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EE Tr -- pe-- wre -r % CMU TIE en Ly RE ot 28 es EE h---- a The Oshawa Daily Times The Oshawa Daily Reformer An RS Sa NESDAY, CEMBER 7, 1927 10 Cents a Week; 2 Cents a Copy. : . nal To Erect $150, 000 Apartment House Here 0ST COSTLY UILDING OF AIND IN CITY Will Be Located at b It pa Avenue and Hy Simcoe Street hig! mac 10 BE THREE STORIES i Will Be of the Duplicate uw Unit Type, Each Having & 36 Suites pou hit Erection of the largest and most ""ostly apartment house group in shawa's history by H, H, Davidson, wher and builder, was today auth- Dyrized by the city engineer, The tructure will be of the duplicate unit be: each until containing 36 suites, d the combined cost is stated at |. 150,000, The apartments will be er- bcted at the corner of Buckingham | venue and Simcoe street north, face Fng the latter, Each of the units will be three stories high, and cover ground area 42 by 125 feet, H. J. Chown, of Toronto, is the grehitect and it is stated that the ipartments will be a credit to the {istrict when they are completed, 'ncidentally, the builder is conform- ng to the 30 feet street line of Sim- oe north and at considerable addi- ional expense, #. f the units are to be of solid ri -« merete, and steel construction of ne highest fire resisting type, "xteriorly they will be finished in rick and stucco, It is expected that the apartments vill be ready for occupancy early in he spring, The Armstrong Company's steam hovel has already started excava- on work, LEGED SPIES , ARE COMMITTED Two Appear in Bow Strect y Court -- Attempted fo Secure Information ) (Cable Service to The Times By Canadian Press) London, Dee, 7--George Hansen, jerman, and Wilfred McCartney, lescribed as an Irish American, vere committed for trial before the Jentral Crime Court on charges yrought under Official Secrets Acts by a magistrate in Bow Street Jourt today. The two prisoners are alleged. to ave attempted to collect informa- ion about British armed forces, jarticularly the air force, At a revious hearing it was brought hut that the men were gathering nformation believed to be useful 0 Soviet Russia. TRAFFIC DIVERTED TO CANADIAN PORTS Washington, D.C., Dec, 6--*"'Dis- rimination against American rail- loads, American ports and Ameri- fan shipping" by the Canadian and ustralian Governments is charged y the United States Shipping Board in its annual report to Con- ress. The restriction of the Brit- h preferential rate to goods im- orted through a sea or river port f Canada has apparently been suc- essful in its purpose of diverting raffic from United States ports to nadiecn ports and from American essels to vessels of British regis y. TRANSATLANTIC TELEPHONE FOR BIDS AT AUCTION London. Dec, 6~--Dr. A. 8. Ros- nbach, New York amd Philadel- hia bank collector, telephoning his ds from Philadelphia, today, ought a vellum copy of the first ldine Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, e mrost famous illustrated book I the fifteenth century. He paid £3,000 ($15,000) at the ction of the late Sir George Hol- prd's library at Southeby's, getting after a stiff filght with Quariteh, he London book dealer. Quaritch ot revenge when he outbid Dr. osenbach for the Landino "Dan- " of 1491, with a complete set engravings attributed to Bald- Ri. He paid £3.950 (almost $20,- Geneva, Dec, 7, -- Conditions which threaten to endanger the peace of Eastern Europe now ex. ist, Premier Waldamars of Lith. wania told the council of the Lea gue of Nations today, pening an attack on Poland in the present Peace Of Eastern Europe Endangered Lithuanian Premier Informs League (Cable Service to The Times by Canadian Press) $5,000,000; Permits Issued Yesterday To- telled Over $150,000 -- 1927 Record is Now $134,000 Above the $5, 000,000 Mark With the issue of over $150,000 of building permits yesterday, Oshawa's record building took a running start and cleared the $5, 000,000 goal by over $134,000, The official total for the year's 11 months and six days is $5,134,388, which does not take into account a clear additional $1,000,000 of construction in the city's suburbs, Building already authorized stamps December as a record build- ing month in Oshawa and there are four weeks yet to go, It is conserva- tively stated that the month's total will be close to $300,000, December's permits are headed by yesterday's warrant {issued to H, H. Davidson for the erection of a $150,000 apartment house group on Simcoe Street North at. Buek- ingham Avenue, Peter Boko is erecting a $4,500 home on St, Eloi street. It will be a storey and a half high and of : |brick veneer comstruction. T, Far- row is building a two story brick veneer house on Louisa street to cost $3,600, E, M, Disney has a $300 garage underway on Masson street. H. B. Brown is erecting a $100 garage on Quebec streey and Barclay Kilgour has a $75.00 gar- age under construction on Elliott street, BRITISH FIRMS ASK FOR LOWER TARIFF But Utensil Makers' Appeal is Met With Some Oppozition Ottawa, Dec. 6--The hearing be- fore the Tariff Advisory Board re- garding ena re and al hollow ware lasted only ten minutes this morning, the next sessicn on this reference being adjourned until some time in January, V. C[. Macdonald, Toronto, appearing for the British Aluminum Company, pointed out to the board that the British corncera was interested not only in rebutting the application of the Aluminum Company of Canada, with regard to which, he said, a brief, setting forth the stand of the British company, was coming from England, but that his own. company was now making an application to the Minister of Fin- ance for a reduction in the duty on aluminum circles used in manufactur ing. CANADA T0 AID WAR ON NARCOTICS Parliament Will Discuss the Geneva Convention Next Session Ottawa, Dee. 6--The Govern- ment of Canada will submit to Par- liament at the approaching session the Geneva Narcotics Convention of 1925 with a view to its early ratification. There are some gen or twelve different forms of drug ad- dicts in the Dominion, and the Ca- nadian authorities, in co-operation wih the Governments of 64 other nations, are endeavoring to combat the activities of the internatiomal drug ringand to free humanity from the hideous monster of marcotism. Building Permits Pass Record Climbs OCEAN LTD. TRAIN CRASHES INTO ENGINE TENDER DERAILED Press) e, Deg, TeIt from the Cana- dian itional Railway head. ttn here today that the Limited, bound for Montreal from Halifax, crash. ed into an engine at a switch 'near Riviere Dn Loup, The tratks were torn up and the Ocean Limited's tender derail. ed, There were no injuries, The accident necessitated a delay of four hours, following which traffic was restored, WCOLL BROS. OIL COMPANY 15 SOLD Bought By Montreal Firm for $10,000,000--Branch in Oshawa (By Canadian. P' 5s) Woranto, Dec. 7--The po, of Mec- Coll Brothers Limited, Oil Company of Toronto to Nesbitt, Thomson and Company Limited, of Montreal for $10,000,000 was announced today. The MeColl firm was refineries, warehouses, divisional centres and other branches from coast to coast, while the purchasers already control the Frontenac Oil Refineries of Que- ec, A $20,000000 merger of both com- panies is being speculated on as a re- sult of the sale, John W, McColl, president, said today the merger was Cxcesdingly probable if the Nesbitt Company really controls the Front- enac." The ix is equivalent to $65 a share or 150,000 shares, a total of 7 The Red; Indian Oil and Service Station on King street west, Oshawa, is @ branch of" the company that changed hands today according to H. F. Hall! local manager. Referring to the transaction, Mr, Hall stated he had heard there was a possibility of a sale, but he did not know that it. had been consummat- ed. "I don't think it will effect the local branch 2 files Shere is an over-| said in explain- gba interests own the fine station here and are at pre- sent erecting an elaborate one at Whitby. A modern station was built at Bowmanyille this summer. POISONING OF GIRLS IS STILL MYSTERY St. Catharines, Ont.,, Dec. 6-- When the coroner's inquest into the deaths of Jessie and Gladys Frets, daughters of Jacob Fretz, Vine- land, is held on Thursday at Beams- ville, the Crown will merely sub- 8 statement from the provin- 250 MEN AT G.M.C. ARE VACCINATED Initial Step Taken to Guard Against Smallpox in Ciy CONTINUE TODAY Fine Response of Employees to Request of Board of Health There are over 250 more citizens of Oshawa vaccinated today than there were yesterday, Employees of Ger:.ral Motors of Canada, Limited, from eight departments responded voluntarily to the request that all employees be vaccinated to guard a- gainst any outbreak of smallpox, This morning a staff of doctors and nur- ses and general assistants, was on hand and during the morning near- ly all members of the staff from the machine shop, wiring and harness, radiator dept, nickel plating, small parts, enamel and G.M.C, trucks, re- ceived the treatment, Speaking to The Oshawa Daily Times in connection with the Gen- eral Motors of Canada, Limited, ac- tion in asking all its employees to be vaccinated in accordance with the request of the Board of Health, H. L. Broomfield, head of the depart- ment of industrial relations, stated the men have turned out exceedingly well and that it is expected that be- fore the week is over every man on General Motors staff will be vaccin- ated, Drs. G. L, Bird, C. Ferrier, C, o. Miller and Grant Berry are in charge and tomorrow they will attend to the employees from the Sheet Metal and other departments of the Division street plant, A slight change in schedule was made late this afternoon and the following will be vaceinated tomor- row morning, No, 22 stock room, enamel plant, sheet metal, stamp- ing plant, central receiving and stock room, No, 4 stock room, in- spectors and elevator men of that department, On Friday morning the following will be vaccinated: wheel and hood paint, wheel and hood assembly, cushion builders, 25 assembly line, reject, 45 assembly line, 17 and 20 stock rooms, Body fitting, in- spectors, students and elevator men, service garage. Saturday morning the following will report for vaccination: domres- tic shipping, G.M.C,, trucks, Cadil- lacs, erport shipping, battery, tool and kit room employees, HUGHES NOT OUT FOR PRESIDENCY Declares He Will Not Be 2 Candidate in 1928 U.S, Elections (By Associated Press) New York, N.Y., Dec. 7--Charles Evans Hughes, former Secretary of State, issued a statement today saying he was not a candidate for Republican nomination for Presi- dent of the United States, "I am pot a. candidate in any sense," said Mr. Hughes. "I am keenly disappointed by Mr. Cool- idge's decision, but so far as my own attitude toward the candidacy is concerned, I stand by the state- ment I made last May. I have nothing to add to it." HEADS EXECUTIVE H. P. SCHELL, President of the Children's Aid So- rio County, who will preside at Thursday night's annual meeting of the organization at St, An- drew's Church, It is understood that the Society will insist that Mr, Schell again accept the presi- dency of the' Society for tne coming year, ALD. BRADLEY 13 (NTEGIDED As to Whether He Wi'l Seek Re-election--Dfficu't to Get Men to Run Ald, H, E. Bradley, chairman of the finance committee of the City Council, is not yet ready to state whether he will be a candidate for re-election, but he is emphatic in de- claring that Oshawa's electoral sys- tem needs revision so that, under Council reduction or otherwise, alder- men would be elected for two year terms, with half of the aldermanic bedy' elected annually, "So far as my personal preferences in the matter are concerned," Mr, Bradley pointed out, "I will not be a candidate. I have served for sev eral years and want a rest. But it is so hard to get men who should serve interested in the matter." Mr. Bradley pointed out that Osh- awa had a large number of men who could easily give their time to City Council work, who should, in fact, volunteer to serve. - Efforts are under way now to get several men into the field to take the place of the four aldermen who have definitely decided not to serve. Pro- minent citizens interested in the mat- Ald. Hart's declar- ation of intention as final. It is pointed out that he is destined for the mayor's chair and that next year's Board of Works program requires the service of the man who, in an executive sense, had been so success- ful as that committee's chairman. Changing the term of aldermanic service in Oshawa would require ac- ter refuse to take sembly that 'has, from time to time, granted similar requests from other Ontario cities. TAKES JUMP OF 2,800 FEET IN AUTOMATIC HEINKLE PARACHUTE (Cable Seryice to The Times) By Canadian Press) Berlin, Dec, 7--7To test the mer- its of the Heinkle automatically opening parachute, one-armed Cap- tain Arredondo of the Chilean air force successfully negotiated a par- achute jump from an aeroplane fly- ing at an altitude of 2,800 feet. Captain Arredondo is commission- ed to order parachutes for his goy- ernment. Arrest Made When Quebec Village Is Swept By Fire Two Boarding Houses, Two Stores, Laundry and Three Residences Destroyed ~-- "Despite Disaster, Villagers Turn Out to Dance Last Evening (By Canadian Press) Hull, Que, Dec. 7--Arrested in connection with a fire which swept the village of Paugan Falls yesterday with an estimated damage of $25,000, Joseph Rozg was brought . to Hull jail last night. The charge on which he was taken into custody was not made known. Fire broke out in one of the bedrooms of the Chatillon boarding house and swept through eight buildings before it could be halted. Two boarding houses, two stores, laundry and three residences were destroyed and more than one hundred persons were left homeless. Fifty efployees of a construction company building a dam on the Gatineau River adjoining the village lost all their belongings in the boarding houses. Despite the fire, the village people turned out in full force to attend a dance last night. Those who lost their clothing in the fire were able to attend in borrowed plumage. ciety of Oshawa and £outh Onta- tion by the Ontario Legislative As-|' NOMAN IS VICTIM OF BRUTAL ASSAULT [Oshawa Lady | Found In Unconscious Condition At Thornton's Corners Mrs. Roy Cutts, 168 Simcoe Street South, Attacked By Man Who Stepped from a Motor Car -- Tried to Force Her to Enter Auto-- Struck Her Over Head-- Another Man in Car WAS PICKED UP BY MOTOR BUS Regained Consciousness Af- ter Being Brought to Osh- awa Hospital --Provincial Police Are Searching for Assailants -- Was Going to Meet Husband i ---- Victim of an unsuccessful but bru- tal attack by motor-car abductors, Mrs. Roy Cutts, 168 Simcoe street south, is in the Oshawa General Hospit: suffering from head wounds, shock 1 exposure and her condi- tion is considered very serious. The injured woman was picked up uncon- scious on the Kingston Highway about 10 p.m. last night by the bus operating between Whitby and this city. hospital where, on regaining cons- ciousness, she related the details of the attack, Mrs. Cutts walked out the King- ston Highway in the evening to meet her husband who was motoring in from Whitby, Near Thornton's Cor- ners a large sedan containing two men came up from the east and stop- ped beside her. The men first asked if she would go for a ride, She refused. Then one man, stepping from the car, shorted: *By---- I'll make you!" Mrs, Cutts ran towards the near- est light but the abductor overtook her and hit her over the head with some instrument, probably a flash light, She fell unconscious beside the highway where she was found by the Whitby-Oshawa bus and brought to this city. The matter has been placed in the hands of the Provincial police and arrests may be made soon. Hardly a fortnight ago a high school boy was abducted in this city by drunken. motorists and taken to Toronto where he managed to elude them. So far, despite the boy's des- eription of the culprits and the car in which they drove, no arrests have been made, SEEK BETTER NEWS SERVICE AT GENEVA League Passes a Resolution for Establishment of a Special Wire (Cable Service To The Times By Geneva, Dec, 7.--A resolution looking toward ereations of better facilities for the movement of news despatches concerning the League of Nations was adopted by the League Council today. The resolution calls for a confer- ence of experts from Switzerland, France and Great Britain for the establishment of a direct tele- graph wire from Geneva to Lon- don in order to create the meces- sary facilities for transmission of news to North and South America and the far east. FAILED TO HALT REBEL'S EXECUTION Mexican Officer Fined for Refusing to Obey Injbnction Mexico City, "Dec, 6~For refusing to obey the injunction handed down by a district court to halt the execu- tion of the rebel general: Francisco Bertani, Capt. Rubio has been fined by the « the com, dispatches from Vera Rubio a in command of the gar- rison at Minatitlan temporarily when, on the petition of Bertani's wife an injuncti was granted postponing Bertani's execution. The order was telegraphed to the Minatitlan garri- son. Rubio received the telegram and said he would see that it reached the Federal commander, Gen. Amaya, who was then out of town. Bertani was then executed. Gen. Amaya returned to the garrison ten minutes after Bertani was dead. She was brought to the city' NINETY-YEAR-OLD VICTIM OF ASSAULT NEAR DEATH'S DOOR (By Canadian Press) _ Owen Sand, Ont, Dee. 7 --- ty-year- pry a Y of Sydenham yh ship, who was attacked and rob- bed by two maurauders in his lonely shack, was in a critical condition today. He spent a very bad night as a result of the rough handling he received, and it is fi ia has set in as a a of his exposure. Pro. vincial and city police are search. ing for the robbers who escaped with about twelve dollars, BELIEVED T0 HAVE LOST HIS MEMORY Friends of Missing Insurance Agent Join in the i Search HOPEFUL CLUES Major Osborne Lean Seen Looking for a Boarding House (By Canadian Press) Toronto, Dec, 7--Friends of the missing Major Osborne Lean, Tor- onto insurance broker, who is be- lieved to be suffering from loss of memory, have gone today to Bow- manville to join the Provincial Po- lice and Boy Scouts who are look- ing for the missing war veteran. Yesterday several hopeful clues were found by Richard L, Row- lands, brother-in-law of Major Lean, who visited hotels and boarding houses in the eastern town. Mr, Rowlands learned of several persons who had seen a tall gentleman with a cane on Thursday last enquiring for a boarding house in the town. The same man visited two boarding houses, but was turned away for lack of room. He is believed to have made his way easterly from Bowmanville. DYER AND CLEANER GOT "CLEANED" TO EXTENT OF $1,150 (By Associated Press) Chicago, Ills., Dec, 7--Morris Simon informed a hold-up gang last night that he was manager of the "Co-operative Cleaners and Dy- ers", "Alright", replied the gang leader, "we'll co-operate, Clean him, boys", They escaped with $1, 150, DEATH SUMMONS EX-PRESIDENT OF RAILWAY UNION (By Associated Press) Cleveland, O., Dee. 7--Willlam B. Prenter, former president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engin- eers, died at his home here today. He was 72 years old. JURY AT SHERBROOKE FINDS METZ GUILTY *Sherbrooke, Que., Dec. 6.--James Metz was today found guilty of man- ter in connection with the of Helene Dubois, shot here last New Year's Day, by a jury in the Court of King's Bench. Metz had been charged with mur- der. The jury deliberated all might, having retired at 6 p.m. yesterday. Mr. Justice Archambault, the presi- ding Judge, thanked the jury and dismissed them. The case had stirred up much in- terest in, the district, and the Court House was again crowded this morn- mg. = S e will be p ed at the conclusion of the present term of the court. Metz has still to face a charge of murder in connection with the death of Edouard Valliere, in whose home the shooting occurred. The date of this trial will be announced later. After the verdict was dered the *| step in personally. CHICAGO MAY SEE STREET CAR STRIKE Surface and Elevated E ployees Issue an Ultimatum OVER WAGE DISPUTE Will Walk Out Unless D mands Get Immediate J Action (By Associated Press) Chicago, Ills.,, Dec. T--Imme ate action on wage demands of th Chicago Street Car men or a st of both Surface and Elevated el ployees was the ultimatum unio officials announced today, Twenty thousand men would be affected, "The men have lost patience Bb cause of dilatory tactics employed) to arbitrate and insist on a st ) or an immediate wage increase", said William Quinlan, president of the Street Car Men's Union. Elevated employees are not in volved in the wage dispute, bus have promised tp strike' in sym thy with the surface car men, Mayor Thomsson in Washington) said, ~ "Chicago needn't worrys there will be no strike, If the coms panies and men cannot agree I will But I haven'| abandoned hope of arbitration," [6INSINGSING AWAITING CHAIR Mrs. Snyder and Judd With Charles Doran to Die January 9 (By Associated Press) : Ossining, N.Y., Dec. 7,--Sing Sing's death house population was near record today. Joseph Lefkowitz, east side clothing merchant, sentenced Brooklyn to die for plotting 0 death of Benjamin Goldstein, is twenty-year-old partner, brought th list of persons awaiting death in the electric chair to sixteen, 'Lefkowitz and others have b sentenced to die a week of Jag y 9 but in all except three cases abs peals automatically delay execution Mrs. Ruth Brown Synder, thd only woman in the death house, | Henry Judd Gray, convicted killing the woman's husband Queen's Village, L.I, are the prominent members of the gi little community, They will be cuted the week of January 9. sentences, together with that Charles J, Doran, convicted of er during a holdup in Albany, upheld recently by the Court of peals, the highest tribunal in ¢ State, POLAND WILL Nor § RESIGN HER Anxious Only to End Lit anian Insistence Upon State of War Geneva, Dec. 7--A nial that Poland is prepared jo sign from the League of unless the Council of League succeeds in arranging a sumption of diplomatic el t with Lithuania was given Associated Press by the Polish egation, The report that Poland would § sign her scat in the League re ed Geneva from Berlin sources stated also that Pod would sist on unqualified recognition Polish sovereignty over Vilna. REDUCED TAXES IN NEXT FEDERAL BUDGET FOR (By Capadian Press) Ottawa, Dec. 7.--With months of the Aa EL BARE NE A) 1 [ HUN oh 4 : : accused was returned to the local jail, where he has been confined since January 1, 1927, f