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| PAGE TWELVE [EASTERN ONTARIO NEWS | LIGHTNING KILLS CATTLE A peculiar freak of lMghtning took place at Warsaw during a re- cent electric storm. Three head of cattle, the property of Tracey Bell, which were in a shed, were struck and killed, but little damage was done to the building. FRONTENAC BASEBALL LEAGUE A meeting of the Frontenac County Baseball League has been called for April 19. Sydenham, fnverary, Elginburg and Cataraqul, the teams which formed the league last year, are keen on getting Into action again, and there is also a possibility that Verona will be back in the league. HAS FRACTURED SKULL Alonzo Wright, a Horton Town- ship farmer, is in Renfrew Hospi- tal suffering from a fractured skull and severe bruises, recelved when a tree he was felling struck him. It was Wright's third aceldent in two years, he having been severely kicked hy horses, and another time, in falling from a wagon, a shoulder and several ribs were broken. RAISE MAGISTRATE'S SALARY The Executive Committee of the Belleville City Council] has recom- mended to the Council that the sal- ary of Magistrate W. C. Mikel be $2,000, the same to be in effect from Jan. 1. The recommendation of the Police Commissioners for an increase in salary for the Chief Constable, sergeant and constables was also granted by the executive. PETERBORO' BOY SUCCUMBS John B. Gauld, who was shot on Saturday afternoon when a gun ear. ried by Philip Marrocco went off, died in Nicholls Hospital, Peter. boro', Sunday night. During Sat- urday night and early Sunday a faint hope was held out for the boy's recovery, but in the afternoon he commenced to sink. John was horn in Mitchell, Ont, in 1913, three weeks after the family arriv- ed from Scotland, OIVIO MESSENGER DIES John Ballantyne, Kingston eivie messenger, died in hospital there yesterday morning after five days' illness of pneumonia. Deceased was horn in Belfast, Ireland, 71 years ago, and was in the constabulary there in his early life, He came to Kingston 42 years ago, and after serving as turnkey at the couty jail he joined the Kingston Police Foree and was a valued member of the force until 1902, when he was appointed city messennger and caretaker of the City Hall, STEALS CHURCH COLLECTION A sneak thief entered the home of Mr, Mat Sisson, treasurer of St, Paul's Anglican Church in Lindsay on Sunday and stole $140, the Eas. ter collection, Mr, Sisson had tak- en home the money from morning services for safe keeping. $300 in another bag was in the same desk but was overlooked by the thief. Chief Lawler was notified at 11 o'clock Monday morning, but on account of the storm no foot prints were discernible. The emtry was made through the window just off the verandah. Many houses have been broken into in Lindsay lately though not such a large sum of money has been stolen, SEND MAN TO REFORMATORY Diamond King, Bancroft, appear- ed before Magistrate O'Rourke in the Trenton Police Court yester- day charged with seduction of his 18-year-old stepdaughter, He was found guilty and sentenced to the Ontario Reformatory for two years less one day. The evidence showed that King had committed the of- fense in July of 1927, after his wife, who had been living with him for several months, had left him. The accused left Trenton with this girl and lived in several towns in Ontario and Western Canada. The girl, charged with vagrancy, was let out on suspended sentence and put under the supervision of Mrs. Gainsforte, the supervisor of the mission at Trenton. THREAENED UNCLE For writing threatening letters to his uncle, Charles Vancott, farm- er in the Township of Sidney, Os- car Pierce, a well-known young man of Trenton, was found guilty and sentenced to six months and not more. than one year in Guelph Reformatory by Magistrate O'- Rourke, The investigation was carried on by Chief Bain of Tren- ton and Sergt, Clarke of the Pro- vincial Police. The first letter, of which there were three, was writ- ten on Feb, 1, The letter demand- ed $1,000 and the denominations in which it was to be paid were set forth, For failure to comply with the request the writer intimated that all the buildings on the farm would be burned, The second and third letters were practically the same. When the young man was apprehended he wrote out a state- ment. setting forth that he was in need of funds and that he wrote the letters only from that need, know- ing his uncle had plenty of money. The Magistrate stated when pass- ing sentence that employers should pay reasonable wages and so keep their employees in a contented frame of mind, STARTING A FARM? Brantford, April 8.--Thieves re- cently visited Neil Young, farmer, who resides north of Burford, and robbed him of 165 chicks just a few days out of the brooder, The theft was not reported as soon as discovered, and the auto thieves got a long start, The chicks were part of a big hatch being prepared for the fall market, A -------- EO TE WW 3 a a a te aa a See Se a a ee a The Carew Lumber Co., Limited. 74 Athol Street West LUMBER MERCHANTS Estimates gladly given Requirements promptly filled Phones 12 and 1111 sforfprfesforiorfosorforfosiorforiosioniorfordonlonfooriorforforiefordo dod Buide d, PN) Lobel. Lote, Cl Re tete test. Cala a WATEROUS-MEEK LTD. 20d, 2.0, v ky CEMENT LIME PARISTONE TE TE TT NEE TE TR RR "Everything from Foundation to Roof" DOORS INSULEX ROOFING | BN i J J Sh J a J ee a Behn WATEROUS-MEER LTD. Pw) Cs PIII I) 2 CO THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, APRIL 10. 1928 BRITAIN'S RUBBER OVE REGARDED AS AMERICAN VICTORY U. S. Looks Upon Restric- tion Scheme Abandon ment With Favor WARNING IS GIVEN -- Washington Officials Say Buying Fools Still Necessary I -- Washington, April ¢ -- Abandon- ment of Great Britain's rubber re- striction scheme, which brought a threat of world monopoly and the fear that prices of automobile tires and other rubber products would soar to unprecedented levels, was in- terpreted here by government offi- cials as a partial American victory-- with the warning that legislation to permit American buying pools is still necessary. Dr. Julius Klein, head of the Com- merce Department's burcau of foreign and domestic commerce said in dis- cussing removal of the British plan that "the British decision does not in she least modify the necessity for the hiasage of laws such as the Newton Bill--designed to permit American buyers to pool together without fear of anti-trust laws. "This type of legislation," Klein explained, "is aimed to protect Ame- rican consumers of many other mono- poly controlled commodities aside from rubber, such as potash, sisail and nitrates, "The legislation would also be help- ful in connection with the possibility of any other restrictive measures con- cerning crude rubber which may de- velop in the future." He said that if the British decision represents "a complete and bona fide removal of all restrictions and artifi- cial limitations on crude rubber ex- ports, it marks one more gratifying step away from uneconomic controls of commerce associated with war- time necessities and the post-war pe- riod of depression." Great Britain's rubber restriction threat caused two cabinet officers -- Secretary of Commerce Hoover and Secretary of Agriculture Jardine--to urge the House Judiciary Committee in January to enact a bill permitting American buying pools to operate without fear of prosecution under anti-trust laws, as a means to com- bat foreign monopolies, Hoover at that time stressed the seriousness of the rubber situation with a warning that the world was dangerously near a shortage hecause of production restriction in British- controlled territory. Viewed as Victory Representative Newton, Minnesota, Republican, and author of the bill to permit American buying pools, viewed the British announcement as a vic- tory for those who have sponsored the measure, which comes up for consideration tomorrow, CMIt is a vindication of our posi- tion," he said, and pointed out that the announcement by Premier Bald- win that the restriction scheme would be dropped will have no affect on plans to push the proposed legisla- tion through. Newton said the "weapon" provid- cd by such legislation to fight mono- polies would be needed anyhow and that the British decision -may be merely a tactical manoeuyer, He ex- pects the House to pass his measure, "There is no question," Newton said, "but that investigation by Commerce Department, followed by hearings before our committee and the committee report together with the co-operation of the various rub- ber consuming trades all have had a great deal to do first, with driving down the price of rubber and second, with the final removal of restric- tions." Governmient experts told the Unit- ed Press that automobile tires prob- ably would not be much cheaper as a result of the British action. Crude rubber is now priced at approximate- ly 27 cents per pound, which appar- ently is accepted by the trade as a fair price, they said, the BOISTEROUS CELEBRATION COSTS TORONTO MEN $300 Hamilton, April 9.--A boisterous celebration by George and B. Wil- liamson of Toronto on Friday cost them $150 each in Police Court this morning. Magistrate Jelfs fined each of the two men $100 for B.L. C.A., and another $50 each for dis- orderly conduct on a Canadian Na- tional train from Toronto. George Williamson also was charged with smashing the windows in a jitney owned by E. H. Burgess, but has agreed to make good that damage. Telephone 262 {4 Lines to Central) for COAL "Jeddo" The Best in America COKE "Solvay" We are Sole Agen GMC. ts WOOD Dixon Coal Co. Helen of the Old House BELL WRIGHT. CHAPTER XXViI JAKE VODELL'S MISTAKE Since that night of the tragedy Mclver had struggled to grasp the hidden meaning of the strange series of incidents. But the more he tried to understand, the wore he was confused and troubled, Nor had he been able, strong-willed as he was to shake off the feeling that he was in the midst of unseen forces--that about him mysterious influences were moving steadlly to | some fixed and certain end. In constant touch, through hia agents, with the strike situation, he had watched the swiftly forming sentiment of the public. He knew that the turning point of the iu- dustrial war was near, He did not deceive himself, He knew Jake Vodell's power. He knew the tem- per of the strikéws. He saw clearly that if the assassin who killed Cap- tain Charlie was not speedily dis- covered the community would suf fer under a reign of terror such as the people had never conceived. And, what was of more vital im- portance to McIver, perhaps, if the truth was not soon revealed, Jake Vodell's charges that the murder was inspired by Meclyver *"'msell would become, in the minds of many, an established fact, With the full realization of all this would result to the community and to himself if the identity , of the murderer was not soon established, Melver was certain in his own mind that he alone knew the guilty man, To reveal what he believed to be the truth of the tragedy would be to save the community and him- self--and to lose, for all time, the woman he loved, Meclver did not know that through the tragedy Helen was already lost to him, In hig extremity the factory owns er had come at last to the man who was sald to wield such a powerful influence over the minds of the people. He had never before seen the interior of that hut on the cliff nor met the man who for so many years had been confined there. Standing just outside the door, he tooked curiously about the room with the unconscious insolence of his strength, The man in the wheel chair did not speak. When Billy looked at him he signaled his wishes in their silent language, and, watching hls visitor, waited, For a long moment McIver gazed at the old basket maker as If esti mating his peculiar strength, then he said with an unintentional touch of contempt in his heavy voice, "So you are the Interpreter." "And you," returned the man .in the wheel chair, gently, "are Mec- {ver." Mclver was startled, "How dld you know my name?" "Is Meclyer's name a secret also?" came the strange reply. Mclver's cyes flashed with a light that those who sat opposits: bim in the game of business had often seen. With perfect self-con- trol he said, coolly, *I have been told often that I should come to see you but--" he paused and again looked curiously about the room, The Interpreter, smiling, caught up the unfinished sentence. "But you do not see how an old, poverty- stricken and crippled maker of bas- kets can be of any use to you." Mclver spoke as one measuring his words. 'They tell me you help people who are in trouble." "Are you then in trouble?' ask- ed the Interpreter, kindly, The other did not answer, and the man in the wheel chair continu- ed, still kindly, "What trouble can the great and powerful Mclver have? You have never been hungry --you have never felt the cold-- you have no children to starve--no son to be killed." "I suppose you hold me persop- ally responsible for the strike anid tor all the hardships that the strik- ers have brought upon themselves and their families?" sald Mclver, "You fellows who teach this broth- erhood-of-man rot and pever have more than one meal ahead your selves always blame men like m2 for all the suffering in the world." The Interpreter replied with a dignity that impressed evea Me- Iver. "Who am I that I shouid as- sume to blame any one? Who are you, sir, that assume the power implied by either your acceptance or your denial of the responsibil- ity? You are only a part of the whole, as I am a part. You, in your life place, are mo ess u crea- ture of circumstances--an accident --than I, here in my wheel chair-- than Jake Vodell. We are all-- you and I, Jake Vodell, Adam Ward, Peter Martin, Sam Whaley --we are all but parts of the great oneness of life. The want, ths wmigery, the suffering, the unhappi- pess of humanity is of that unity no less than fis the prosperity, peace and happiness of the people. Before we can hope to bring order out of this industrial chaos we must recognize our mutual depep- dence upon the whole and acknow- ledge the equality of our guilt in the wretched conditions that now exist." As the Interpreter spoke, James Mciver again felt the movement of those unseen forces that were about him. His presence im that little hut on .he cliff seemed, now, a part of some plan that was not of his making. He was awed by the sudden conviction that he had aot come to the Interpreter of his own wolition, but had been led by something beyond his understang- ing. "Why should your fellow work- men not hate you, sir?" continucd the old basket maker. "Yon hold yourself apart, superior, of a class distinet and separate. Your creed of class is intolerance. Your very business policy is a declaration of class war. Your boast that you can live without the werki=< %eo= deny the mutual dependence of em- ployer and employee with ~afety to yourself than Samson of old could pull down the pillars of the temple without being himself buried in the ruins." By an effort of will Meclver strove to throw off the feeling that him. He spoke as one termined to assert himself. "We cannot Iecagutie the rights of Jake odell and his lawless followers to dictate to us in our business. It would mean ruin, mot only of our industries, but of our govera- ment." "Exactly so," agreed the Inter- preter. "And yet, sir, you 'claim for yourself the right to live by the same spirit of imperialism that animates Vodell. You make the identical class distinction that he makes. You appeal to the same class intolerance and hatred. You and Jake Vodell have together brought about this Industrial war in Milleburgh. The community ft- self--Ilabor unions and business men alike--is responsible for tolerating the imperialism that you and this allen agitator, in op- position to wach other, advocate. The community is paying the price." The factory owner flushed. "Of course you would say these things to Jake Vodell." "I do," returned the Interpreter, gently, "Oh, you are in touch with him then?" "He comes here sometimes He is coming this afternocu---at 4 o'- clock, Will you not stay ana mee: him, Mr, McIver?" McIver hesitated. He decided to ignore the Invitation, With more respect in his manner than he had so far shown, he sald, courteously, "May I ask why Jake Vadell comes to you?" The Interpreter replied, sadly, a: one who accepts the fact of his fail ure, "For the same reason that Me: Iver came," (To be continu a4.) -------- WONDERFUL WORK BY UNKNOWN MEN Secrets of Hidden Villages Found in English Coun- ties London--The fact that England is in for a revival of old English handicrafts becomes increasingly evident, Since the publication of two articles on hand-made furni- ture and weaving I have received many letters from people interested in handicrafts throughout the country, writes Iris N. Carpenter, in the London Daily Express. In addition to the forty weavers distributed in various parts of Great Britain, there are Dblack- smiths, basketmakers, pottery workers, and Jace makers. In fact, scarcely a district in the length and breadth of the land is without some craftsman or crafts- woman striving to evolve new ideas on the old traditions. In some districts there are whole groups of workers. At Dies, In Norfolk, for instance, P. 8. Beales has set up a tiny workshop for weaving and the making of orlg- inal articles in leather. Weaving was at one time the staple industry of this part of Nor- folk. Then there {is the Newdizate (Surrey) School of Woodearving, under the patronage of Mrs, Jan- son, of Newdigate Place. Some years before the war the village youths were found to have time hanging too heavily on their hands, and so Mrs. Janson, as lady of the manor, decided to interest them in the almost lost art of woodcarving. She turned her stables into a workshop, bought tools and wood, and set her proteges to work un- der the guidance of an expert. The men showed astonishing aptitude and quickly began to produce work of note. A piece of carving, now in the parish church, done by Mrs. Janson's chicken boy, will probably go down in history as the finest piece of work of its kind produec- ed in the century. Gloucestershire seems to be pro- ducing more craftsmen and more work of interest than any other county, probably because those great pioneers of arts and crafts revivals, William Morris and Ern- est Gimson, both sought inspira- tion and worked there. There fis a certain enchanted country among the Gotswold Hills where almost every cottage will yield something of historical value, something for which a collector would give a tiny fortune. Most interesting in my judgment of all the craftsmen in the county are three blacksmiths: A. E. Buck- nall, who was a simple village smith until Ernest Gimson found him, and taught him to combine grace of outline and delicacy of form with the sterling qualities of his workmanship, and Thornton and Downer, as they are univers- ally called. Bucknall lives in a fold of "the hills behind Chalford and the Golden Valley; Thornton and Downer are at Broadway. They have a tiny workshop in the pic- turesque main street, and produce, by some means unknown to anyone save themselves, iron work with a peculiar and beautiful lustre. Be- cause it is unigue and because they make only what they will and when they will, their work has al- ple is madness. You can no mors | ready achieved am enviable degree live without them than they can live without you. You o3R No MOTs of fame among people of discern- ment. ASKS INDICTMENT ON CHARGE FIRST DEGREE MURDER U. S. Attorney Enters Strong Appeal--Woman Died in Doctor's Office Washington, April 10--The Fed- eral Grand Jury now sitting here will be asked by Leo A. Rover, acting United States Attorney, to return a first degree murder indiet- ment against Louis W. Hoffman, physiotherapist, growing out of the case of Miss Eleanor Lehman, who recently died while under treat- ment in his office. Hoffman was at liberty on bond under a amnslaughter chargé when Miss Dolores Monroe, who accom- panied Miss Lehman to his office, charged that he performed an fil- legal operation on the young wom- an, that Miss Lehman was over- come with convulsions, and that Hocman, becoming frightened, broke her neck in order to conceal the operation in case of an investi- station. Hoffman's bondsmen were immediately ordered to surrender him, and Lhe is now in jail, Mr. Rover explained that the Federal Attorney's jury was dis- satisfied with the verdict of the coroner in the Lehman case, saying the autopsy had revealed that an operation had been performed. The coroner's jury had accepted the pre- vious statement of Miss Monroe that her friend had gone to Hoff- man's office to be treated for a se- vere headache, and that her neck had been broken in the course of the treatment, Dr. A. MacDonald, who perform- ed the autopsy on Miss Lehman's body, March 4, sald the examina- tion disclosed that she was in a delicate eondition but that this did not constitute a contributing cause of death and consequently was not disclosed at the coroner's inqeust. According to the official report of the autopsy, Miss Lehman came to her death through a broken neck, Claims She was Threatenea Miss Monroe also charged today that the night of the occurrence Hoffman threatened her, declaring she would incur a ten-year sentence in the penitentiary as an acces. sory and demanding that she pre- pare a written statement uphold- ing his story that Miss Lehman died from the effects of a drug and broken neck. She told the district attorney's offi~e that the day after the inquest Hoffman again came to her with the same threat. Fear- ing she might he placed under ar- rest and desiring to protect the dead girl from publicity, Miss Mon- Fe sald she hurriedly left the city. 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