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The Oshawa Daily Times ' : SUCCEEDING "The Oshawa Daily Reformer ; E TE Sy Sa OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1927 10 Cents a Week; 2 Cents a, Copy. TWELVE P# > TWO HOUSES, STORE BURNED AT HAMPTON J Severe Storm Sweeps Over Three States Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland Suffer From ind Rain and Floods CURLING CLUB TO 'REORGANIZE TONIGHT BS Organization of the Oshawa Curling Club for the coming sea- son will take place at the club's quarters at the curling rink, Bond street east, tonight. President W. J. Holland and Secretary Er- nie Parsons have issued the an. nual call, The business session scheduled to commence at 8 'clock and all curlers are asked attend. Important items are the agenda, most prominent the election of officers. discussions pertaining to welfare of the club will also held. 60,000 MAY STRIKE IN AUSTRALIA Waterside Workers and Em- ployers Fail to Come to Terms & FS' CREWS ALSO 7 vt Tie Ports Congestion Up Navigation in and Create (Cable Service To The Times By Canadian Press) Sydney, Australia, Dec. 1.-- Prospects 'that fifty thousand workers will be idle tomorrow has presented itself in Australia as a vesult of the inability of the striking waterside workers and their employers to come to terms. The mines already are closing down, while shop owners have de- slaved that if men do not go to york on employers' terms the vessels will remain tied up. Mel- ourne is also affected as arc varions Australian Ports, LM. CG. A, SURVEY ORK PROGRESSING . D. Otter, of National "Y" Council to Report on Local Situation Mr, E. D. Otter, of the Canadian National Council Y.M.C.A. head of- ice in Toronto, is in Oshawa for a ew days again this weel:, The pur- se of his visits is to determine the attitude and interest in the Y. A. not only as it now exists but Iso with reitrence to a modern plant nd program under efficient leader- lip, The result of Mr. Otter's sur- ery of the situation will determine hether the YMCA. will close and e sold or mac a large expansion 1 keeping with the growth oi Osh- wa. It has recently been reported i the press that St. Catharines is uilding a £250,000 joint Y.W.CA.- M.C.A. building somewhat similar > that built in Windsor three years 0. It is expected that a definite re- rt on the Oshawa Y.M.C.A. will be rtheoming within the next three els. RD AGAINST HOLD-UPS "oronto, Dec, 1.--Acting on infor- ation that a holdup was to be de at a Government liquor store yesterday, plain clothesmen and formed detectives guarded each ore In the eity. Money cars also double guards. Attempted rob- ry, if it was projected, was called Damage Will Reach Thou. sands of Dollars --Storm of Hurricane Proportions Followed By a 30 Degree Drop in Temperature -- Rivers Overflow Banks HORNELL DIKES BREAK AWAY Shipping on the Upper Great Lakes Practically Tied Up --Increase in Marine In. surance Effective Last Night and Arrival of the Storm Gives Shipping a Severe Setback (By Associated Press) New York, Dec. 1.--Storm swept districts of the New York State, Pennsylvania" and Maryland today faced the. prospect of freez- ing weather as they took stock of the damage of high winds, rains and floods, Wind and rain storms of almost hurrican force swept Williamsport, terday. At Williamsport the storm Pa., and Cumberland, Md., late yes- was followed by a thirty degree drop in temperature, No lives were lost ,s0 far as was known, Hornell, N.Y., in the western part of the State was under four to five feet of water this morning and three hundred families were marooned in their homes, Other points in the Canisteo River Val- (Continued on page 3) SHOKE IN ATTIC CAUSE OF ALARM Fire Department Answers = Call to Burk Street Smoke from Soldering About 33) o'clock yesterday afte noon the fire reels responded to 2 call to 27 Burk street, a. new resi dence owned hy D; Jackson, No fir vas found, but smoke im. the attic was responsible for the alarm,' FEleg- tricians had been soldering in the hasement for a steady perind of oyer two he and the smoke from their ff, perations apparently went up through the wall and came out in the attic. When this smoke was noticed in the attic, it was though that the building wes on fire, The alarm reached the fis» station in rather a noyel manncr. The man who not'zed the smolie either did not know that there was a fire alarm box a block away from the house-- at King and Nassau strects--or for- got it in the excitement, so jumped in his car and rushed to the fire hall, informing the firement on duty that there was a blaze at the house, The dwelling is a new one that has not yet been occupied, so there is no telephone accommodation. FOUR KILLED AS TRAIN HITS AUTO Crash Occurs Near Decatur, Indiana--All Victims of Willshire, Ohio (By Canadian Press) Decatur, Ind, Dee. 1--Four per- sons were killed here today when an east hound Erie railroad freight train struck a sedan automobile at Mercer crossing. The dead are Alfred Stutt- ler, 36; Miss Hazel Lumonion, 24; Mrs. Kenneth Hoblet, 23; Robert Strickler, 33. All of victims were from Willshire, Ohio. Denritation Asks Extension of the Port Hope-Peterboro Highvay to Connect Up With. the : Whitby-Lindsay Road (27 Canadian Press) Yerento, Bee, 1----Considera- tion to their request for exter. tion of the Port Hope-Peters Lore' Highway so that it' would conmnecy with the Lindsay. | Viithy rosd, was promised 3 | deputation from Peterboro by Hon, George 5, Henry, Minis. ter of Public Works today, W. #. Pradburn, member' of the Io2islature for Peterboro, head- el the deputation which aso kopresented interested yillages, J DEPUTATION GIVEN GOOD RECEPTION Wait on Premier Ferguson Today to Appeal for Lower Hydro Rates HEARING AT 2.30 F. L. Mason, G. D. Conant and J, O, Herity Present Case (Special To The Times) Toronto, Dee. 1--Promise of most cordial consideration of Central On- tario's hydro rates and power probh- lem was promised by Premier G. Ferguson this afternoon to a depu tation composed of Central Oatario Power Association members, mayor of municipalities, and members City Councils and business associa tions in general from the district. The deputation assembled at the Parliament Buildings at 2.30 p.m, and were ushered into the prime minis ter's offices. The business of the deputation was presented by ex Mayor F. L, Mason of Oshawa, pr sident of the Central Ontario Power Association, and J, O. Herity, the secretary, manager of the Belleville Chamber Commerce, The request for Government relief in the matter of hydro rates was presented by G. I, Conant, Vice president of the association, Previous to the deputation's wait- ing on Premier Ferguson, the mayors of the 15 municipalities concerne'l were entertained at luncheon in the King Edward Hotel by President Mason, Ogshawa's ol deputation, headed by Mayor Preston, assembled at the Parliament Building shortly before the hour set for the conference with the premier. : President Mason expresscd himsclf as well satisfied with the assurance obtained from the prime minister and the deputation in general feels that a * solution of the hydro rates problem in this district is nearing : olution of great value to all con- cerned, : It is expected that the Central On tario Power Association will he call ed together for a meeting early mn the New Year probably to hear re ports of progress and, if necessary, take steps leading to action by the Legislative Assembly when it meets | gain, 3400000 LOSS IN MONTREAL BLAZE Heavy Damage to Plant of Ayerst, McKenna & Harrison Montreal, Dee, 1---A. W, Ayerst, of the firm of Ayerst, McKenna and TTarricon, today estimated at $400, 000 the damage to the building and stock done by fire that broke out at the firm's plant on Craig street early today, At ten o'clock ruins of the building were shill smouldering and a new shift of *iremen went to the scene, The cause of the otubreak was attribu- ted to a chemical explosion, GROUP INDEPENDENT REPUBLICAN SENATORS HAVE OWN SLATE (By Associated Press) Washington, D.C., Dec. 1--A group of independent Republicar senators decided definitely today to go before the party caucus tomor- row with a programy of its own. While Independents are ready to buck the slate of the party regu- lars for some of the Senate offic- ers, the group decided to keep its plans seeret pending disposition of their proposal by the regular lead- ers, 685 PATIENTS GET FREE TREATMENTS DURING NOVEMBER (By Canadian Press) Toronto, Dec. 1.--Some 655 pa- tients received free treatments of Insulin for diabetes from the Ontario Government throughout the Province in November, 945,800 units being distributed. WEATHER Roderate to fresh wins, partly clondy and cold today and Friday local sngw flurries. \ Train Crew Search Wreckage of Auto for Occupant But Later Find Him at the Scene of Accident Only Slightly Dazed (By Canadian Press) Ottawa, Dec, 1--J. Rodger Binks of this city is ready to admit that November 30 is his lucky day. Driving his car to Kingston through the rain storm yester. day, Binks was traversing the railway crossing near Harting ton when a train rounded the bend and struck his car almost broadside, The train screeched to a halt and the engine crew searched the auto wreckage which had been carried some hundred yards from the cross. ing, but could find no occupant, Later Rinks was discovered back at the sceme of the crash, slightly dazed and with a bruis- or two on his legs, but other. wise uninjured, He returned homie by train after medical ex. amination failed to reveal ine - ternal injury, DEFENDS CHICAGO IN BRILLIANT ADDRESS TO LOCAL SCHOOL COUNCIL LARGE INCREASE IN MEMBERSHIP IN ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH -- Preparatory scrvices are to be held in St, Andrew's Church on Friday evening at 7 o'ciock when over sixty new members aro to be received into the fel- lowship of the church, A so. clul helf-hour is being arrang- ed after the service when the new members and others will be entertained by the members of session and their wives, and an opportunity will be given to get acqutainted with one an. other, The Communion Services are to bo held on Sunday morning next when a record attendance is anticipated, The Church ana Sunday School as they are now warplete are evidently making a strong appeal to both old and young, ARMORIES NOW A GOWER OF BEAUTY FOR ANNUAL BALL Will Be Premier Event of the Social Year in Oshawa Decorators hitve transformed the driil hall of the Ontario Regiment armories into a bower fit for the staging of tomorrow night's annual Regimental Ball when the beauty and gallantry of Ontario County will gather for the premier event of' Oshawa's social year, The walls of the drill hall are hidden by masses of evergreens against which, tomorrow, masses of cut blooms are to be displayed. Special lighting fixtures have been installed and the galleries and dome of the hall draped with the Regimental colors, LET CONTRACT FOR FLIN FLON LINE (By Canadian Press) Montreal, Que., Dec. 1--Official announcement issued from head- quarters of the Canadian National Railways here today said that eon- tracts for the construction of the Flin Flon branch line in northern Manitoba have been let by the Do- minion Construction Company and Tomlinson of Toronto and Winni- peg. Dr. George Kerby, Calgary, Vice President World Fed- eration of Education, De- clares "Big Bill" Thomp- son Not Representative of Real Chicago GREAT INTEREST IN EDUCATION Chieago apart from its loud-mouth- d mayor and criminal element was lefended at the Collegiate Institute last night by Dr. George Kerby, president of Mount Royal College, Calgary, and vice-president of the World Federation of Education, in an address delivered under the aus- pices of the Oshawa Home and School Club Council, " 'Big DBiil' Thompson is not re presentative of the real Chicago," he declared, "some of the finest people fn the world live in that city, Their nterest in the problem of education is shown in the fact that the Parent Teacher Associations of Illinois, cen- tering largely in Chicago, numbers 100,000 members." Dr. Kerby's brilliant address dealt with the organization, service and future possibilities of Home and School or Parent-Teacher Associa: tions not only of Canada, but of this continent and the world, The move ment has established its frontiers co- equal with civilization. In"its in- terest in education and the service which it may render is today's solu- tion of the problem of the modern child, Looking into the future, Dr, Kerby saw new fields for education. Safety, he declared, must become a part of the education of the child, "There are today at least 50 more ways for children to get hurt," he declared, "than when I was a boy. And beyond that is the problem of (Continued on page 3) BANS LYNCHING IN VIRGINIA STATE Governor Places This Crime on a Par With Murder (By Associated Press) Richmond, Va., Dec. 1--Govern- or Harry F. Byrd has given warn- ing that ghe lynch law will not be countenanced in Virginia, Deserib- ing the recent lynching near the the Virginia-Kentucky border as a 'dastardly and cold blooded crime", Governor Byrd declared in a state- ment issued last night that "It fs full time for Virginia to make an example of those committing the crime of lynching and to punish the guilty as other murderers are pun. ished." $50,000,000 Auto Merger Combines Four Companies W. C. Durant Believed to] Be Behind Move -- Con- tinental Motors of De- troit, Peerless and Jordan Companies and Hupp Mo- tors Are Included Detroit, Noy. 30--The rumor that today gained wide circulation and caused considerable interest in auto- motive and financial circles of a cerns cannot be verified. Semi-official announcement linked the names of Continental Motors of Detroit, Peerless and Jordan com- panies and Hupp Mog, which wou'd result in a $50,000 combine. It was also broadly hinted that behind it all was the hand of W. C. Durant, it being his first step toward a plan of consolidation of various motor car companies on which it is believed he has been working for some time. It was pointed out that Continen- tal manufacturers the motor for the Star Automobile Company, the larg- est of the Durant concerns. R. W. Judson, president of the Continental Motors Corporation, to- day denied his company is involyed in a merger. "It is unfortunate that the automobile industry seems to have become a fertile field for the birth of rumors pertaining to pros- pective mergers, some of which have included our corporation," Mr. Jud- son said. "In fairness to our stockholders (Continued on page 2) 7 BOOTLEGGER IS RELEASED 13-Year-Old Edwin Horlick, Port Burwell, Allowed to Go Home REPRESENTATIONS Given 13 Months for Selling Liquor--Will Be Under Supervision (By Canadian Press) Toronto, Dee, ' 1--Thirteen-year- old Edwin Horlick, Port Burwell Ont., who was sentenced to thirteen pronths for selling liquor, will be released from Victoria Industria' School at Mimico and allowed to re turn to his parents. He will be un der the supervision of J. J. Kelso of the Ontario Children's Aid Soci ety, Representations had been mad from boys' work organizations, urg ing that the parents should have control of the boy, stated Hon, W 8. Price, Attorney General téday. "We propose to suggest to the industrial school board throug! Mr. Kelgo that the hoy be releases in the care of his parents and un der the supervision of tne Chi dren's Aid Society", Mr. Price saic "We think it might be better start him off in life that way thar to start him from the industria school", The boy had been sentenced at St, Thomas. The youth to whonr hr sold liquor later committed sui- cide, CUSTOMS RETURNS IN'NOY. $452,202 Increace of $38,843 Over Corresponding Month of Last Year Increases of $38,843.65 are noted in the customs returns for the Port of Oshawa for November over the cor- responding month of last year, ac- cording to figures compiled at the local offices of the Department of National Revenue. This is a de- crease of $273,148.75 over October. In November of this year the returns amounted to $452,292.76, while during the same period a year ago they were $413,349.11, The figures for October of this year were $725441.51. Explaining the large decrease in November to that of October, the local collector, D. A. Valleau, said the trend of the motor trade has much to do with it. "People are not buying as many cars now as thgy did then. They're all waiting for the new models," said the collector. He pointed out that a decrease in the returns is to be expected every year during November and they can't be compared to the collections' made during October. Predicting that when the fiscal year rolls around to an end the local port will show, in its annual statement, an average of one million dollars per month. Mr. Valleau went on record as believing this year will be well ahead of the last fiscal year insofar as local returns of this branch of the department are concerned. MANY NEW READERS AT PUBLIC LIBRARY General Increases in Past Month in Circulation of All Classes of Books General increases in the circula- tion of the various departments of the Oshawa Publie Library are not- ed in the figures released today cov- ering November. The total number of books taken out by members was | 7,301 and of this number 5,530 were adult, while the remaining 1,- 771 were juvenile. This, on the whole, is nearly a thousand over last month, the increase being due to the demand for books due to the winter months. Fiction, as usually is the case, proved to be the most favorite class, and in the admit department the circulation in this class was 4,904 and the non fiction 626. Ju. vemile fiction totalled 1,137, thus leaving the non-fiction at 634. Lit- erature stood mext in rank te fic- tion; then came history and closely on behind was biography. The li- YOUTH F UL Disastrous Blaze Is Caused By Overheated Pipe; Occupants Escape Started in Residence of Mrs. Martin and Spread to the House and Store of R. Croft -- Buildings Razed to the Ground--Loss Par- tially Covered By Incur- ance OCCURRED EARLY THIS MORNING Occupants Detect Smoke About Midnight and Have Barely Time to Grab Clothing and Leave -- Nearly Overcome By the | Smoke -- Entire Village Threatened -- A Heavy Snowstorm and Bowman. ville Fire Department Pre- vent Spread (By Staff Reporter) Hampton, Dee. 1--A heavy snow storm and the quick arrival of the Bowmanville fire department prob- ably saved the village of Hampton from the worst fire in its history at an early hour this morning. Dam- age estimated to be about $8,000 was done, the fine frame residence of Mrs Emmanuel Martin and the store and frame residence of Mr. R. Croit, general merchant, being totally de- stroyed. From what can be learned, the blaze started in the residence of Mrs. Martin, apparently from overheated stove pipes. The occupants Mrs, Mar- tin and her son, Charles, were sleep- ing in bed when they smelled smoke about twelve o'clock and upon awak- ening found they had barely time to get enough clothes on to leave the building. Hurriedly seizing some clothing and partially dressing them- sclves, they rushed into the street and alarmed neighbors. After they had finished dressing, they found that it was an impossibility to return into the building, either to save their furniture or to fight the flames, so dense was the smoke. For some minutes no flame could be seen, but a black cloud of smoke rolled out of the house and {filled the southern (Continued on page 3) TO SERVE HABEAS CORPUS PAPERS TO UPSET CONVICTION (By Associated Press) New York, N.¥.,, Dec. 1.--- Papers in the habeas corpus action designed to upset the conviction of Henry Judd Gray, who with Mrs. Ruth Snyder is awaiting execution January 12 for the murder of the woman's husband, will be filed late today in the Federal Court in New York, Samuel Miller, Gray's coun- sel, announced. The action, he said, is based upon the claim that Gray i8 fllegally detained at Sing Sing prison. He declined to di- vulge further details pending for- mal action. DEATH COMES TO LADY BEAVERBROOK Illness Ends With Heart Failure--Wife of Noted Paper Publisher (By Associated Press) London, Dee. 1.--Lady Beaver: brook, wife of Baron Beaverbrook. London newspaper publisher, aied early today after an fllness which ended in failure. Lady Beaverbrook was Miss Gladys Drury, daughter of the late General Charles William Drury of ifax, N.S. She married Baron Beaverbrook, then William Max- well Aiken, in 1906. bh TO ELIMINATE 300 U. S. BROADCASTING RADIO STATIONS (By Associated Press) Washington, D.C, -Dec. 1.--Elimk nation of possibly three hundred off the present 694 broadcasting stations operating in the United States dus ing the coming year has been des cided by the Federal Radio Com sion, RIDICULES PROPOSAL OF SOVIEE Manchester Guardian Sa: 'Nations Not Prepared for Total Disarmament & 1 MERE "FOOLISHNESS" | Says Russians Are Unfitted as They Are Unwilling to Aid Peace fe: " (Cable Service to The Times By Canadian Press) : London, Dec. 1--The Manchester Guardian, which 1s noted for + pacific tendencies, made edito comment today on Russia's urgin| total world disarmament, "Ru sians are as naturally unfitted. as they are unwilling to make the League of Nations an effective in. strument of peace", the Guardian says. "They know as well as the rest of the world that, apart from' such states as are virtually disarms ed already, there is not one ready even to consider such a proposals | Its formal registration at Geneva will make little practical difference except so far as it may enable Rus- sians to prosecute their anti.-League propaganda with greater vigor tham ever." : The Guardian continues by | serting that the Soviet Governisont is pariah among the nations and that it may be taken for grante® that its proposal forthe forming of non-aggression pacts among the nations, "will be generally held up to ridicule and contempt either ag mere foolishness or as a trap for other more civilized and progress ive states". Continuing, the Guard. ian says "nevertheless, the contrast will remain between its professions | and those of its mentors to which ridicule and abuse are no effective answer," ¢ BODY OF SON IS FOUND IN RIVER Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., Dee, Lo J. A, Luger, of Minneapolis, Mipn., has offered a reward of $1,000 for the discovery of those responsible for the death of his son, C. A, Luger, | Green Bay, Wis, whose body was found in St. Mary's River here last month after a few days' search, Lus ger's family suspect foul play though it was assumed that Luger had fallen from the International railway - ' so . bridge. GETS TWO MONTHS . ON LIQUOR CHARGE Two months in jail, without ¥he option of a fine, and with the ; ment of the costs, was the sen of this city when he was handed down on Prokop in Police Court yesterday A of keeping liquor for sale. The ar- rest was made by Provincial police following a raid on Bachuk's house, To oe Ritson road south, some time ago, | New Ford Prices Announced : Today; Prices $495 to $740 (Special to Ford, Ont., Dec. 1---Prices of the 'mew Ford cars and trucks were announced tomight by W. R. Campbell, yice-presi- dent and treasurer of the Ford Motor Ci of © Limited brarian points out that the increas- ed demand for class books fis mo-| table, : The mew Ford Tudor will sell for $640, fob. the fae. tory at Fond, Ontario, freight The Times) ¥ and government taxes and bumpers extra. : The mew Ford Phaeton will