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- CAPITOL NOW SHOWING y British Whig AINSI CAPITOL MON., TUES., WED. CORINNE GRIFFITH CONWAY TEARLE "LILLIES OF THE. { FIELD" YEAR 92; No. 95. Aemilius Jarvis Has Paid The Dail KINGSTON, Conspiracy Fine of Sixty Thousand Dollars ONTARIO, THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1925. -- LAST EDITION. PROVINCE WILL FIGHT TORONTO OVER THE FINE mm-- Attorney-General Will Not Let the $60,000 Slip Away. RELEASE OF JARVIS Follows Payment of Fine---He Has Served Six Months At Jail Farm. Toronto, April 33.-~The fine of $60,000 imposed on Aemilius Jarvis, 8r., convicted of comspiracy to de- fraud the province, was paid into court yesterday afternoon at Osgoode Hall. The amount was in the form of a cheque, payable to Edmund Har- ley, registrar of the Supreme Court, and was paid over by counsel repre- senting Mr. Jarvis. The disposition of the fine---whether it goes to the pro- vince or the city of Toronto --is a matter for decision. The payment of the fine releases Mr. Jarvis from the Jail farm, where he has been a pris- oner since his conviction last fall in the Assize Court, Mr. Jarvis has paid the province $140,000, but this was restitution, and is not in any way associated with the fine, which the Supreme Court, in an appeal from the Assize Court sentence, fixed at $60,000. With the payment of the $60,000 the case of Jarvis is now closed, although there has been rumor that he will attempt to regain the amount paid to the province as restitution. Jarvis, senior, and Peter Smith, former pro- -vinetal' » Were convicted on the same day on a charge of con- spiracy to defraud the province of certain monies in the buying in of provincial bonds in Great Britain. Smith is now in Portsmouth peni- tentiary doing « three-year sentence. He was also fined, but none of the amount has yet been paid. The city of Toronto yesterday af- ternoon served notice on B. C. Har. ley, registrar of the Supreme Court, and Superintendent Morrison at the jail farm, that it lays formal claim , to the $60,000 fine paid by Aemi- ius Jarvis. ' "The city is within its rights in taking Such action," said Attorney- General Nickle. "What will the pro- vince do about it?" Mr. Nickle was asked. "Well, we'll have to make a fight for it," he replied without any hesitgtion. "We can't let $60,000 slip away from us without a strug- gle." ' ! Mr. 'Jarvis was released from the Jail farm this morning. ' Remission of Taxes. Ottawa, April 23.--In the last fis- cal year remissions or reduction in income or business profits tax in Canada consisted ot $8,523, covering four small 'remissions plus a remis- sion of £36,312 on account of the William Davies Company, Limited, which was paid to the British Gov- ernment under section $ of the Tax- ation Act, This was stated in the House of Commons to-day in answer to a question. i -------- Harry D. Williams was hanged early Thursday morning at Frederic- to, NB, for the murder of his two ' Hundreds were killed without trial by the authorities following the Sofia bomb outrage, say British M, P.s who 'were there. The report on the Mosul dispute is not entirely favorable to Great Britain, says a press forecast. The British ment decides to probe the acti agents throughout Europe. I Nn e-- 000000000000 seo of the Soviet |; |rEV. WILLIAM RALPH INGE Known as the gloomy dean of St. Paul's cathedral, London, Eng. now in United States, but who is the most brilllang and liberal mind in the Church of England. Woman Arrested On Fraud Charge In Connection With the Petrie Cream Separator Conspiracy at Deseronto. Toronto, April 23.--With her hus- band having already fled the coun- try while on bail because of the op- erations of the company, and with one Johnston having already been sentenced, and still facing criminal charges on the same account, Mrs. Agnes Petrie was arrested last even- ing by the provincial police and so lent a somewhat dramatic turn to the affairs of the Petrie Cream Sep- arator company. The charge facing her is conspiracy to defraud and she is held without bail. She is alleged to have been one of the principals in the scheme by which stock to" the value of $150,000 in the Petrie Cream Separator company was sold to the Ontario public. The company was to have erected a factory "in Deseronto. According to the pro- vincial authorities, no such step was taken but the proceeds of the sale of the company's stock were diverted for the promoters' needs. Mrs. Pétrie was remanded for one week. Bail was fixed at $6,000, but she has not produced it yet. She has four children. Woman's Refusal to Mead Her Hubby's Socks Secures Divorce Chicago, April 28.--A dutiful wife is supposed to darn her husband's socks. Failing in this and other chores, she may be di- vorced. This rule was estab- lished by Judge Sabath, when he indicated he would grant Henry Dannenberg, of Washing- ton Heights, aged 73, a divorce from his wife, who is the same age, but his second wife. Incidentally, there was t mony that Mrs. Dannenberg used a poker, a pair of shears and other weapons upon her husband, but the determining the factor was her refusal to mend his socks and other cloth- ing. CANADA AND THE U.S. t- | MARLER CLAIMS ROBB'S BUDGET IS QUITE CLEAR The Statement Is Simple And Very Easy to Analyze. PUBLIC IS CONFUSED By Criticism That Is Given With- out a Correct Knowledge of the Facts. Ottawa, April 23.--Herbert Mar- ler, M.P., St. Lawrence-St. George, gave Parliament yesterday an ex- baustive review of Canada's finan- cial situation. He endorsed the fin- ancial statement as presented by the Hon. James A. Robb, stating "it is a simple statement, easy to analyze and clear in its effect." Mr. Marler read the Conservative critics a severe lecture for their criticism of the financial statement presented by the Finance Minister. He sald: "Criticism without a cor- rect knowledge of the facts or of a nature to comfuse the public mind serves no good purpose but casts suspicion on the good faith of those cfficers of the Crown who are re- sponsible for the preparation and presentation of the statement in question. Suspicion of that descrip- tion cannot be in the interest of the people of tiis Dominion. In the course of this debate certain expres- sions have been unfortunate in their inaccuracies. In other cases the facts, clearly for partisan purposes, have been distorted. As a result the public mind is cohfused as to the nature and effect of the financial state- ment now submitted." He found that Mr. Robb in claim- inga surplus of $1,823,000 had pre- sented an accurate statement of the year's financial operation. This statement had been presented in the same manner and same detail as that used in the last seven distinct budget speeches and it therefore could not be stated that the present | form of financial statement differ- ed from those previously given. Mr. Marler reviewed the railway advances and bond issues and found that the criticism of the budget speech did not make a full disclosure of these various financial transac- tions and was not well-founded. | He claimed it gave more information on this subject than did the budget speech of Sir Thomas White in 1919 or thet of Bir Henry Drayton in 1921. BRITISH SQUADRON'S TOUR. Three Cruisers To Visit Montreal This Summer. London, April 23.--The eighth cruiser squadroy, under Vice-Ad- miral Sir James Fergusson, com- mander-in-chief of the North Am- erica and West Indies station, i§ or- dered to leave its base at Bermuda on June 6 for a visit to Canada. It will be composed of H.M.8. Calcutta flagship (Captain the Hon. Alexan- der Ramsay, D#.0.) H.M.S. Con- stance (Captain C. V. Robinson) and H.M.8. Curlew (Captain H. D. Bridges, D.S.0.). From about June 9 to June 23 the squadron will be off Halifax. Later the flagship and possibly another cruiser will visit Hawke Bay, St. fours, Nfid., Sydney, Quebec and LOOKING AROUND Yesterday Kingston showed the new owners of the Grand Opera House that it can uphold its reputa- tion of giving the stromgest support to a real good drama. It certainly is strange that Queen's university, founded by Scotch Pres- byterians, has not a golf club. One can understand why the athletic board of control does not wish to burden itself with looking after such an organization, for golf is a non- producer insofar as revenue is con- cefned and about as popular to Cana- dian spectators as cricket. But not- withstanding, Queen's should have a representative golf team. --- A banana eater explains that it is cheaper to buy bananas by the dozen than by the pound. He has proven this, for on one occasion he received five to the pound and paid as much as he would have done for six by the dozen. Still, selling by weight is the fairer all round. Now, people get fifteen pounds of potatoes to the peck, while before they got all the way from twelve to fourteen pounds by the peck measure, ™ All the law violators are not sum- moned to the police court by long odds. Many of the O.T.A. violators are, but there are other people who observe the O.T.A. because they do not like liquor, but who violate other laws. The city engineer is reported to have caught a few during the past week because the city council pro- vided him with an antomobile. The city ordinances should be observed just as well as those of the govern- ments and the Ten Commandments. A late chief of police used to say that it he was to enforce all the by- laws there would bea strange mess, for _he figured that he would have probably one-quarter of the people before the police magistrate and per- haps have to hold court might and day. He figured, too, that if he at- tempted to enforce evem half the by-laws he would have appeals from all quarters to desist. So there you are. A Princess street merchant re- marked that he would lose one hun- dred dollars of his profits this week because of the snowstorm last Sun- day, but he figured he would get this back probably two fold later in the year. The reason for this is that the heavy snowfall, about a foot around Kingston district, wi]l fertilize the ground and cause it to yield more abundantly, . The farmers will get more money from their crops and will have more to spend in the stores during the summer and fall. For a long time there was little recognition of St. George's Day in Kingston as the old St. George's So- ciety had gone out of existence. The flags on the city buildings marked the day, when those in ~athority did not forget the 23rd. Now, however, since the city elected a red-blooded Englishman as mayor &nd has re- tained Tom in the job for three years St. George's Day is getting more show, and the old St. George's So- ciety has been revived. Years ago this society was very active, and at Christmas time it used to give roast beef to poor families who applied. Those were the days when the late Dr. BE. H. Smythe and B. J. B. Pense were at head of the organization. While there has been some emi- gration from Canada to the United States during the past few years; it must not be overlooked that there is a good deal of United EYE WITNESSES DO NOT AGREE IN THEIR VIEWS ------ As to Possibilities of Saving Crew of Japanese Freighter. SUICIDE TO LAUNCH Homeric's Lifeboats, According to Some---Captain' Never Saw More Terrible Marine Disaster. New York, April 23.--Passengers who arrived on the liner Homeric, after seeing the Japanese freighter Raifuku Maru sink with its thirty- eight officers and men, -expressed widely divergent views as to whether every possible effort had been made by the Homeric's officers to save the Japanese seamen. The Homeric docked last night after its race with death failed on Tuesday. Division among passengers was about equal, some saying that every- thing humanely possible had been done and that it would have been suicide to launch the Homeric's life boats; others stating that they be- lieved some lives might have been saved had the boats been launched or rafts set adrift toward the sink- ing vessel. Captain John Roberts was given a testimonial signed by 123 of the 238 first class cabin passengers. All persons interviewed spoke of the tragedy of the spectacle, over which men as well as women wept unshamedely. Capt. Roberts said that in his forty years at sea he had never seen as terrible a marine dis« aster except during the world war. Province Might Be Satisfied a Split of the Fine Toronto, April. 23.--Attor- ney-General Nickle intimated to-day that the province might test the constitutionality of the dominion legislation under which the city of Toronto is claiming a sixty thousand dol- lar fine, paid yesterday by Aemilius Jarvis, Sr. "It has been contended that the dominion law is ultra- vires," was Mr. Nickles brief statement. He suggested that the province might be satisfied with a "split" of the fine. FATHER AND TWO SONS SENTENCED TO PRISON For Conspiracy to Defraud-- The Father Oomes to the Penitentiary. Toronto, April 23.---Three years in Portsmouth penitentiary was the sentence of Judge Coatsworth upon I. B. Flater; his son, C. P. Flater, serves six months to two years less one day in the Ontario Reformatory; while the other son, F. Flater, is to serve three months to two years, less one day in the Ontario Reformatory. The three sentences all to be ser- ved on each of the three counts of conspiracy to defraud, theft and re- ceiving, but the sentences are to run concurrently. The, three Flaters were found guilty on the three charges which arose in connection with the opera- tions of the Flater gold syndicate when they received $11,000 from thy public which they used for private HAD DONE HIS DUTY AS BANK DIRECTOR But Had Been Kept In Ignor- ance of the Bank's True Condition. Toronto, April 23.--A. G. Mec- Master, K.C., counsel for Col. Clar- ence Smith of Montreal, director ot the Home Bank of Canada, appeal- ing his conviction and sentence by County Judge Emerson Coats- worth, argued this morning before the first divisional appellate court that his client had done his duty as director and had been kept In ignor- ance of the bank's true condition, ------------ No Decision Yet. Ottawa, April 23.--The proposed removal of the Royal Canadian Air Force Station from Camp Borden to Camp Mohawk is being considered by the Department of National De- fense, but no decision has been reached, said Hon. E. M. Macdonald, Minister of National Defense, in the House of Commons yesterday after- noon, in answer to a question by W. A. Boys. -------- Gen. Macdonell Was at Boston As Representative of the Cana- dian Government For 150th Anniversary of Lexington. Major General Sir A. C. Mac- donell has returned from Boston where he was the representative of the Canadian Government at the celebration on April 20th of the 150th anniversary of the battle of Lexington, The ceremonies included a re- enacting of the battle on the Lexing- ton Bridge with every detail cor- responding as exactly as possible with those of the actual battle, and the. spectators standing where the spectators from Concord had stood. The other main event was the great procession which lasted for over two hours and included thousands of varied uniforms, most of them his- toric, .and the greatest display of flags which General Macdonell has ever seen. Everything was done on a lavish scale and with an amazing thoroughness. The proverbial Amer- ican hospitality was, if possible, ex- ceeded on this occasion. The weath- er, however, was most disagreeable with a heavy fall of snow on Sunday | and a chilling wind on Monday. But except that the proceedings were somewhat delayed by this misfor- tune, everything was carried out ac- cording to plan. During his stay General Maec- donell was the guest of Mr. Gay, the British consul-general at Boston. Major Hadden was appointed his A. D.C., and the American General Brewster was his guide and council- lor. Many other famous persons were in attendance, including General Pershing and Vice-President Dawes, whose great grandfather was the Dawes who rode with Paul Revere tof rouse the countrydide against tha British. The British veterans of the Great War were permitted to join in the parade, much to the surprise of some. The reason for allowing this one foreign body in a purely Ameri- can celebration was that these vet- erans are in the habit of decorating the graves of the British soldiers who fell at Concord and Lexington, and it was felt that this interest en- titled them to a place in the parade, By special Act of Congress, a sil- ver half-dollar was struck for the occasion and sold at one or two places for the sum of a dollar to cov- er the expenses of the anniversary, There was also a large medal, show- ing on one side a minute man and on the other a scene from the battle of Lexington. This is about four inches in diameter. There are also two small medals attached to rib- bons of buff and blue each showing a minute man and ome bearing the inscription "What a glorious morn- ing for America." Copies of all of these are in the possession of Gen- eral Macdonell, together with some other interesting souvenirs of an im- Crew of ---------------------- Hy Hie Li Te Lis CNR HOTELS GIVE NO PROFIT Its Dining Car System Is Also "ri is BOTH ARE NECESSARY Tothe Railway Business, How: ever---Claim Made That Ocean Conference Not Combine. Ottawa, April 23.--In giving evi« dence to-day before the house come mittee on railways and shipping, Sir Henry Thornton, 'president of the Canadian National railways, told of the loss sustained through the op- eration of its string of hotels. Last year the company's ten hotels had a revenue of $1,795,279 and ex- pendifures '$2,032,939, to which must be added taxes totalling $60, 278. The hotels, however, sald Sif Henry, were a necessary adjunct te the railway tratfic. The president also declared there was no profit in . the dining car system but this alse was a necessary adjunct to the rails way business. Not A Combine. "The conference is in uo way & combine as generally understood by the word," asserted Colonel William I. Gear, vice-president of the Ro- bért Reford Company, before the spécial committee on Ocean Rates, yesterday afternoon. To strangle trade by going to extremes in ocean rates was no object ofthe North Ate lantic Conference, he declared. Not only did the conference mot extort excessive rates, but it conferred numerous benefits on the shipper in the line of regularity of service, res duction in insurance premiums, ime proved accommodation, ete. : "The opinion has been expressed that New York governs the confer= ence. We deny this absolutely," Col. Gear continued. "There is no discrimination fn tariffs as between United States and Canadian ports. We quote the some rates to London, Liverpool and Glas« gow as are quoted by any other Un ited States port." 7 ---------------- GEN. ROSS WILL NoT BELIEVE STATEMENT That There Will Be No Tory Party in Canada in 25 Years. Ottawa, April 23--Brig.-Gen. A. Ross, M.P. for Kingston, followed Mr. Marler in the budget debate the Commons last night. "The remarks made in the house a few nights ago by a Progressive predicting that the Conservatives twenty-five years would be dinsotveds were," stated General Ross, "like whistling of a boy going through the woods, trying to keep up his age." He preferred the result in last Ontario election by which Ontario Conservatives were ret to power, after predictions by Om tarlo Progressives, similar to tha voiced a few nights ago in p : here. Mr. Forke had on many Bions condemned the 0 but when it came to a crisis, ways voted for them. the mast, and the Conservatives, 8 General Ross, were waiting to how soon the colors were com down. General Ross moved the journment of the debate, which wi be resumed to-day, i : 3 SAYS THORNTON. <