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Mary Pickford in b "Little Annie Rooney" } 4 ¥ ish io TUES. WED. Enter COLLEEN MOORE in "IRENE YEAR 08; No. 82. : Wo MOST OF LEGISLATION SIMPL WAS 10 unded Italian Premi PASSED , LAW Y | OC. The Ontario Legisatire Formally Closed-No- Ansounceiat of General Election---Ste Taken to Increase the Resources ofthe Hydro-Electric Power Commission---132 Bills Passed. Toronto, April 8--The third ses- sion of the sixteenth legislature of 0 was formally closed 'this afférnoon by His Honor the Lieuten- anfovernor. The session lasted el weeks, : have been prophecies that 16 Will be the last session of this Legislature and that the Govern- ment will go to the electors during the year, but there has been no of- foal word of a general election. In the meantime, there are seven vac-! ant seats in the House, which willl be filled by elections if there is no | general election. In his address closing the House today, His Honor observed that most OF the legislation passed at this ses- sion Ras been to clarity and simpli- 53 ver < BIRDS OF PARADISE SHIPPED AS TALOUM £4 nis Activities of America's Biggest Pope Smuggler Revealed : at Probe. Ottawa, April 8.--Everything from birds of paradise disguised as talcum powder to opium camou- flaged as cocoa powder was discuss- ed at the Customs probe yesterday. Officers of the Customs Department and of the Royal Canadian Mounted testified to the discovery of chemicals and feather nts in boxes entered as and the artivities of "the narcotic smuggler on the American Continent" also up for review. This title was d by StaffsSergt. Salt of the d Police in Montreal upon a is and unapprehended indi- seived . shipments of] Munro, or " Were Silk. * bh from New York consign- ed to a fictitious produce firm in eal, turned out to be silk, it stated at the custom to- . ©. W. Harrison, forserly of i¢ Royal Canadian Mounted Po- related how he conducted an iavestigation for the Merchants As- 50 in in Montreal. Shipments of 2 bages" were made from time to time to the "Sun Fruit Exchange" iii Montreal. There was no organiza- ~ tion there known by that name. The: I al ved that the ship- pers name as given was equally false. are had apparently been a regular stem of getting silk in as perish- goods. fy the law. The speech mentioned cream grading, protection 'of sheep and control of the corn borer acts as being useful measures for far- mers. "Timely steps have been taken to increase the resources of the hydro- electric Power Commission," His Honor said. "The construction of a new transmission line will bring to central parts of the province power generated in the Ottawa river, Nor- thwestern Ontario will experience advantages from increased develop- ment of the Nipigon river and in the rural districts the extension of electrical services continues to make headway. During the session 132 bills were passed. > OVER-AUTHORIZATION OF SCHOOL TEXT BOOKS Teachers Discuss Question-- Books Very Reasonable' In Germany. be Toronto, April 8--That the teach- ers of Ontario were groaning under over authorization of texts was a view expressed in the modern lang- uage section of the O.E.A. in the discussion on whether a French and a German reader should be secured for the lower school. The members of the section were for the most part of the opinion that it would be bet ter for the Department of Education to authorize a number of books from which the teacher might make a choice rather than that one book only should be authorized. The ques- tion was raised as to whether, if a number of books were authorized it 'Would be possible to obtain the: secured in Canada, they conid tained in the United States at onable rates, and at still more reasonable rates in Germany. Mii EDITOR NOT GUILTY OF OORRUPTING MORALS Boston - Judge Vindicates--H, L. Mencken--Articie Not Even Attractive. Boston, April 8.--H. L. Mencken, editor of the American Mercury, was vindicated yesterday when Judge William Parmenter returned a ver- dict of not guilty on charges of sell- ing literature tending to corrupt the morals of the young. The judge's decision announced after a. perusal of the alleged im- be *Boston-Mor ONR. Run. 'Montreal, April 8.--A nine and 'one-half hour all-day run between on and Montréal, the fastest x "ever operated be- P 8 two cities, and making hr ed 'with Kingston, is in the new schedule he Central Vermont Railway, conjunetion with the Boston. and 'Maine and Canadian National Rail- 'ways, will put into effect on Sun- day, April 36th. moral "Hatrack" article in the Mer- cury came as a surprise to the com- paratively few persons who had gone "fate." guilty, so ke might carry his test case to the higher courts. THE HULL ELECTRIC RAILWAY I8 SOLD " ------------ By C.P.R. to International Pulp and Paper Company, It Is Reported a Ottawa, April 8 -- The Journal "this morning says: "One of the big- gest deals fn the history 6f Hull has been consummated, according to a reliable. local report, whereby. the Hull electric raflway, which is own- ed by the Canadian Pacific Raflway Company, has been sold in its en- -| tirety to the International Pulp and : Paper Company for the sum of $4, 760,000." . thes | Teachers Are Toronto, April 8--There be no doubt as to. the he Dai to the courtroom to hear Mencken's 3 Mencken had expected a verdiet of | WILD GEESE MARTHA OSTENSO * This magnificent novel, The 'Whig's new serial, winner of what is pro- bably the largest prize ($13,500) 'ever offered on the continent for a first novel, was unanimously chosen from among 1,380 competing manu- scripts because of its universal ap- peal, its unflinching picture of life, and its compelling story. v "Wild Geese" {8 a story of life in the bleak farm lands on the northern fringe of cultivation. Here in the Igst frontier of the New World, a harsh, unyielding soil claims desper- ate allegiance from the man who would coax from it a harvest. Caleb Gare is the most prosperous farmer {of Oeland, but that is because the bit- fer soil-has imbued him with all its harshness. His one passion is a lust for black acres, and the endless year- ly nursing of them. His wife, unpro- testing for the sake of her first son ~--who is not Caleb's--and his chil- dren, held in thrall to the power of his single-minded personality, are to him merely servants in the service of his one great mistress, thd soil. Over the whole story broods the portentous imminence of the gentle-spoken, im- placable . Caleb Gare. 'One small, bright flame of revolt flickers al- ways--Judith, the impetuous, mag- nificent daughter who knows, and 'dares to say, that Caleb is a fool and a tyrant. She has seen the wild geese flying free--and southward. "Wild Geese" 1s not merely the story of the Gared. It is an epic of the northern frontier. The life of a whole community is re-created in its pages. It is packed with living char- acters, moving over a living earth, jagainst a background whose wild, stark beauty is made to be seen and felt with that rare power that makes literature. The serial rights have been se- cured by The British Whig. The opening- chapters will be published Wednesday; April 14th. : 1 | | i | | IH EARL OF CAVAN MAY EE | THE EARL OF CAVAN: London, April 8.-The Daily Graphic, Independent, says it has excellent reasons for believing that the Earl of Uavan, former Chief of the Imperial General Staff, will sue- ceed Lord Byng as Governor-Gen- eral of Canada upon the expiration of Lord Byng's term of office at Ot- tawa in August. . The Earl of Cavan recently resign. ed the position of Chief of the Im- perial General staff, which he had occupied since 1922. He was A.D.C. to Lord Stanley'of Preston when the latter was Governor-General of Carn- ada, 1888-93. He is in his sixty- second year, aun 'wtade of j j (ETRE L # d B. wentation of the provinelal IRISH TITLED WOMAN FIRED AT MUSSOLINT She Tried to Kill Hersell in Rome One Year Ago. THE WOUNDED PREMIER Attended Meeting of Fascist Party in Aitemmoon--Has Held Firm Grip on Italy. -------- pat AAAS EE SLE EX XR + + MUSSOLINT STARTS OUT FOR TRIPOLL 4 Rome, "April 8---Premier % Mussolini passed am excellent # night and left his. residence # this morning for Plamincino at 4% the mouth> of the Tiber river. % here he will embark on the + battleship Conte Di Lavour for 4 a journey to Tripoli. > + * + + * +> + * * + + + * PPP RRP P LOLS Hy London, April 8---Reports from Rome this morning leave hardly a doubt tha: Mussolini's assailant was the Honorable Violet Albina Gibson, Baron Ashbourne's middle-aged sister, who is described as "of ec: centric habits." Neither the married a Frenchwoman and habitually in France, nor any member of the family, resides Ireland, the ancestral home of family. Violet Albina Gibson was hdrn in 1876 at Dalkey, County Dublin, and a little over a year ago was the central of a dramatic incident fa Some time pre- present baron, who lives other in the 2 one Ae- sire--to leave a mundene world, in- spired possibly by the motte on the family coat of arms--"Coelestes pandite portae" (Open, O Heaven- ly. Gates"). She was devoutly re- ligious and went to Rome in De- cember, 1924, for the papal jubilee ceremonies and stayed at a convent. One day the mother superior, alarmed at hearing a. shot-like sound, knocked at Volet's door. Ap- parently the woman had shot her- self, but she was able to open the door. She asked for a priest, to whom she stoically told of her ac- tion, explaining that she had fried to die for the "glory of God." She was sent to a hospital and recovered. Her frisnds say that she never took a prominent part in Irish poli- tics. Her mother died in England about a month ago. Mussolini Is About. Despite the attempt on his life Premier Mussolini went yesterday afternoon to the Palais Littoric to preside at the ceremony of the pre- secre- taries to the new directofiite of the Fascist party. . While Mussolini and his Fascist regime have a firm grip on all Italy, the opposition has active, es- pecially since the kidnapping an assassination of the anti-Fascist de- puty Mattaott! in June, 1924. Mussolini" organized the Fascist party at Milan in March, 1919, with a group of "young war yeterans as the nucleus. He entered the head of the Fascist forces 'on October 31st, 1922, and Aas been power since. He was in the nid preparations for KINGSTON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, APRIL 8 102. T [$2404 900020022000 * * % QUEEN'S PROFESSORS * TO ATTEND HARVARD + Professor H. R. MacCallum #% of the Department of Philoso- ® phy and Mr. M. D. C. Tait of #% the Department of Latin have *% obtained leave of absence from % Queen's University for a year's' # graduate work at Harvard, at # the end of which they expect # to obtain the degree'of Ph.D. 4' Each has been awarded an # Austin Scholarship for teachers % worth $400. * Cees 2000000000 0 -------------- INDIANA MAN POSED | AS AMBROSE SMALL | Charles Edgar Morris Has Po- | lice Regord ghd Was in 6 Hospital. In TE Albion, Ind., April 8.--The man under arrest here, who wired a To- ronto bank signing "Ambrose J. Small," and requesting $5,000, has been identified as Charles Edgar Morris. According to C. A. Lincoln, prosecuting attorney of Noble county, he has a criminal record dat- ing back to 1896, when he was sen- enced to Jollet, Ills, penitentiary for horse siedling. Morris is five feet ten and seven- eighths inches tall, and weighs abgut 200 pounds. Small was five 140 when he disappeared more than six years ago. Morris is athletic in stature, has light-brown hair, turn- ing grey, and a grey beard. He has a number of bad teeth. Small had brown hair and moustache, streaked with grey, and was 53 years old. Morris escaped from an asylum for the criminal insane in Wisconsin, it is stated. MARITIME RIGHTS. Commission Is Appointed by Order- in-Council. Ottawa, April 8.--Sir Andrew . Rae Duncan, who headed the pro- vincial commission on the Nova Scotia mining industry, will head the commission which will investigate maritime rights. Hob. W. B. Wallace, judge of the County Court, District No. 1, Nova Scotia. Professor Cyrus Macmillag, Gill University, Montreal. The commission was formally ap- pointed yesterday. The order-in-council creating it was passed on the recommendation of Premier King. a ------ ADVISORY BOARD ON TARIFF APPOINTED Alfred Lambert, Manufacturer, of Montreal, Replaces Joseph Daoust. Ottawa, April 8.--Préemier King announced in the House of Com- mons yesterday afternoon the com- position of the advisory board on the tariff. Rt. Hon. G. P, Graham is chairman. The other two members are Alfrea Lambert, -manufacturer, Montreal; D. G. MacKenzie, farmer, Winnipeg. Mec- feet seven inches tall and weighed | MORRISBURG PO APPROVED BY T Favors Granting of Permits for art Says the Government Will Do Its LAST EDITION, er Marts on a Battleship for Trip to Tripol WER PROJECT Hon. Charles $ Share in Helpiag the Scheme--laternational Engineers' Report Awaited. Ottawa, April 8.--The House of [Co as approving of the granting of per- mits by the Dominion Government to the Ontario Government and the Ontario Hydro-Blectric Commission for the development of electric pow-| er on the St. Lawrence River at the | Morrisburg dam and also for using | an increased flow of water from the! Niagara River. No action will be! taken by the Government in- the way | of granting such permits, however, before it has received the report of the international board of engineers | FRA TN a HON. CHARLES STEWART wn acting in behalf of Canada and the United States and now investigating the question of St. Lawrence devel- opments, - The Ontario Government and the Hydro-Blectric Commission have been Tmits since 1923, but the Govern- ment has withheld them on the ground that the development of pow- er®n the St. Lawrence at the point in question ad an international as- pect, the international boundary cut- ting the river in two. It was held to be desirable that there should be an understanding between the United States and Canada as to the best means of developing the water power on an equitable basis. For the pur- pose of arriving at such an under- standing the Governments of Canada and the United States appointed a joint board df engineers to examine into and report upon 'the matter. This board, consisting of three Cana- dian and three American engineers, has been at work for a year and a! half or two years, and its report is expected in June. Minister in Sympathy. Hon. Charles Stewart, Minister of Interior, assured the House that once this report was received action would be taken by the Government on the | Ontario applications and there would' be no holding up of the development. The Government, the Minister de clared, was in sympathy with the Mr. Lambert replaces Joseph Daoust, whose name was originally included in the board. Hector Mac- Kinnon, of to, will be 'sécre- tary of the A The order-in-couneil appointing tHe board prescribes that: (1) The duties of the board shall be to Inquire into and hear repre- senfations on all matters pertaining to the tari?'f and other forms of proposals for increasing the power supply of Ontario, but he was per- suaded that there should be a policy in thi¢ matter acceptable to both Can- ada and the United States. There was a difference of opinion between engineers as to whether there should be one or two develop- mnts at Morrisburg, and this would be reported upon by the international board. Mr. Stewart was himself of the view that two 4eeloni ts would be best. The yy said the Minister, was as anxious 48 the province of Ontario to Hmit de . RE ' Tho Resolution, a The text of Mr. Chureh's resolu- tion was as follows: "That, jn t 'opinion of this House, the Gover | States. | permits for the development pi doubtedly there Mr. Stewart said he had disew the matter with a number of ple, and had had considerable respondence with Premier ! son, of Ontario. He had made move without the knowledge of ¢ Ontario Government and the Hyd Commission. So far as the fed . government was centerped, the was po dispute in respeet to ' ownership of the water "nor had the government raised any question with respect to the right of the p vince of Ontario to develop po along the international remch." a Difference in Opinion. The difference in opinion of an engineering nature was whethe there should be one or two devel ments along the water reach question, The question was under the consideration of an internation al board composed of three engin- eers appointed by the Canadian vernment, and fNree by the Un bog The federal administra had received assurance that the = Joint report of this board would ; available by June at the latest. mediately upon receipt' of t port, the government would ceed to deal with the application he Ontario Government and the dro Electric Commission. It was important, in the ¢ fon of Mr. Stewart, that a de Policy should be arrived at hetw the Canadian and United States G ernments with respect to the & velopment of this + Internation: reach. : . While not desiring to express opinion on an engineering ques Mr. Stewart added, "I 05k ro ena The Dominion Government was as anxious as the Ontario ties that no delay should take in dealing with the whole qu of the application."Mr. Stewart cluded by reiterating his declas that as soon as the report of board was received in June, would be no: "hold-up" insofar the Government was concerned, taking action on the a lecation. Mr. Stewart said that the Go ment was perfectly willing to fase of on the St. Lawrence, after the of the joint engineering bo received. He did not think Ross (Kingston) needed to do 1] | worrying on account of delay of the proposed canal develops The Kingston member had ex: ' the opinion that the scheme might | long delayed. : \ & Mr. Stewart suggested | resolution should be anni) the reason that negotiat{dns ! really still under 'way with United States. Mr. Church agreed to delete word "forthwith" with Teppect. the time for granting leave ceed with the development. The resolution as amen carried without division, rast -- THE LEG