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CAPITOL NOW SHOWING "WINE OF YOUTH" With an All Star Cast [i 3 - CAPITOL THURS, FRI, SAT. James JRO "G CRAN« STON'S LADY" CTT TTT TTT EY TEES. -- YEAR 91; No. 300, -------- KINGSTON, ONTARIO. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1024 The Baily - LAST EDITION The Whig Wishes Its Readers A Ha -- ppy Christmas WAS FORCED "INTO SHELTER Owing to Heavy Sea on Sunday, Gat Pes THE FIRST MESSAGE ® Of the Safety of the Salvage Prince Was Received By the Whig. 'What might have been a very sad Christmas season was turned into one of great rejoicing on Tuesday after- moon, when a representative ot the Whig telephoned to the Pyke home on Princess street and {nformed the family that the tug Salvage Prince, in. command of Capt. Grant Pyke, which had not been heard of since Sunday last, was safe at Fairhaven, N.Y. The first message of the tug's safety came to ¢the Whig at four o'clock. Shortly afterwards Mrs. Pyke was infofmed that the boat was safe. Her husband called her on long-distance telephone from Fairhaven and stated that his tug and the members of the crew were all safe. He sald that after leaving Sackets Harbor on Sunday afternoon he encounred @& heavy soa and he was forced to take shel- ter in the bay at Stoney Island light- house, where he remained until Tues- ddy noon, when he proceeded in the direction of Fairhaven. Capt. Charles Willard, of the fug Russell, now lying at Oswego, stated over long-distance telephone, when ptalking to Mrs. Willard Wednesday night, that he must now wait at Os- wego until the Salvage Prince arrives there to coal up. The two tugs will then proceed to Sodus and break out the two barges laden with coal and will proceed with them 'to Toronto. Capt. Willard will lay up the tug there and' comre"to his home "Hn .. The weather will decide the Salvage Prince will do after getting to TorontS, but the aim tad been to return to Kingston to go into quarters, Under the condi- tions existing, with the harbor al- ready frozen over and adding thick- ness each day, Capt. Pyke's boat will likely have to'stay at Toronto or at some open port on the lake. COLOGNE EVACUATION DEEMED IMPOSSIBLE : Ei On January 10th, as Condition= ally Set by the Versailles Treaty. Paris, Dec. 24.--The meeting of the allied council/of ambassadors has been put off until Saturday, chiefly to give time for the experts to com- plete a draft of the note relative to the svacustion of Cologne, which will Se submitted to the council and, after petification, delivered to the German government. Thee vacuation of the Cologne area of the German occupied region on January 10th as conditionally set ®y the Versailles treaty, is deemed tmpossible by the French cabinet which met this morning. v. " H. Anderson, former state superintendent of the New York State Anti-Saloon League was -Arre as he leit Sing Sing Prison on Wednesday on parole af- ter serving a year's sentence on 8 conviction of forgery, | ® prisonment, while Mrs. Sweetin # was given thirty-five years in PEEPS PPEEPIEOS ® + OLERGYMAN AND WOMAN + GUILTY OF MURDER + + * # Mount Vernon, Iii, Dec. 24.-- # # The jury trying Rev. Lawrence # Hight and Mrs. Elsie Sweetin # for the poison murder of her # husband, Wilford Sweetin, to- # day returned a verdict of "gull- 4 ty." Hight was given life im- + 4 penitentiary. + * + + + + + * + + * PEPPPFIIPPIOPISSIRS -------------- AT MOWAT HOSPITAL. A Christmas Tree Enjcyed There on Tuesday Evening. The annual Christmas tree event | at the Mowat hospitat was held on Tuesday evening 4% the hospital re- | creation room, the presence of a large crowd of patients and friends. After some. excellent vocal numbers by Miss Chown, it was proposed by Mascot "'Doe" Evans that Dr. Bruce Hopkins should sing for the" boys. the proposer would d¢ likewise. The challenge was accepted and the two gentlemen sang that touching Bcot- tish ballad, "A Wee Doch an Roris," which was greeted with hearty ap- plause. Dr. Hopkins then addressed the gathering on the progress of the hospital during the past year, and ia closing wished all present the sea- son's greetings. A number of ladies then stripped the tree of its many gifts which came from the 1.0.D.E., the Red Cross So- clety andt he Mowat canteen. Wednesday there was a general de- parture of those who were able to spend the holidays at home or with friends. ---------------- The doctor kindly agreed, providing EIGHT KILLED IN AIRPLANE Express From London to Paris Crashes At Croydon, Eng. ALL BURNED. TO DEATH The Machine Suddenly Went fn- to a Nose Dive And Burst Into Flames. Croydon, Eng., Dec. 24.-- Eight persons were killed when an airplane crashed at the airdrome here this morn- ing. The plane was a big air ex- press from London to Paris. The passengers were on their way to Paris for Christmas. Soon after rising the machine suddenly banked over Purly Downs in a gust of wind, went into a nose dive and burst into flames through the explosion of the gasoline tank. All eight in the machine were burned to death and the machine was completely destroyed. Among the passengers were Dr. Borbois lima, Brazilian, and Cedric Trudget, repre- sentative of the Chilean Re- view. The passengers included two women. TRAIN IS DERAILED; NO PASSENGERS HURT Engineer and Fireman Slightly injured--Woas Enroute From Toronto, Dec. 24.-- When the Canadian National Rallway train Neo. 1, bound from Mont- real to Vancouver was derailed at Woodlawn, twenty-eight miles west of Ottawa, at 2.58 o'clock this morning, Engineer Gauvreau and Fireman Deevy of Ottawa were slightly hurt but no passengers were injured. The engine and tender and seven cars left the rails, all remaining upright with the exception of the éngine and ex- press car. The sleeping, dining and observation cars were tak- en back to Ottawa terminal where the train was detoured via Renfrew subdivision, and North Bay for the west, Wheat Steam-hip Ashore. Panema, Dec. 24.--The steamship Anglo-Egyptian, from Vancouver for Gibraltar with wheat, struck the east bank of the Panama canal at Lapita Point yesterday,and is now beached. She will be taken to Balboa for re- pairs. Part of the cargo is ruined by water, Gerdon Alexander Scott, Perth, {s announced as successful for the post of assistant plant pathologist at Charlottetown, P.E.I., under the Experimental Farms branch, De- partment of Agriculture. The provincial secretary denies the story that Peter Smith, now in Portsmouth penitentiary, got the "gcables" in Toromto jail. Six children escaped but their mo- ther perished in the burning of their home near Drumheller, Alta. early Tuesday morning. News of f the Wires In Condensed Form World's sugar beet crop is above average. Genera] elections are called Egypt for next month. well in are murdering communist agitators. Mr. and Mrs. John Staples, Pe- trolet, were asphyxiated in their home. Chief Justice Anglin, of Canada, 1s admitted to the imperial privy coungil. Four men were killed when a naval seaplane was swamped at Norfolk, Va. Imperial preference proposals promise but slight immediate bene- fit to Canada. Mayor W. J. Christie was re-elect- ed chief magistrate of Owen Sound by acclamation. Germany will not be admitted to the League of Naitons under any special conditions. Baldwin cabinet considering scheme to give Dominions advant- age in British meat market. R. P. Gough, Home Bank direc- tor, suggests 'that M. J. Haney tried to re-establish the bank by speculating. President Herriot appeals to for- eign press representatives to pre going abroad. At Belleville, for falling to affix a revenue stamp to a receipt for $10 or over, a local merchant was fined $10 and costs, or $33 In all. Murray Fox Gibbon, son of J. Murray Gibbon, Ste. Anne de Belle- vue has been awarded the Rhodes Scholarship for the province of Quebec. Two more deaths in Bellevue hos- pital, New York, on Tuesday brought the number of alcoholic fatalities here since December 1st to thirty-six. Rev. A. Mclvor, pastor of Barvas Presbyterian church, twenty-seven miles from Yorkton, Sask., reports that his congregation on Sunday vot. | ica has unlimited fu Reports from Russia say peasants vent false reports of "Red" peril' PPFPFEITEIPIBPPOIOICTOIRPS + 4 WILL PLAY SANTA * FROM THE CLOUDS # New York, Dec. 24.--The Los Angeles, the United States navy's newest dirigible, has been ordered into the service of Santa Claus, and on Christ- mas Eve will fly over New York city after dark, strung with lights like an aerial Christmas tree, while from her radio sta- tion will be broadcast messages trom the good saint, and "Hark, .the Herald Angels Sing," played by the band of the naval station here. PIPPI PPSIIR Oe * * * * PEP LFHISSNOPOIOOOSDS DR. OSCAR HARTMANN Prominent German banker, now in United States, colleagues freque come to the ed States with mistaken notions. says most of them seem to think Amer- 8. es his J A BRIDES USE POWDER | PUFF-IN"DHE VESTRY An English Vicar Comes Out Against Women Painting Their Faces. Kingston, England, Dec. 24. --Rev. A. Wellesly Orr, vicar 'of St. Paunl's church, Kingston Hill, has come out against the use of paint and powder by women. Writing to his parishioners, the vicar says: "Bven while we are signing the marriage registers in the church vestry the bride may get in a few moments' work before a mirror with powder puff, scis- sors and bottle, The man who came into the church in love with a blushing blonde takes out on his arm a blooming bobbed brunette. Some wives are s0 constantly changing their ap- pearance that their husbands live iii perpetual dread of arrest for bigamy." Aged Ottawa Druggist Dead. Ottawa, Dec, 24.--Joseph Alfred Murgrove, one of the city's most pro- minent business men, dled yesterday, aged séventy-nine years. He was a druggist. Birthdays of Two. Aged Men L fit Rev. Dr. G. D. Ferguson ety-Two And' 1{ dertake a full and : EIGHT LINERS AT NEW YORK All Were Delayed By Fog And Gales on Atlantic. HAD 3,000 PASSENGERS The Otympie Is Due on Wednes- day With Ma 0ld Country New York, Dec. 24. --Wave-scarred wanderers of the Atlantic--eight in pumber--wormed into port yester- day, the biggest unit of the Christmas fleet to get to New York. Two ves- sels which had been scheduled to arrive before noon Were expected later in the aay. The {incoming ships brought almost 3,000 passen- gers. A jam threatened quarantine when the liners, icy riggings tracing sugary ines against a distant shore, edged through from the open sea, All were late, the delays from fog and De- cember gales being from twenty-four to seventy-two hours. The White Star liner Cedric headed the fleet with 601 passengers from Liverpool and Queenstown. Nine children, two travelling alone and the others under the care of 1 their sixteen-year-old sister, were on board. The Cedric was thirty-six hours late. Other arrivals were the Uni- ted States liner Republic, which had been delayed seventy-two hours; the Anchor liner Cameronia, the Hol- land-America liner Volendam, from Roterdam and Havana; the Nor- weglan American liner Bergensford, from Christiania; the Royal Mail Mner Ohio, and the United States Hner America. The Essequibo, of the South Ameri- can line, twenty-four hours late, drought y-one shiveripg passen- gerd southern climes. All"of the ships brought Christ- mas mail, the bulk coming from Cen- tral and Northern Europe. The Atlantic Transport liner Min- netonka, from London, and the ward liner Siboney, from Havana, arrived late last night. To-day the White Star liner Olympic is scheduled to arrive with much mall. A CONFERENCE FOR MARCH IS PROPOSED Dominions Asked to Agree to Special Meeting on Dis- armament Protocol. London, Dec. 24.--The British government yesterday asked the Dominions to agree to a special meeting of the Imperial Conference fn March to consider the League of Nations' profocol for disarmament. The Colonial Office: sent. a series of cablegrams to the Dominions and India asking them to send repre- sentatives to London in March, if agreeable, to discuss the Imperial stand on the protocol which the British Government some time ago made clear it would not sign until its dependencies had expressed their views. Today's messaged, while they avoid definitely issuing the call for a conference, Aare understood to contain requests that the Dominiofis reply immediately suggesting a sult- abd date for the meeting and nam- ing the respective delegates. The proposed conference<will un- trank discussion of the disarmament convention and PPE PCPPIEIRPOCRPICOIOSS * ° $e + OTTAWA DOES NOT +» * LICK ITS STAMPS ¢ ® -- * & Ottawa, Dec. 24.--The Ot- # # tawa Post Office has taken > & over the licking of Christmas * # stamps. Under a scheme in ¢ & force to-day, you hand the & & parcels to a clerk, who weighs + & them, calls out the amount of * + postage for each package to a ¥ & second clerk, | who skilfully @ & manipulates a cash register. @ A slip bearing the amount of % 4 postage is given you. You pay ® # the postage in cash and go your # ¢ way. Inside, a staff of em- ® # ployees + stamps. * *PPPPEIIFIOIPIRIONESY THE POPE PROCLAIMS 1925 AS HOLY YEAR Magnificent Ceremony at the Vatican in Rome--Holy Door Is Opened. Rome, Dec. 24.--Pope Pius XI, surrounded by the splendor of medie- val pageantry customary for such oc- casions, to-day proclaimed from the Vatican the twenty-third Holy Year in the history of the Papacy and per- formed the picturesque ceremony of knocking down the Holy Door of the basilica of St. Peter's with the sym- bolic solid gold hammer. The Pontiff thus initiated a series of cererflonies which are expected to attract to Rome during the ensuing year millions of pilgrims from all over the world. The regal magnificence of to-day's ceremony, the richness of the ponti- fical robes, the multicolored uniforms of the various branches of the Vati- can forces, and the draperies and canopies that lent gorgeous color to the general background left'a pano- rama of solemn grandeur imprinted on the minds of the favored hun- dreds who saw the ceremony at close range and the thousands of others who flied the spacious basilic# and overflowed Into the expansive square in fromt. By far the most impressive part of this age-old yet ever mew ceremony was that which the pope, holding in his right hand the little gold ham- mer which somewhat resembles in shape an ordinary chairman's avel, struck thrice the massive Holy 'Door, which, in accordance with plans pre- viously worked out by the "sample- manently employed to keep the great edifice in repair--yiejded to these blows, gradually falling open. It will remain open during Holy Year, after which the door will be replac- ed and will remain closed another 25 years until open again by the same ceremony. Immediately after the Holy Door had fallen open and was rolled away on casters that previously had been attached, the news was proclaimed by the peali.g of the bells' of the great mother church, in which the bells of all the other 400 churches of the Eternal City joined. Hen's Peck Led to Death. Moose Jaw, Sask., Dec. 24.--Rich- ard Bogue, ploneer resident and the first merchant to establish in the city, a veteran of the Northwest Re- bellion} and several times mayor of Moose Jaw, died last night. His death was a tragic one. On December 17th, one of the hens in a flock which he kept at his home, picked him on the thumb of the right hand. Blood poisoning get in. Though an operation was per- formed at the hospital, he failed to rally. Killed In The Woods. Cobourg, Dec. 24.--Word has been received here that Whaley, Murray township, = man past the meridian of life, was accl- affixes the proper & * trini'--the corps of workmen per- ARRESTED FOR : BANK ROBBERY | Two of the Six Former Members of Seattle Police. PROFANITY GAVE CLUE Some of the Accused Were Prin: cipals in Various Other Crimes of Violence. Seattle, Wash., Dec. 24.-- with a single cast of the net over west ern Washington last night, Cana- dian and American officials and de tectives trapped eix of the eight men accused of the spectacular hold« up and $40,000 robbery on Decem= ber 13th, of the Royal Bank of Canada branch at Nanaimo, B.C. The most noted of the prisoners ara Ross C. Watson, until recently & Seattle police detective, dismissed trom the department a few weeks ago and charged with complicity in the $22,000 Bon Marche robbery here on August 8th, and Clarence: H. (Dick) Shively, former Seattle Da trolman, convicted®and sentenced to two years imprisonment for dry law violation and waiting trial in coa< nection with last year's Bank of California bond robbery here. The-others are: E, William Bag« ley, said to have been the leader of the bandits in the Nanaimo robbery; T. T. Johnson, Harry Stone, alias Laden, and another suspect whose name is given as Hunter, sald to be Shively's boatman in rum-running ventures. ------ h Betrayed by Profanity. Vancouver, Dec. 24~--'An une speakable line of profanity" was one of the clues which led to the arrest of Ross C. Watson, former Seattle detective, as a suspect in the robbery of the Royal Bank gf Nanaimo? B.C., on December 13th, when $42,000 was taken: arn Members of the bank staff and citizens who were held up by the bandits, left Nanaimo yesterday morning for Seattle, where they will endeavor to identify the prisoners who were placed in custody at var« fous Washington points. : The arrests came as the result of investigations made by Inspector Cruikshanks, of the British Colum bia provincial police, working with United States officers. During the holdgp, one of the bandits marched a bank employee to a vault at the point of a gun, and, using particularly profane language, demanded that he open it. The employee told the inspector the words the bandits used and the inspector went to Seattle and re peated them to Charles Tennant; captain of detectives. Tennant ex« claimed: "I've 'heard - those = cuss words many times before. They sound like Watson." Watson is well-known in Van< couver, having competed at police sports 'here. He was dismissed trom the Seattle force some weeks ago, and 'charged with complicity in' the $22,900 robbery of the Bon Peter. Marche Department store there. He was out on bail on this charge when the Nanaimo, robbery octurred, i SOLEMN RECEPTION ~. BY THE HOLY FATHER The Pope Recelves Ohristmat Greetings From the Care dinals at the Vatican. mf ed unanimously against entering the United Church. Jacob Uhle, trafic policeman, New Orleans, wis shot and killed' Wednesday morning by a bandit who robbed the Frenchman street branch of the Marine Bank of thir- teen thousand dollars. ; Session of the Ontario legislature for 1925 will be later in starting, and shorter in duration, than the 1924 session, according to fore- casts made at the Parliament Bulld- ings. A Rev. Father Joseph McCarthy, 8.7, Roman Catholic chaplain to the} Years of Age. ' for day < Rome, Dec. 24.--The recep tion of the Cardinals yesterday by Pope Plus In order that they . might offer their usual Christs mas greeting to him was unusu- ally solemn, because it coincided with the opening to-day of the holy doors and the commence ment of jubilee years. The feature of the reception : was the address of Pope Pius. In it the pontiff emphasized the necessity for true peace, especi=' | ally at the present time when the Christmastide joined with Holy Year. a "We hope the words 'Glory. to God and on Earth, peace, good- will toward men' will , come "May dentally killed a day or so ago while working in the woods. A binding chain broke, it is stated, and a large log struck him as it rolled off the load. A Whaley, ' Salem, is a son. > the nature and extent of the res- ponsibilities tor the whole Empire {nvolved by its ratification. It is sald that the British Government will not present any policy at the March meeting, but will leave the decision to the delegates from home and abroad. em ---- EVICTIONS FOR RENT. Ninety-Five. Today Mr. MI. Hitchen of 43 George street, is 92 years of age and many congratulations are being showered on him. He still goes out every day that is fit and usually pauses at the Whig bulletin to get the latest news. When at home he reads all day and enjoys his pipe as much as any man, The Whig} -- extends Its congratulations to ODE |gcrring Scenés in Scotland When of Kingston's grand old men, Rent Not Paid. M---- London, Dec. 28.--There was stir ring scenes at Dalmuir and Dumbarton county, threatened .. 7% ON "KEEPING *SOMEBODY" HOME! SOME WIVES say THE ROOST, IT DOESN'T PAY This MAY be true, 'fo Be TOO GOOD But wives who THINK . And stay QUIETLY THAT WAY, have a | AT HOME snd Harder job than they DARN EVERYTHING . fn the bouse and 80 HANG. i § St. Paul's Presbyterian church, Moose Jaw, Sask., on Tuesday night Jyvoted 55 to 44 against entering the United Church. ¥ I YYIA XXX ES X22 8 2d (® > » > > & Paris, Dec. 24.--President & # Coolidge wilh abandon his & & post. » ® Russia will change its gov- 4 erngpent. ! > 4 Eugland will witness a tre- & &.mendous growth of socialism, & % . 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