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The Oshawa Daily Times 7Ae Oshawa Daily Daily Retoriier OES SEER i OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1928 10 Cents a Week; 2 Cents a Copy. TEN PAGES FRENCHMEN ON 5,600 MILE ATLANTIC FLIGHT 291 New Students SEATTLESTAR MAY BE ONLY GIRL ENTRY Olive Gatterdam Only One Who Has Definitely Entered TO RACE TOMORROW Have Until Starting Time to Make Up Their Minds (By Canadian Press) Toronto, Sept. 4--O0live Gatter- dam, 16-year-old Seattle girl who finished second in the 10 mile wo- men's race last Wednesday will, it seems, be the only feminine na- tator to swim in the third Wrig- ley marathon grind tomorrow, None of the others have yet in. dicated that they will enter the open swim but they are not of- ficially asked to make up their minds before starting time tomor- TOW, LIGHT DOCKET IN GOURT TODAY John Payne Takes 14 Days Instead of $20 Fine The docket in in police court this morning was he cially light for af- ter a holiday, more serious offences were missing from the list, and infractions against the Liquor Control Act were in the majority, It so happened that all these were first offenders and let off with the minimum $20 and costs, John Payne, charged with being intoxicated in a public place on Sep- tember 2, was fined $20 and costs for alternative sen- He took the offence or an tence of 14 days in jail, the latter. Andy Mishunk, arraigned on a similar charge, those to plead not guilty and was remanded on $200 bail until Tuesday, September 11, Paul Opichany, charged in police court before Magistrate Hind, with being intoxicated was assessed $20 and costs with an alternative sen- tence of 14 days. A charge of having liquor in his possession other than the amount allowed on an individual permit was laid against Prokop Backuk. The case, which is being handled by D. A. J. Swanson for the defendant, was adjourned until Tuesday, Sept. i. Harold McCleggan, 6 Camden street, Toronto, who is alleged to have driven a car bearing license 85-785 while intoxicated was given a definite sentence of 14 days in the county jail when he pleaded guilty to the offence. McCleggan is an em- loyee of W. J. Gage and Company, rh He will also pay the costs oF seve an additional two weeks in ai ' In passing serkepce, His Worship took into consideration the youth of the defendant, who it was learned was only 19. William" Terry, charged with per- jury, will again appear to answer the charge laid against him on Thursday September 6. In the mean- time he will remain in custody. Muriel Clement, charged with creating a public disturbance, was further remanded until September! 6 at two o'clock in the afternoon. NAMES OF DONORS OMITTED In the list of donors to the Osh- awa Fair, which is published in the Prize List of the South Ontario Agricultural Society Fall Fair, the Oriental Textile and the name of Fred Hatch were ommitted. The Oriental Textile donated $50.00, while Fred Hatch of Whitby do- pated $10.00. Enrollment in City Public Schools Today Sets Record of 3,237 NORTHERN TROOPS AND COMMANDER GO OVER TO NATIONALISTS (Cable Service to The Times by Canadian Press) Shanghai, Sept. 4.--A Japanese report from Nationalist sources to- day sald that the Northern troops in Tsing Tao, Shantung Province, and their local commander had gone over to the Nationalists, 600 DEAD IN JAPANESE FLOODS Continued Rains Cause Havoc--100 Missing-- 6,000 Homeless (Cable Service To The Times By Canadian Press) Tokyo, Sept. 4.--Despstches from Seoul, the capitol of Korea, say that continued rains in the northeastern section of that coun- try are increasing the flood in four prefectures there. Authoritative estimates place the dead at nearly 600, the missing at 100 and the homeless at 6,000 with more than 1,000 homes destroyed, U, 8, BUSINESS IS BEHIND DOMINION Comparisons Show Cana- dian Conditions Well Ahead for Year Ottawa, Sept. 4. -- Comparisons between business conditions in the United States and Canada contin- ue to show an advantage on the side of the Dominion, according to official information available here. There have been some re- cent signs of increasing activity in the American Republic, and pre- dictions are now heing made that the second half of the year in that country will give better re- sults than the first half. Cana- da, nevertheless, still stands in decidedly better shape than the United States, the prosperity of the early months of the year being now exceeded in many lines. One of the fields in which com. parison is being made is that ot railway traffic where carloadingh are available to the end of the third week in August. Accord- ing to these figures, which are for the week endinz August 18 In both countries, Canadian traffic was moving on a higher level than in the corresnonding week last' year, while United States traffic was on a lower relative level. This comparison repre- sents the general trend of the year. Since January there have been only four weeks in which Canodian traffic has been lower than a year earlier, while in the United States it has been almost steadily below last year. United States' returns have, however. been making a better showing of Jate, and during the last six weeks have {Indicated an Improvement over a year ago. General Trepd returns for the week ending August 18 gave a movement of 68.721 carloads as compared with 63.288 in the eor- responding week of 1927. The cumulative figure un to August 18 this year was 2.136.000 carloads, as compared with 2,005,000 last year. These fizures reflect up-to-date conditions and also the general trend during the year. The Canadian 15 U. S. Planes Arrive in Toronto for C.N, E. Display (By Toronto, Sept. 4. -- Swooping gracefully from the skies, a squadron of fifteen aeroplanes from Selfridge Field, Detroit, made a perfect landing at Lea- side Aerodrome today after flying from Detroit to take part in the Canadian Press) Canadian National Exhibition. Favored with perfect , flying weather the tiers, compo. g the 112th -Squadron of the Ohio Na- tional Guard, made good time on their trip and before reaching the field flew over the city in perfeet formation. © Total of 800 Will Likely Be Reached at Collegiate .In- stitute -- Will Get Down to Systematic Training as Soon as Possible GREAT INCREASE IS RECORDED Attendance Today of 3,237 Will No Doubt Be Greatly Swelled During the Next Week or Two -- Schools Will Be All Filled With the advent of the School sea- son and Fall Oshawa's younger set again take up their positions behind desks in the many institutions pro- vided for their use in the city, Wind- ing up the two months' holiday which went only too fast for most young- sters Labor day has come and gone, and the realization that education is a necessity dawns upon those who have taken life easy for the short period after the June examinations and the first of September, Towards the end of August the holidays begin to hang heavy on the young people, and mothers are rather pleased to see their young oncs again taking up the course of study under the tuition of a competent staff of teachers, for it's a hara thing to keep track of children nowadays when there are so many other things to think about, Oshawa's public schools are filled to capacity with youngsters eager to get accustomed to their new sur- roundings in other classes than that which they left in June, In the eight public institutions of learning in Oshawa there are enrolled 3,237 children, which figure will probably be swelled considerably as the at- tractions of the current week or two are passed over. Some of the schol- ars who will begin classes within the next month are just now returning from summer cottages, or camping trips, while others are spending a few days in Toronto attending the Canadian National Exhibition, Al- though this practice of not turning up at school on the first day is to be discouraged theie are always a few who are a little late in enrolling. Already this term, which began only this morning, there is an in- crease of 150 pupils more than en- rolled in the public schools here last year. By schools, the figures are, Cedardale, 272; King Street, 347; Ritson Road, 412; Mary § Street, 344; North Simcoe Street, Albert Street, 250; Simcoe a» "472; and Centre Street, 745 ; There have been made in the staffs of the different schools a number of changes. Miss K. MacDonald has been placed on the staff of Centre Street School, while Miss Harston and Miss M. Morison have heen added to the Albert Street School staff. Miss A. Barrowclough is now teaching at Simcoe Street South school, as is also Miss Mitchell. Although conditions are a little crowded in the schools of the city, when the addition to Ritson Road School is completed they will be sat- isfactory. Two hundred and pinety-one pupils enrolled at the Oshawa Collegiate Institute Yor first year work in aca- demical training. These classes met at the school at the regular time this morning where they were assig to classes and told the books they would require. The remainder of the students, including pupils who will take up second, third, fourth and|P fifth year work at the collegiate met at two o'clock and received the same instructions. Altogether there are expected to be an enrollment of 800 at the col- legiate. Principal A. E. O'Neill will get down to systematic training as soon as conditions warrant doing so. WOMAN CONVICTED OF GRAND LARCENY GETS THIRTY DAYS|%: (By Associated Press) Albany, N.Y. Sept. 4.--Mrs. Flor- ence E. S. Knapp, former Secretary of State, of New York, convicted of grand larceny, first degree, in con- nestion with her administration of state census funds, today was senten- ced to serve thirty days in the Al- bany coumfy penitentiary. Mrs. Knapp was taken to jail while her attorneys fought for a cer- tificate of reasonable doubt which would automatically act as a stay of execution. Her sentence was the climax of two sensational trials early this year. The first time the jury disagreed, but the second resulted in a conyiction, ned | ed it on to the Toronto police. Parkwood Horses Win Many Prizes Seven Oaks and My De- light, owned and exhibited by R. 8. McLaughlin at the Canadian National Exhibi- tion, were both most suc- cessful in the classes In which they were entered. A first prize for lightweight novice hunters and another first for lightweights suit- able for hunters were both won by Seven Oaks, while he also won a fourth in the model hunters class. A championship, two firsts and a second were won by My Delight, entered in the saddle classes, while anoth- er of Mr. McLaughlin's horses, the Duke of Con- naught also made, a cred- {table showing. we at Collegiate! LADY THORNTON LAUNCHES STEAMER Third of Five Vessels Built for Canadian National Steamship Lines (Cable Service to The Times by n Press Liverpool, Eng. Sept. 4--Another link strengthening trade between Canada a West Indies was for- ed today when the steamer "Lady Brake" of 6900 tons for passengers and cargo, was launched from the Cammell Laird shipyards with Lady Thornton, wife of the president of the Canadian National Railways, per- forming the ceremony. The Ly is the third of five ves- sels being built for the Canadian Na- tional Steamship Lines to ply be- tween Halifax and Montreal and West Indies ports, Following a is Hurled from Car and Picked Up in Unconscious Condition -- Second Auto Also Enters Ditch -- In. vestigation Shows Anoth- er Car Responsible and Se- . gure Number -- Two Are Taken Ito Custody By Toronto Police But Are Released (By Staff Peter) Whitby, Sept. 4--Edwin Rowe, 204 King street, Oshawa, was re- moved to the Oshawa General Hos- pital early yesterday morning suffer- ing from injuries which he received in a peculiar motor accident which occurred on the Kingston highway midway between here and Pickering. Rowe was returning from Toront shortly after 1 o'clock in a Portia sedan, alleged to be the property of the Johnson taxi company, and dri- ven by a young man named Kelly, It is not known how the accident occurred but after travelling three miles out of Pickering the taxi after passing another car carcened down the highway finally turning 2 co lete somersault into the ditch at the eft hand side of the road. Rowe apparently was thrown out of the car when it upset and w, picked up unconscious a few ife cast of the scene of the accide Kelly escaped uninjured also a third man who was riding in the taxi. Assistance was rendered by passing torists including Dr. Ferrier of bia who rendered first aid and had the injured man removed to the Oshawa hospital. One hundred yards to the west a second machine had dropped into the ditch on the ri ght hand side almost simultaneously with the taxi, Its occupants were unscathed, however, and beyond damage to the left fen- der the car was not smashed. Working on the assumption that both accidents had been caused by a third car, traveling towards Toronto, witnesses of the accident gave its number to Chief Gunson who flash: Shier and Sergt Oxland of West Dun- das station were standing at the police. station door when the Jl The constables immediate] took up the chase but the quarry had gained a considerable start and it was not until the wanted machine reached Louisa and York streets that it was oyertaken. The driver, Tod Herbold, of Lea- vittsburg, Ohio, and his companion, Virigil Preston, Warren lage, Ohio, were placed in custody and turned over to the local police yes- terday. They were able to prove that they had do with the jccident guilty to a charge of REI Embargo on Milk, Cream from Montreal Will Be Removed whatever to ut pleaded liquor paying (By Associated Press) St. Alban's, Vermont, Sept. 4. -- The embargo in milk and cream from Montreal which has been in effect since April, 1927, will be lifted to- morrow, customs authorities here were inforined today. The embargo grew out of the epidemic of typhoid fever. Its removal will permit a pein, og Io supply of milk to be J shipped to Bost: Oshawa Man in Hospital Crash West of Whitby, Two Arrests * Edwin Rowe, 20%; King St, Establishes New World's Record for Hydroplaning (By Associated Press) ' Detroit, Mich, Sept. 4-- Gar Wood, Detroit speed boat wizard, drove his hydroplane Miss America Seventh to a new world's record this morn- ing when he averaged 92.834 miles an hour in the trials for one mile and the champion- ship of North America. The old record was 80.567 which Wood made in his America Fifth Jwo years ago. . GIVEN 24 HOURS T0 CLEAN UP CITY Philadelphia's Mayor Issues Order After Rum Ring "High Court" Revealed Philadelphia, Sept. 3.--Mayor t \itarey A. Mackey today ordered the police department to 'clean-up' Philadelphia within 24 hours. Ev- Slory gambling house, every resort that is the gathering place of gun- men and racketeers, every speak- easy---according to the mayor there are 13,000 of them--must be shut up tightly. This order came within 24 hours of District Attorney John Monog> han's declaration that the city of- ficers were pot co-operating in the Grand Jury of gang murders and activities of the "ten million dol- lar alcohol ring." One of the astonishing revela- tions by District Attorney Monog- han is that the alcohol ring main- tained a "high court" in this city to deal out its peculiar form of justice in the underworld. Senten- ces ran from assassination to terms in prison the latter, being inflict- ed through the medium of "fram- ing" offenders' In the "court of justice" set up by the bootleggers for the gangs- ters employed by them, all dis- putes are settled by the "Big Boss," the District Attorney said. Information has been obtained for the Grand Jury investigators that the disputes carried before the "Big Boss" are conducted with due form and decorum. [If two or more bootleggers disagree about some- thing they go with their lawyers and witnesses before "the big' boss," and his decision is final. In- cidentally, "the big boss" is not a lawyer. HON. PHILLIPPE ROY OFFICIAL REPORTER (Cable Sgrice to Tho Times by Canadian Press Geneva, Sept. Lai Phillip- pe Roy, first Canadian minister to France, was appointed official reporter on the question of settle- ment of Bulgarian vefugees and Bulgarian stabilizations loan, at today's session of the League of Nations assembly. lant and Rene Lefebvre, Accompanied at Last Min- ute By Armand Lotti, Their Flight Backer WILL ATTEMPT TO WIN PRIZE Prize Offered for First Non. stop Flight from Paris to Rio de Janeiro--Weather Conditions Unsettled (Cable Service to The Times by anadian Press) Paris, Sept. 4. -- Flying Ser- geants, Jean Assolant and Rene Lefebvre, who took off from Le Bourget Field this morning on a trans-oceanic flight were sighted at 9.35 a.m. by a fishing boat in latitude 34.50 north and longitude 1.47 west, = They were heading westward, Their destination shrouded in mystery, three Frenchmen sped toward the southwest today in a bright yellow monoplane. "Can- ary Bird" on a trans-Atlantic flight. Whether their desination was New York or South America remained to be seen, : After a succession of postpone- ments and false starts due to the more or less volatile temperaments of her pilots, Flying Sergeants Jean Assolant and Rene Lefebvre of the French army, hopped off this morning. Armand Lotti, their hacker, slipped into the plans at the last minute and ac- companied them, Commandant Weiss, the air- men's superior officer said they were going to the Azores and if the weather was favorable they would head for Halifax. Chief Pilot, Paillard, of the Bernard Company, which built the plane, announced after the take off that the flyers hecause of adverse winds over the Atlantic were go- {ag over a course of 5,600 miles to Rio de Janiero. They would go, he said, by way of Dakar, Senegal and Pernambuco, Brazil, in an attempt to carry off the prize of- fered for the first non-stop flight from Paris to Rio de Janiero, RECOVERED VICTIMS FROM PARALYSIS GIVE BLOOD TO AID OTHERS (By Canadian Press) Winnipeg, Man., Sept. 4.--Enlisted in the fight against the spread of infantile paralysis which has tak- en a death toll of 11 in Winnipeg, 17 recovered victims of the dread disease have volunteered to give a few ounces of their blood for the making of serum which it is believed will halt the infection. DIES BENEATH CAR Stratford, Sept. 2. -- Thomas Cur- tin, aged 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jobn Curtin, Kennicott, was found dead beneath an upturned car on the Stratford-Mitchell Highway early Sunday morning. The cause of the accident may never be known. A passing motorist discovered the badly wrecked car in the ditch near Seebach's Hill and upon investigat- ing found the lifeless body of the young man crumpled in the front seat beneath the splintered steering wheel. WAS WELL, KNOWN HERE Death came suddenly at Welles- ley Hospital in Toronto om Sun- day to Arthur Blight of 121 Hills. dale Avenue west, Toronto. The many friends in Oshawa of Mr. Blight will remember that his son was killed at Oshawa-ontthe-Lake almost exactly two years ago in a crane accident while work was un- der way on Oshawa Harbour. The funeral service was held this af- ternoon at 2.30 o'clock at Btoor Street United Church, interment Park Lawn Cemetery. ONE KILLED, FIVE INJURED Paris, Ont., Sept. 2. -- A head-on collision occurred three miles east of Paris on No. 2 Highway at six o*- clock this morning resulting in one man being killed and five men and women being hurried to Willet Hos- pital, Coroner Logie has ordered an fin- quest to be held Monday morning at 19 o'clock. Take Off at Le Bourget in Attempt to Reach Rio de Janiero, S. A. Flying Sergeants Jean Ato] PASS LAW TO CHECK MENTAL MALADIES FROM SPREADING (Cable Service to The Times by Canadian Press) Geneva, Sept. 4.--Swiss news- papers announcel today that the Lausanne Canton Council had vot- ed a law authorizing the operation on hopelessly insane to prevent them from having children. The idea is to arrest the spread of mental maladies, MANY KILLED IN INDIA FIGHTING 149 Dead, 1,345 Injured, "Due to Communal Rioting (Cable Service To The Times By Canadian Press) Calcutta, India, Sept, 4 --It had heen established that 11 were kill- ed and 34 injured in fighting Sun day at Kharapur. Three were in- jured, one of them fatally when the police fired on the gathering of Hidoos and Moslems, while four Mohammedans were found murder- ed when some houses nearby were raided, It has been announced at Simla by the Indian Legislative Assem- bly that 149 personss have heen killed and 1,845 injured in com- dg 11 rioting in India since July ' DIES FROM INJURIES IN AUTO CRASH (By Canadian Press) Bt. Catharines, Ont,, Sept, 4.-- George Kuplman, Cleveland, is dead here from injuries received yesterday at Beamsville when his car collided with an automebile driven hy Kenneth Ashbaugh, of Knoxville, Pa. Robert Kupliman, brother of the victim, was slightly injured, SIR THOMAS LIPTON WILL TRY TO LIFT THE AMERICA'S CUP (By Associated Press) London, Sept. 4.--8ir Thomas Lipton will make a try for the American cup in 1929, he said to- day, before starting for South- ampton from where he will sail for New York. "It is still my ambi- tion to bring that cup back," he sald. LOST PURSE AND $45. Living alone at present with her five children, an unfortunate stroke of luck befell Mrs. Wm. Buck of Wilson road, phone 1088 ring 3, when her black patent lea- ther purse containing $45 and some change, became lost some- where on King Street east. The purse was lost sometime Monday afternoon and the party finding it or anyone knowing of {ts where- abouts should communicate with Mrs. Buck. WEATHER FLIERS MAY CONTINUE IF THEY WISH Rockford Aviators, Safe in Greenland, Told to Do as They Like BACKERS AGREEABLE Bert Hassell "and Parker Cramer and Plane Uninjured (By Associated Press) Rockford, 1lls., Sept. 4. -- Bert Hassell and Parker Cramer may do as they please so far as the remainder of their proposed flight to Stockholm, Sweden, is concern« ed, their backers radioed them tos day in reply to request for in< structions. They were told to use their own judgment. New York, Sept. 3.--Missing two weeks in the Arctic, Bert Hassell and Parker Cramer, United States fliers, were safe today at Mount Evans, Greenland, the second stop on their projected flight from Rockford, III. to Stockholm, Sweden. While the world was becoming con« vinced that they had suffered the fate of other aviators who perished dar- ing the Atlantic, they were making their way over a 50-mile stretch of icy Greenland waste. 'Word of the rescue of the fliers came to the New York Times by way of its radio station in a despatch from Professor W. H. Hobbs, leader of the University of Michigan Green= land expedition. Members of the ex+ pedition, which has a base at Mount Evans, brought the airmen to safety yesterday, after picking them up in icy wastes a short distance from the base. Fliers Uninjured The fliers were uninjured. Al- though hungry, having lived on a ration of eight ounces of pemmican a day, they were stated to be in ex- cellent condition, Shortage of gasoline forced the airmen down on the ice arm of Point Sukkertoppen on August 19, Point Sukkertoppen is a headland on the southwest coast of Greenland, about 50 miles southwest of Mount Evans, at the base of which the Hobbs ex- pedition had prepared a landing field for the airmen. The plane was not damaged. For two weeks the airmen travelled over the icy surface and through wild and unexplored country, hoping to reach safety. A smoke signal they sent up brought members of the expedition in a motor boat to their rescue as they wandered over the wastes, They were taken across the fjord to Camp Lloyd, three miles from the radio station at Mount Evans. Apparently Hassell and Cramer had been forced off their course by ad- verse weather when they attempted to fly from Cochrane, Ont., to Mount Evans, a distance of 1,600 miles, on the second leg of their flight. Hopped Off August 18 Hopping off from Cochrane in their monoplane, Greater Rockford, at 12.12 p.m, Eastern standard time, on August 18, the airmen were sight- ed over Fiskenaesset about 200 miles south of Point Sukkertoppen at 10.30 a.m. the next morning. The expedition led by Professor Hobbs is engaged in experimental work by which it is hoped to estab- lish a system for forecasting Atlan- tic weather by measuring the force and direction of gales which blow from the Arctic. Hassell carried in- struments for meteorological obser. vations and was to have worked with the Hobbs expedition, The eastern section of Oshawa was plunged into darkness last night due to wire trouble on Ath- night and from five until nine o'clock this morning. The wind and rain storm which occurred about seven o'clock yesterday ev- ening was the direct cause of the trouble but the presence of in- numerable tree limbs which were blown against the wires and which caused a "ground" and the resul- tant darkness, was the more actu- al x for the troubl "People can't expect to have trees growing so close to electri wires and have an efficient electrie service at the same time," C. T. Barnes, local manager of the Hy- dro Electric Power Commission, told The Times this morning. To remedy the damage done to the lines on Athol street last night, ft Wire Trouble Causes Interruption in Hydro large number of limbs from trees whose branches completely purs rounded the wires. While his men were doing so, some objee- tions were raised by the only alternative, the so-calle along the street but since this was damage to the trees had to be done. The wires which caused most of the trouble were 2,200 volt cables. While working om them at fnter- vals this morning, the power through them had to be shut off and this caused the temporary periods of lull in the hydro which! was noticeable especially by those who were depending upon the electricity for their washing mach- ines. Over two hudured telephone calls were received at the Hydro offices this morning from people enuiring as to what was wrong with the power and wanting to know when it ould be back em was necessary to cut down a again. .