a cendition of nation- al emergency." Some of the papers go so far as to say that the issuance of a proclamation has already been decided upon. If a state of emergency is pro- claimed, it will be under the provi- sions of the Emergency Powers Act of 1920, which, when invoked, con- fers upon the government virtually the same powers ad the wartime De- fense of the Realm Act. It enables the government to make wide and compulsory provisions for the safety and life" of the community, includ- ing the takihg over control of pub- lic services, using the army and navy lorries, therefore, and commandeer- Ing private vehicles and materials for the same purpose, ARE NOT THE BONES "OF A HUMAN BEING Montreal Cellar Dug Into-- Medium Said Small's Body Was There. Montreal, March 27.--Impelled by sobbing "release me, release me," wafted to her by an ever-haunting veice which she declares is that of Ambrose Small, vanished million- aire, Toronto theatrical magnate, C. Bonsor, psychic medium of Toronto, came to Montreal yester- day and told detectives they would find Small's bones if they dug up the earth cellar of a St. Antoine street rooming house at a spot di- J rectly bemeath the sink in the kit- chen above. A trench was dug at that very spot. Bones were re- vealed and submitted to Dr. De- rome, city autopsist, who announced afier examining them that they Were not those of a humap being. ---- -- --" EXPORTS OF WHEAT, The Higher U.S. Duties Have Had Little Effect. Ottawa, March 27.--That the high- er duty on wheat entering the United States will not have much effect on exports thereto, is evident from the February shipments across the line, which amounted to orn!y 101,714 bushels. As a matter of fact, little - Switzerland took slightly over nine times as' much wheat during last month as the United States did. Total exports of wheat to the United States for the last eleven months have been 21,150,000 bush- els, or about 25 per cent. more than during the preceding year. At that they were only about 5,500,000 bu- shels more than those to Italy, and about 10,000,000 bushels more than to Belgium. China has taken 2,680,- 000 bushels, and Japan about 6,800,- 000 bushels during this time. The export trade in flour to the United States is falling off rapidly, it having been only 190,000 barrels for the eleven months ending Feb- ruary, as against 500,000 for the same period a year ago, and 990,- 000 for the same period two years ago. During the past year, Ger- many has been our second best cus- tomer for wheat flour, having taken 1,647,000 barrels in eleven months. How big an Increase this is may be seen in the fact that two years ago she took only about 25,000 barrels. Last month shipments to the coun- try alone were nearly 240,000 bar- ' Heir to be Disappointed. Vancouver, B.C, March 27.-- 1 Pittsburgh, Pa., is due for a big ad appointment. Dispatches received from Pittsburgh sald Gemmell haa fallen heir to an estate of $200,000 left him by his brother, Johm, of Nanaimo, B.C. T. K. Gray, manager dent Coolidge's view on the amend-| of a trust company, of this city, now ment to the navy appropriation bill states Thomas will receive but omne- recommending a new discussion for | ninth of the estate, which is vajued limiting armaments. He feels the time is not ripe now but conditions may become more favorable later on. He believes also there is a field for accomplishment in the codification of international law, in which this government, it was pointed out, always has been Interested. Rumania, France, Belgium, Greece and Russia owe approxi- mately $50,000,000. Fortunately Rivers verin, Russia owes only $54,571 to Gan- at $12,000. Thomas Gemmell was Informed of 'his brother's death through an ad- vertisement inserted in a Pittsburgh paper. The brothers had not met for sixty years. : . The London Dally Herald is call- ing on the British directors of the British Empire Steel Corporation to explain their action with regard to the Newfoundland bribery scandal. President Cosgrave told Dail that the military siaution is normal. TWO ARE KILLED IN RAILWAY ACCIDENTS Near Niagara 1 Falls--Horse and Buggy Struck by a Locomotive. Niagara Falls, March 27.--Samu- el Sirianni of La Salle, was struck and killed last night by an Interna- tional Railway Company troiley train. 'He was believed to have been walking along the tracks. Tony Sieski, Stamford township, was killed when he was struck by a Grand Trunk passenger train at Winery crossing in Stamford. He was driving over the crossing with horse and buggy and failed to notice the approach of the traim. Leprosy Scare Stirs Capital of France Paris, March 27.--Paris has a leprosy scare. In the Faubourg poissoiniere, in an old barfack used by all sorts of troops during the war, women who are now working there on the pen- sion lists have been attacked by an affection which resembles the early stages of leprosy. ,Sixty-three of the 1,000 employees have suffered from it. It manifests itself by a rash on the hands, have and knees. In the St. Louis hospital, Yehere the cases are being treated, the doc- tdrs insist it is not grave and that all signs of the malady disappear after ten days of treatment. FERGUSON IS SILENT ON REGULATION 17 Ontario Premier Falls in Ex- pected Announcement on Bilingualism at Montreal. Toronto Globe Special. Ottawa, March 27.--A bomb was thrown into the Meighen-Lavergn camp yesterday by Henri Bourassa, when in an editorial in Le Devoir, published in Montreal, the National. ist Leader of Drummond-Artha- baska days, completely repudiated not only Armand Lavergne, but also Right Hon. Arthur Meighen, leade: of the Opposition in the House . of Commons. This has come as a blow to those who have been busy in: the past three or feur months trylng to patch up some sort of alliance be tween the Quebec Conservatives ahd the English-speaking following ot Mr. Meighen, for the latter had been harboring the hope that Mr. Laver- gne would be able to swing some old- time Nationalist support behind the Federal Conservatives. Before the now famous Meighen- Lavergne meeting in Montreal, La Patrie, a Conservative evening pap- er in that city, carried in {ts large advertisement of the meeting to be held an announcement that Premier G. Howard Ferguson of Ontario, who would attend the banquet, would probably make some impont- ant announcement in regard to Reg- ulation 17 and the administration of the bilingual schools. That an- nouncement was not, however, forth- coming at the banquet, Premier Ferguson confining himself to some innocuous declarations of cordial feeling between the two provinces. Meighen's Divided Household. This flat repudiation by Mr. Bour- assa of the Montreal meeting ana of the idea it expressed has aroused considerable comment in political circles here, especially among the Liberal members from Quebec and among some English-speaking mem bers from Ontario and the Westerr Provinces. How does Mr. Meigheu hope to make any headway in Que- bec when his own supporters in On- tario, such as Dr. Edwards and H. C. Hocken, are undoing by spoken and written word all that he says in Quebec? is one of the questions ask- ed by members here. Another ques- tion asked is, How can Mr. Meighen 'hope to gain any strength from Mr. Lavergne, whose influence in his Province is now at a low ebb, wity ittle hope of overflowing ed GETS ORDER FROM CPR Locomotive Works to Build Ten Teaders For Company. A FULL MONTES WORK Is Assured By This Contract--- Works Will Soon Have 500 Men Employed. On Thursday morning the man- agement of the Canadian Locomotive Company announced that a contract had been received from the Cana- dian Pacific Railway Company to build ten tenders or tanks. The | tenders will be similar to the Mikado |tanks which were constructed by {the Canadian Locomotive Works for Ithe Canadian National Railway last summer. This will certainly be good news to Kingston, as it will means at least one month's work for the large number of emloyees at the works. At the present time the company ls working on the Canadian National ilway contract for twenty heavy type locomotives. The employees, who were reduced to less than two hundred men, are gradually increasing, and it will only be a short time until' there will be at least five hundred men on the pay roll of the company. As the work on the new engines advancese to a certain stage, the mechanics who have been out of work for a brief period are being taken om. TO ACT UPON BOND DEAL DISCLOSURES Attorney-General to Decide Next move After Persuing the Evidence. ---- Toronto, March 7 .--Governmental action concerning the disciosures = volving Charlies A. Mathews, pended Deputy Provincial Treasur- er, is contemplated by the attorney- general. Mr. Mathews, According wo a witness before the pubile dccounts committee, shared in the profit from a transaction in province of Ontario bonds Although Provincial Treasurer Price had not formally brought the matter to the attention of Attorney- General Nickle, as he intimated he would do at the committee meeting, that will be done to-day. Mr. Nickle will receive a copy of the evidence of G. M. Hart and Alexander Roes, the two former bank clerks who im- plicated Mathews before the commit tee. The attorney-general will them decide what action will be taken. Premier Ferguson declined yes- terday to comment upon the situa- tion as the head of the Govern- ment stating that he knew nothing whatever of it except what he had gathered from the newspapers. It was hoped, he said, that the legis- lature would get through its ses- sional business by the end of next week, 'when it is customary for the public accounts committee of the legislature to conclude its work, Subsequent developments, he said, would determine whether there would be any extension of the pow- ers of the committee to sit during the recess. The public accounts committee will probably not sit again this week, owing to the pressure upon Provincial Treasurer Price of his departmental duties, together with estimates in the legislature and the work of preparing his cases before the committee. At Athens, amnesty has been ex- tended by the Republican govern- ment to General Metaxas, leader of the unsuccessful revolt last fall. Montreal spent $1,000,000 on snow removal during the past winter. wend [ "You If a MAN is capable of GIVING one hundrec per cent Ot AFFECTION-- HOW MUCH of that SHOULD his WIFE GET? Well--I should say: ALL she can. How much DOES she get? Well, again--1I imagine, ALL.SHE CAN-- 1 For NO WIFE is SATISFIED With anything LESS Than ALL her husband's Affection; . And when she GETS IT all, Said It, Marcelinel" | A WOMAN that does not , Have to exert herself LOSES her YOUTH, And a woman who NO LONGER Exerts herself to PLEASE Has ALREADY LOST it. The reason why MEN keep YOUNGER than WOMEN is Because when a MAN sees A pretty face, he is WILLING To EXERT himself, And when a PRETTY WOMAN CAPTIVATES HIM Is a wife satisfied THEN? He DOES! Quite naturally. Dmgoright. MM. Premier Godimia ba LL mwa hi br cv el sus |