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a Growing City y ( pe -- VOL. 1--NO. 52 Samiare snd Publi Teldars The Oshawa Daily Reformer fre Oshawa Baily Times Pa OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1927 10 Cents a Week; 2 Cents a Copy, Cr RE------ Second Section--Pages 9-14 General Motors Athletic Meet a Great Success Much Interest in First Of Series of Meets to Be Held Here This F all L Keen Competition in Running snd Jumping Events, While One of Best Features of Evening's Program Was Final for Tug-of-War -- Large Crowd on Hand for First Meet ! Hundreds of spectators and scores of competing athletes were in attendance at the first athlete meet of the season last night at Alexandra Park by the Association of General Motors Employees. Va- rious track and fleld events togeth- er with Interdepartmental and ex- hibition tugs-of--war rounded out an interesting program and should the enthusiasm shown at this meet be displayed continuously this fall, Oshawa will enjoy an athletic as well as an industrial boom, Many of those who competed last night have not been long in training and as a result there were no ex- ceptionally remarkable performanc- es. The best showing of the even- ing was made in the half mile event which Murray Hainer after a spir- fted run raced ahead of Oswald Weeks and G. Creamer. The time, 2.15.4 for this event, though not a record, Is good. In heaving the sixteen pound shot 32 feet 9 inch, es, D. McLellan hung up a record which will take considerable beat- ing. Final Tug-of-War, Probably the most interesting event was the final of the inter-de- partmental tug-of-war which the heavy export team won after two strenuous and mighty pulls with the Hood representatives. The first pull took several minutes during which the lighter Hood team held their heavier opponents and at one stage almost: pulled' them, = But the win- ners apparently waiting for their PICNIC FOLLOWS TOURISTS' RESCUE FROM SHIPWRECK (By Canadian Press) Wrangell, Alaska, Sept, 1,--The aftérmath of a shipwreck was turn- ed Into a picnic today as 270 tour- {ts from the steamer Princess Char- lotte, rescued when the vessel struck a reef Tuesaday night, plunged into a program of social events while awaiting the arrival of the re- lief ship to take them to Vancouver. DENIES DEALING IN LIOUOR OR OF SHARING PROFITS William Duff, M,P,, Tells the Cuctoms Probe Payments Refund of Loans INQUIRY AT OTTAWA ive | A Tron group of mining Wade, B, Sc, | "Delegates to Mining Conference Represent Many Millions part in the travelling mining and vii Bnd Cn ed in British mines are represented by the group. Amo them : invest manager, Modder East Lid, and ay: by he iri Ag ham are; (1) 14, Col, Jess Fain, 0.B.B., sonata desia, Technical College Institute of Metals, Czechoslovakia C England @ (8) Alpheus Williams, manager do Beers Coun, Burvey Dept, Tanganyika, Bast Africa, Council, * (7) Prof, J, G, Lawn, 0.B.E,, of Kimberley, Bouth Africa, i i 7) ©) 7.8, First Session of the Last Sitting of Royal Customs Commission Ottawa, Sept. 1.--Willlam Duft, M.P., popularly known as the "Ad- miral of the Fleet" at Lunenburg, $10,000 Surplus Marathon Swim Is Divided Between Four Women Competitors appeared before the Royal Commis- sion on Customs this afternoon to deny Tory propaganda to the effect that he has made a lot of money out of rum-rupning. Phe ruddy-faced Nova Scotian skipper was most ems. phatic in his statement that he never rivals to tire, suddenly' braced and | pulled out. It as a beautiful exhibi- | tion. The secopd tug was a repe- | tition of the first but did not last | 80 long. The members of the win- | ping team were T. Scott, C. Popson, E. Cockerham, C. Lee, I. Bowler, L. Leonard, B. Stapleton and T. Wil- loughby. The runners up were J W. Everett, W. Mason, M. Swartz. J. Swartz, F. Gomcluck, L. Ste- phens, J. Campbell and S. Burnett. Four teams were entered and in (Continued on page 13) DEVELOPING NEW MYSTERY WHEAT New Variety in the Peace River Belt to Ripen 18 Days Earlier EE Edmonton, Sept. 1.--Herman Trelle, world's champion wheat and oat grower. is paving the way for a mew triumph that will likely cause a stir in the grain-growing belts of Canada and the United States. This purchased, never smuggled and never sold one gallon of rum in his life, nor, he said, was he interested, di- rectly or indirectly, in the purchase, smuggling or sale of rum. The yarn that he had made a pile of money bringing liquor from St. Fierre and landing it on the coast of Nova Scotia or transferring it to ships off Rum Row, New York, was just an invention of the wicked Tories, who sought to bring about his defeat as a Liberal candidate for Parliament, said Mr. Duff. Credit for Many Things "I get credit for a lot of things in Lunenburg," explained the gal- lant skipper. "Last Christmas a crippled boy got an anonymous pres- ent of a radio set, and [ got the commonly 'EMIGRATION KING' GETS FOUR YEARS Naples, Sept. l.--Lkrnesto Acanfora, Emigration ,' was sent to the penal colony for four years on sentence by the Pro vincial Commission for Admonition. He was found guilty of persistently smuggling board ships bound for the States and of taking the money of bundreds of peasant victims lured with false promises of getting them to Am- erica. called "The would-be emigrants CONVICTED EDITOR SUES 2 DETECTIVES Asks $10,000 | Damages for "Malicious Arrest" o -- $3,500 is Awarded to Lottie United credit for giving it." had Mr. Duff told the Commission he shares in some forty vessels sailing out of Lunenburg, but had not a controlling interest in any of them. Referring to the seizure near Pictou of the schooner W. C. Ken- nedy, Nassau-bound, with a cargo of liguwor from St. Plerre, Mr. Duff stated that a vessel often would be off her course by reason of the fact that she might run into a gale and lose her foremast or bowsprit. He understood the Kennedy had come Tampa, Fla., Sept. 1.--Jobhn L. Hackney, assistant city editor of the Tampa Daily Times, who was convicted of comspiracy to violate the prohibition law, filed suit Tues- day against two detectives, Lawr- ence Ponder and Harry L. Myers, who arrested him. He charges "il- legal and malicious arrest" aud asks $5,000 damages of each. Hackney and B. Z. Angle, city editor of the paper, were sentemc- ed to 190 days in jail on conviction of liguor charges in connection with the t closi of the "Key into Halifax to secure a new sp was bad. Payments Simply Loans 000--Mr. Duff loans. . Nova Scotia coast. boom and fresh water, because the water she had taken at St. Pierre In explanation of payments from J E. Ernst--one amounting to $25 - sald he frequently loaned Mr. Ernest money and fre- quently borrowed from Mr. Ermst. These payments would simply be Mr. Rowell--The story jis that Ernst made the money bringing rum from Demerara and selling it off the Mr. Duff--1 have mot the faintest Club" here, and their attorneys sought to show that their arrests had been ordered by Municipal Judge Stalnaker because of articles the paper published about the case. They appealed. Angle said he: would mot bring suit as he had voluntarily surrem- dered when he heard the detectives were 'eeking him. Victoria, BC. Sept. 1. --Rev. Dr. W. L. Gay, Moderator of the Presbytor- jam Church in Canada and pastor of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church here, will leave on September 11 or 12 om his first tour of Canada in his capac- ity of moderator. Dr. Clay will visit all the synods of da during his abs vce with the C exception of the synod of British Col- umina. Schoemmel, $3,000 to Eth- el Hertle, $2,000 to Edith Hedin and $1,500 to Mar- tha Stager -- Will Not Be Annual Event Toronto, Sept. 2--The swim was a success. That is the opinion of H. W. Waters, General Manager of the Cana- dian National Exhibition. "The arrangements were well-nigh perfect," he said last night. "The fact that it went "off with such an easy splash, in the face of so much possible danger, is proof of that. The only hitch was at night, and that was un- foreseen. We thought the boats would, of course, carry searchlights. Another time | would advise lighting the water at night" Not an Annual Event Asked if the swim might develop into an annual affair, or be repeated in the future, Mr. Waters gave a de- finite "No!" as his answer. He ex- plamed that the swim came at the psychological moment when interest in swimming was very high, and that, as was the case with marathon racing, it would more or less die a natural death, unless another great war should appear. Outside of its great advertising fea- tures, making the CNE. known all over the world. the swim had other practical values to Mr. Waters. One of these was that it caused a great many people to think of learning to swim, something which nothing else could have dome. To Divide Prize-Money Vierkoetter, Michel and Erickson will get their first, second and third prize-money at the Exhibition in fromt of the Grand Stand on Friday after- noon at 3 pam, when President Dixon will make the presentations. A surprise announcement last even- ing was that to the offect that four women swimmers are to divide $10,000, as follows: Lottie Moore Schoemmell, New York, $3,500; Ethel Hertle, New York, $3000: Eduh Heden, Toronto. $2000, and Martha Stager, Portland, Ore., $1,500. All these women made splendid of- forts to cover the 21-wile course. Mrs Schoemmell swam 17 miles, the far- thest of any women contender: Miss Stager swam the longest; Miss Hertle swam the fastest and was in fourth place at the end of the second lap when she was takem out. She could mot ACTIVITIES il to four smaller vessels? - {the total had veached $39774. BUILDING Guelph, Ont, Sept. 1.--An increase of approximately $22000 is noted in Guelpl's building permits issued dur- ing the month of August as compared with the sane period in 1926. Last vear permits taken out totalled $17.960, while at the end of the past month There is also an increase of $96547 from | January to August, 1927, over the per- iod January to August, 1926, the form- er amounting 16 $351662, while the fod the winner of the race had dwind- stand the cold. Miss Stager says she would have finished if the buoys had been lighted, and she could have found her way around the triangle. Exickson Comes in Thind William Erickson was the third and the last to finish the marathon swim. The hundreds of thousands whe greet- lod to a few score. Exhibition City had become almost deserted, the build- ings that had blazed with light were dark blocks agamst a dark sky. It was 831 in the morning. The tumult Mr. Duff did mot know. Newer Tratficked fin Liguer "I was mever interested in the purchase of liquor and never smug- led any liguor, mor did I ever buy A month going over Mr. Duff's books " AContinned on page 19) latter is $255,205. part and Owen Sound, Ont, Sept. 'sandlhole", situated on the Leith golf comrse a short distance off the man fairway. was the scene of a find a few days ago when human bones were dug ont of the sand. Iti the skull, some of the peculiar understood that the entice upper arm and the shouting which had greeted Vierkoetter seven hours before had died. Tens of thousands of people who had stayed till midnight to shout *Vixe la France" when Michel finished sec- ond had gone home and were asleep, while the lonely and unbeaten man, away out in the dark lake, stn on against exhaustion toward the goal. For those who waited, there was a quality about this epic cffort of the soli- tary swimmer that was not found in is of leg bones, etc, were excavated. the earlier victors. OSHAWA MAN FACED "THREE CHARGES IN WHITBY, PAYS FINES J. Ambrose is Given One Five and Two Ten Dollar Penalties LAST BAND CONCERT Truck Driver Cuts in on th Highway and Leaves Scene of Accident, is Charge (By Staff Beporter) Whitby, Sept. 2.--The last open air concert of the year was given by the Whitby Citizens' Band in the Town Park last evening. The fine weather and the knowledge that the band was putting on its final appearance combined to bring out a crowd comsiderably larger them mus- ual. The program was all that had been claimed. The band outdid it- self and every number was enthusi- astically applauded. The rendition of the selection from Maritana was particularly fine. The Medley of Plantation Songs met with a very popular reception also. Some of the special features of the bill unfor- tunately had to be chance led ow- ing to inability of the performers to be present. C. 8. Thompson gave a bass solo and encore. Charlie Brignall and Sid Erskine each gave bumorous numbers which met with the entire approval of the crowd. The evening's program reflects great credit on the whole band from Bandmaster down, and on the officials who in one capacity or oth- er have given time and thought to ite welfare. g Stole Motor Car. 2--Willlam John- mesday, that he would go to Toron- | to, which was quite proper but he made the trip in another man's car (Continued on page 12) AMELIA BINGHAM, 3 SUCCUMBS TO PN iA New York, Sept. 1. --Amelia Bing- ham, veteran actress, died today at her home on Riverside Drive, of pancuwmon- ia. She was 58 years ald. She was a great believer in spiritu- alism and her friends that had had communications with her dead husband, Lioyd Bingham, through a mediumistic friend. She confided to those nearest to her that ther fh: had recently sent a message "Don't think so much about write the book" This was in refer ence to her memoirs. on which been working for a long time. her illness she had rveceifed hu s of old-time friends at ther ide. NEW GEAR DEVICE FOR AUTOMOBILES Washington, DC. Sept. 1.--An anto- mobile gear device which does away with the engine flywheel, the clatch and differential has been devised by a British inventor at Newoastle-on-Tane. the Commerce Department was advised today by WViceConsul Lexis at ghat place. To change gears a vodking pedal is provided, the toe being nond "0 increase the gear and the heal to veduot it. A small lever on the dashboard has for- warfl, meutral and vevorse positions. "| ward, THIRTEEN KILLED IN INDIA DURING COMMUNAL RIOT Bareilly, British India, Sept. 1--Thir- teen persons were killed and 96 injured in a communal riot during a Hindu festival here last night. A Hindu pro- cession with bands, passing before a Mohammedan mosque, led to the fight- ing, which hecame so serious the police fire! sixteen rounds into the rioters, Strong reinforcements had to be called before the crowds were dispersed, BAGIHELOR HAS REARED BROOD OF SIX CHILDREN Admiral 4cCully Needs Neo Help Tending to Adopted Family of Russ Orphans New York, Aug. 30.--Among the passengers on the - Munson line steamship Pan-America, in from South American ports, was Rear Admiral Newton A. McCully, for 2 and a half years heud of the Unjh ted States naval mission to Brazil. He came in with six of the seven orphan children he adopted in Eur- ope in 1921, orphans by reason of the revolution in Russi... The sev- enth is a boy of 20 years old, now in a military school at Siaunton, Va. The admiral, a bachelor, who Is father, mother and all cise to the children, sald he is more enthusias- ace. He was not so enthusiastic six years ago when he brought tue youngsters to this country for the first time, he sald, because Lc frar- ed he would not be able to get them in, but, he added, the newspapers bad made it possible. He returns now to assume command of the Charleston paval area. The naval officer brought his children back without benefit of maid or nurse, but found the task no very great one, as long ago he had laid down "rules of living" for a 13-hour day beginning at 7 o'- clock in the morning and endiyg at 8 o'clock at night. These the children have learned to abide by. Keeping track of 20 pieces of bag- gae and two dogs during the voyage was not so easy. however. Never- theless the officer brought all his children off the vessel safely. TEXAS AIRMAN STAGES UNIQUE STUNT ON FIELD San Antomio, Tex., Sept. 1.--One of the strangest accidents that has ever occurred at a local flying field took place Tuesday when Livuten- ant L. E. Hunting skillfully landed his plape without landing gear. Hunting was flying over the field at Fort Sam Houston when his plane went into a tail spin at a low altitude. It struck the ground, bounced into the air and continued to fly. Realizing that his landing gear had been crushed, Lieutenant Hunt- ing headed for Kelly Field, where thepe is more room for delicate landings. He stalled his plane and skidded along the ground, handling the comtrols so skilifully that the plane did mot overturn or suffer further damage. Usually aviators would have used their parachutes under the eir- cumstances, but Lieutenant Hunting did mot wish to further damage the plane, an AT-4 pursuit aang ship. WOMEN'S SMOKING i CAR RIGHT UPHELD New York, Sept. 1.--Young wo- men, and those not so young, whe feel the yearning for a cigavet com- ing ave entitled at any time to saunter into the smoking cars of the Long Island railroad, P. H. Wood- passenger agent, made it known emphatically Tuesday. Mis answer was in reply to an Andig- nant commuter, who had suggested that a ladies' smoking car he pro- vided. Woodward said that most men seem to enjoy the presence of ladies in the smoking cars. As a matter of fast. he added. most of the minis coming in tic smokers are brought there by their boy friends. FOUND: MME ORWENAL NIGHTMARE Medford, Mass, Sep. 1.--The only sleap-walking horse on pecord was back in his stall Tnesday after a night of adventuve. His latest sonambulistic performance led him into a building where the worn ont planking dvopped him inie the ocell- ar. A five company extricated him. tic than ever over his foster-parent- | | Washburn, London, Windsor Fliers Forced Down; British Monoplane Is Missing Tulley and Medcalf Forced Down Near Caribou, Me,-- ~--Plane Undamaged and Fliers Safe -- Windsor is Forced Off Course By Fog and Lands on Account of Fire in Wing Windsor, Sept. 1--At 11.30 tonight the Royal Windsor Flight Committee received a telephone message from Schiller, pilot of the plane, speaking from St. Johns, Quebec. Schiller said the plane had been forced down by a slight fire in the right wing. The out- break was extinguished with chemicals, and an almost perfect landing was made with hut slight damage. to the landing gear. Schiller said the flight wouid be resumed in the morning, as repairs can be made within two hours. London Men Safe Caribou, Maine, Sept. 1--The mono- plane Sir John Carling, attempting a fight from London, Ont, to London, Eng., landed about 6 o'clock, Eastern standard time, tonight in an open field in_the Township of Washburn, six miles from here. Foggy conditions for- ced the fliers southward from their course to Newfoundland, and compeli- ed them to interrupt their flight. | The plane first appeared over the {town about 1.30 p.m., flying very low and circling as though in an effort to gain bearings and identify the town. It then headed off in a northeasterly direction toward the New Brunswick ine. { The next report came from Wash- (burn, when a farmer telephoned in that the plane had landed there. The pilots, Capt. Terry Tully and Lieut. James Medcalf, left the plane in the field where they landed for the night, and came into this town, going imme- diately to the Vaughan House. Continue in Morning St. John, N.B., Sept. 2--A message reccived here at an early hour said that the aeroplane with markings of London-to-London, which alighted on the farm of George Cochrane, at six miles from Caribou, {would continue its flight this morning if the weather was suitable. It based this on a statement by the fliers. A nicssage from Woodstock received by the Canadian National Telegraph Com- pany stated that the London-to-Lon- don aeroplane was : ghted over Wood- stock, N.B., at about 4 o'clock yester- day (Thursday) afternoon. [It was de- nied that they had reported secing the plane over St. J Harbor Grace, Nfid., Sept. 1--This town, which has become a terminal point for transatlantic flights, tonight kept vigil for three planes, two east- bound and the other westbound across the Adantic. At 9 o'clock local time, which corresponds to 6.30 o'clock Eas- tern standard, no word had come of any of the air voyagers. At that hour the British monoplane St. Raphael, bearing the Princess Lowenstein-Wertheim as passenger, Captain Leslie Hamilton, pilot, and Colonel F. F. Minchin, assistant pilot, was many hours overdue on its flight from Upavon, England, where it hop- ped off yesterday morning for Ottawa. From the early hours of the morning lighthouses and wireless stations along the Newfoundland coast had kept watch in vain for the plane. To the westward eyes were turned i" earch of i To e, ol ohn ing, to on the Harbor Grace flymg field tonight, com- pleting the first leg of a flight from London, Ont, to London, England. As the time drew mear when the plane was to arrive crowds ed from the se s ion Bay to greet Capt. Terry Tully and Lieu- tenant James Medcalf, pilot and navi- gator of | the . Later in the night Vv s in which Phil Wood and C. A. (Duke) Schiller are attempting a non-stop flight from Windsor, Ont. to Windsor, England, was expected to pass over the colony. TEN HORSES KILLED WHEN STABLES BURN Welland, Sept. 1.-- Fire teams of horses were burned to death early this morning when the stables at a construction camp on tho island be- twoen the Welland Canal and Wel- land River, a mile and a half from this town, weve completely destror- The stables and hors 8 ors, contractors on the new Welland Ship Canal. The loss is estimated at $5000. Neo cause casi he found for the five, bat it is hellevod thot some one smoking in the hava had set the stoaw afive. Severna! of the movk- men attempted te semave the ami- ger but the smoke wa top "ange to allow any ane to ent = tha - ing. Robert Gilvoy. stable "55 "an, was severely burned about the arms in his attempts. !