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A Growing Newspaper in a Growing City "All the It Is News" ir Oshawa Daily Times Succeeding The Oshawa Daily Reformer : OSHAWA, ONTARIO; SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1929 10 Cents a Week; 3 Cents a Copy. SIXTEEN PAGES IS GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER to Two and a Half Years in Penitentiary VOL. 4--NO. 70 EE NN aA News in Brief (By Canadian Press) PR TI STN U0 TRC SW 0 WC a Storm Kills Seven 2h Atlanta, Ga, -- Freakish spring =. Sentenced -and left seven dead, nearly a score injured and heavy, property' damage. London.--Th N op Th Bri idon,-- two giant sis ri- tish dirigibles, R-100 and R-101, with, ing ca f 100 en, a carrying capaci of} A gpa is and a crew of take 'the air in a few JJvecks. Spine F ractured . Toronto.--His spine fractured ina nine-foot fall from a building at 43 Hanna avenue yesterday, Li bie, 280 Robina avenue, doubtful, Charge Dismissed Toronto.--Magistrate Jones day dismissed the charge of slaughter laid * 3k Not Drowned Sault Ste. Marie.--Joe Menard and been drowned in St. Mary's river Wednes- are very much alive and safe at it is learned Henry Brassar feared to have day, their homes at Brassar, here. ® % * Heavy Penalty Toronto.--Found guilty by a coun- ty court jury of having five pounds of opium in his possession, Salcatori esterday to a ne of $200 by Arcadi was sentenced year in jail with 3 Judge Wi a a | Wolf Hunt Idea Re; jected Toronto.--Plans for a wolf hunt in which the victorious hunter would get a $10,000 prize have been rejected feast by Hon. Charles McCrea, minister of game for the present at and fisheries, * * Boy Drowned Windsor, Mar. 23.--Falling from a dock at Ford City into 30 feet Lawrence Smith, 13, Walkerville yesterday was swept away in the Detroit. River and of water, drowned. . LJ » LJ Kingston Tax Rate and highways er, and made their escape. * % x New Constable Woodstock--W. J. tile Marine, and Kent bia lor «IR Ice Bridge Goes Niagara Falls, the ci olice force. he city p Bed? ried down the river. Erie, and the river is full * * x akes Boy T. Life . St. Thomas.--Allan Walker, 20, who was brought to this country five years ago by the Salvation Army, was found dead this morning with a bullet in his head in the orchard of C. R. McKenzie, near Port Stan- Pp ifle by his sid ley, a ,22 ri e y si e. Wolf Situation Serious Sault Ste, Marie.--~Two_wolf hun- ters, William and Earl Hottie, re- turning from a month's hunt on report that the serious and that there should be an increase in Manitoulin Island, wolf situation is very the wolf hunters stationed there. * % 0% Teachers May Strike Charlottetown, P.EI--~The school Prince Edward Island (500 in number) at their annual meet- ing today passed a resolution to dis- continue teaching at the end of the present month unless the government makes satisfactory salary arrange- teachers of ments. * x x Elusive Motorists Guelph. --Speeding over city streets Kingston.--Kingston's tax rate will ear as last year, at Committee recommends to the City Council that the general rate be 38% mills and the garbage tax one-half mill. Last be the same this & 39 mills. The Finance year the general rate was 38 mills. Gossip Blamed Owen Sound. --Gossip was in great measure responsible for the death of Bernice Boddy, Crown Dyre declared at the inquest here last night. Mrs. Boddy, 22 years old and the mother of two children, died of a self-administered Mrs. Alice Attorney T. H. dose of poison, the jury found, ALL IN VAIN "George put in three whole months 1s he worrying over which of two gir] would choose for his wife." "Well, which did he choose?" "When he finally got ready to pro- pose, he discovered that neither of them would have him." partly cloudy and a little cold- er, with local showers or snow- flurries. Georgian Baye Cloudy, occasional showers. Sunday---Noi somewhat 2) SOME SNOW, lies in the Western hospital and his recovery 18 ester man- against Robert Mont- gomery in connection with the death of Samuel Pottaker in an accident. at 65 miles an hour, two men in a small motor car, sup- sed to be whiskey peddlers, eluded Provincial Police in Guelph after be- ing trailed all the way from Kitchen- Sprague of Tavistock, an Englishman with ser- vice in the Royal Engineers, Mercan- County . con- stabilary, was selected out of nearly 100 applicants as the new member of [pi ised and that the forces of Gen- Ont~Early this morning the ice bridge, with a great roar, tore itself loose and was car- ) i During the night and today. there has been a great movement of ice from Lake Attacks on Federal Strong-| hold Have So Far Been Re- pulsed By the Govern- ment Troops, Who Are Holding Out Pending the Arrival of Reinforcements NEW BATTLE COMING IN NORTHERN MEXICO General Escobar With His Revolutionary Army is 'Moving South and is Waiting for Attack of the Loyal Armies Under Gen- eral Calles (By Caopadian Press) Rebel troops in their counter of- fengive against - the government were at the gates of Mazatlan on the west coast today and fighting for the possession of that port was immanent. Some fighting between the 2.500 dofenders and the 5,000 rebels was reported, bat apparently little blood had been shed. 4 force of 6,000 federal re-in forcements was rushing to the re- lief of the city, but was not expect- ed before Sunday at the earliest. The rebels bave imposed a war tax on Nogales, Sonora, for funds to run the revolution. + Attacks Jcepulsed Mexico City, Mar. 23.--A gov- ernment announcement said today that repeated rele] attacks on Maz- utlan, west coast port, hud been re- era. Jaime Carrillo are strongly en- trerched there! any evens tuality."" > y Two battles were fought there yesterday and in both attacks the so;clers of the rebel general, I'ran- cisco Manzo, wa'e beaten back. To- day the rebels were said to he at (;sra Blanca, a full five kilometres {rom the eity. Lining Up for Battle Juarez, Chihnaaua, Mexico, Mar. 2%.--The revolutionary arwy under General Jose Gonzaid Escobar, co:emander-in-rhief, which aban- doned Torreon last Monday and re- trexted north along the Mexican National Railroad to Jiminez, today was moving back south to Berme- JiJjlo, 30 miles north of Torreon. The rebels wiil wait at Derme- jillo for the at:ack of federals un- der P. Elias Calles, according to Escobar, ° First News of Battle Los Angeies, Mar. 23.--The first direct 'word hrcugn independent sources from Mazatlan, Sonora, Mexico, upon which preliminary at- tarks -have been made by a Mexi- can rebel army in an attempt w disclose 2,509 strong!y entrenched Federale, was revel by The As- soriated Press today from Captain Liljequist 'of the steamer Margaret Johnson. The Margaret Johnsoa left Ma- gatlan Harbor yesterday after the first rebel attack and is now off the western Mexican coast. . "The rebels were encamped 3 Or 4 miles from the town," said Cap- tain Liljequist's radiogram, "and reports were coming from differ- ent sources that the rebel forces were moving forwad. Some rifle shots were heard. ' Outwardly Ma- zatlan seemed very tranquil with business going on in the streets as usual." FIRST EDITIONS ARE "STILL VALUABLE London, March 23. -- Respectable prices continue to be registered in the auction room for first editions of modern authors, Bernard Shaw's "Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant" brought $220 the other day, and "Man and Superman" realized $75. Gilbert's "Bab Ballads", contdining an auto- graph letter by Gilbert in 1893, des- .cribing his partnership with Sullivan at the Savoy and hinting at its dis- solution, was sold for $130--$100 for the letter and $30 for the book. Mexican Rebels Gather For Counter-Offensive Near West Coast Port 'Germany Not to Admit Trotsky (Cable Service to The Times by The Canadian Press) Berlin, Mar. 23.--An informal agreement has been reached by members of the German Cabinet not to admit into Germany, Leon Trotzky, exiled former Soviet war commissioner. The matter was taken up by the ministers among themselves and not at a formal cabinet meeting. CAMBRIDGE WINS ANNUAL BOAT EVENT OXFORD SUFFERS THE SIXTH CONSECUTIVE DEFEAT Light Blues Crossed ' Line Seven Lengths Ahead of Rivals (Cable Service to The Times by Canadian Press) Putney-on-Thames, Eng., Mar. 23. ~--Cambridge, with a veteran aggre- gation of oarsmen, scored its sixth consecutive victory over Oxford in the 81st ammual boat race between the two famous English universities today. a, : The' Cambridge trew, taking an early lead, crossed the finish line se- ven full lengths ahead of their ri- vals from the Isis, Cambridge's veterans, pulling a strong and steady stroke, jumped in- to a half length lead at the end. of the first half mile, increased this ad- vantage to three quarters of a length at the mile and then pulled away from their rivals during the rest of the struggle. The winners covered the four miles and a quarter in 19 minutes and 24 seconds, well behind the record of 18-20 set by Oxford in 1911. Petition Denied Bonn, Germany. -- The county court here today denied the peti- tion of Princess Victoria, sister of the former Kaiser, to disallow bankruptcy proceedings which had been filed against her. . MISSISSIPPI GOES THROUGH A SECOND LEVEE AT QUINCY Over Acres Which Land Inundated Quincy, Ill, Mar. 23.--The swollen Mississippi, struggling with the hea- vy spring flow from its tributaries, crashed through the second levee of the Indian Grave drainage district yesterday and inundated 12,000 addi- tional acres of corn andswheat land. It was the second break in less than 24 hours, and put approximate ly 20,000 acres of rich land under an average of seven feet of water. With millions of gallons of water pouring in through the two breaks, patrons fought frantically to keep dykes of some 50,000 additional sur- rounding acres from giving away. Eight hundred homes would be in the flood path if the levees of the Mark and Fabius districts across the river in Missouri, the Lima Lake reg- ion to the north and the South Quin- cy district, gave away. New Orleans, March 23.--~The Brit- ish auxiliary schooner Imalone, of Belize, suspected of being a contra- band carrier, was sunk off the Louis- iana coast yesterday in a battle with a Coast Guard craft, and one mem- ber of its crew, a negro seaman, was either 'killer or drowned. © Was n's Report Washington, March = 23.--Admiral F. .C. Billard, commandmant of the sea Coast Guard, said last night the British Schooner Fired on And Sunk by U.S. Coastguards in a battle with Coast Guard craft off the Louisiana coast--was one of the most notorious smugglers enga- uors. into the United States. ged in the illicit importation of lig- Reports relayed here from Coast Guard radio station at Pascagoula and Biloxi, Miss, were that acting under orders to capture the Imalone, the cutter Walcott, commanded by Warrant Officer Frank Paul, encount- Lered the schooner yesterday off Tri- «schooner Imalone~which was sunk nity Shoals approximately 200 miles southeast of Marsh Island, : 12,000 Additicnal| Hankow Menaced In New Fighting Toronto, Mar, 28.--The bass and maskinonge season in Ontario is to be extended 15 days this autumn. This decision was reached by the fish and games committee of the Provincial legislature yesterday. The committee had to deal with a petition from the Kawartha Lakes district asking for an earlier open- ing of the season and a month's extension in' the fall. STATION INCIDENT REGRETTED BY CNR. OFFICIALS ASSURANCE 1S GIVEN THAT IT WILL NOT OCCUR AGAIN Chief Draper Orders That Newspaper Men Must Be Recognized (By Canadian Press) Toronto, Mar, 23.--"It is too late now to make amends for the unfortunate occurrences at the Union Station Wednesday night, when mewspapermen and relatives of the dead and injured from the Drocourt wreck were ordered off the station platform by C.N.R. and city police, but such g thing will not take place again." The press was officially informed last night. The responsibility for policing the Union Station on special oc- casfons in the future has been definitely fixed, and every facility for getitng information will be accorded the press, "The respon- sibility is now in good hands," sald"a Canadian National Railways official, who said the railway executives in - Montreal regretted the incident, and hope too much will not now be made of the oc- currence, ; 's Instructions Inspectors of every police divi- sion will receive personal instruec- tions from Chief Constable D. C. Draper to honor press badges is- sued by the Chief to: newspaper. men. Police have no jurisdiction over the : Union - Station, where press men were refused admit- tance to the platform to meet the rescue train from Northern On- tario Wednesday night, PRINCE AND MOTHER ARE RECONCILED Remains to Lie in State Beside Those of Unknown Soldier (Cable Service to The Times by Canadian Press) London, 'Mar, 23--The Exchange Telegraph . Company dispatches from Dinatd-Saint-Enogat today said that Prince Carol late yesterday met his mother, Queen Marie, and what is considered a reconciliation between them took place. . The meeting occurred at the villa of the Grand Duke Cyril, of Russia, at Saint Briac, where Queen Marie is visiting her sister, the Grand Duchess. The. meeting was said to have had no political significance, EXPLOSION WRECKS CHIGAGD BUILDING The Occupants, Fortunatily, Were at Theatre When the * . Blast Occurred Chicago, MaMr, 23. -- An explo- sion wrecked a two-flat building | on Rosco's street late last night. Eight members of the families liv- ing there had, by mere chance, ai- ranged a point theatre party short- ly before and as a result were not in building when it was destroyed. The explosion, attributed to a furnace, rocked the neighborhood and started a fire. The brick walls fell so quickly that anyone in the building would have been unable to escape. Perth, Australia, Mar. 23.--The final match of the 1928-29 English cricket tour of Australia ended here today in a draw. England's opponents were a team chosen from all Australia. The final scores were: Australia 310 and 186 for three wickets; England 241. NEW PHASE OF CHINESE WAR LIKELY CONGRESS GIVES FREE HAND TO NATIONALIST - GOVERNMENT | Opposition Generals Are Taking Active Steps to Resist Attacks (Cable Service To The Times By Canadian Press) Nanking, China, Mar. 23.--The Kuomintang party congress this afternoon adopted a resolution granting the government the power "to do what it sees fit if the Hankow generals continue to disregard Nanking's orders." There were heated discussions, the Conservative opposing the measure saying "if it is passed it means war." . The measure was adopted overwhelmingly. . Rebels Preparing (Cable Service To The Times By Canadian Press) Shanghai, Mar. 23.--Japanese reports from Hankow state that the opposition genefals who re- cently came into control of the Wuhan cities are constructing a large scale system of trenches around them with the centre at Yanglo, Hupeh Province, slightly down the river. They are also asking Wuhan merchants and bankers for a loan of $5,000,000 Mexican for a war fund, and have started collecting various taxes in advance, DEAD BRAKENAN WAS FIRST HAN TO "DISCOVER ERROR Shouted Warning But Was Too Late to Avert the . C 1H © n . DYING STATEMENT Train Orders Have Been Secured for Use at the Inquest Parry Sound, March 23.--The one man who first discovered that a tra- gic error was leading the two crack fliers of the Canadian National Rail- ways to destruction near Drocourt is now dead. That man was Brake- man L. V, Savage, of the ill-starred westbound. train No. 3 : In an ante-mortem statement just before he died in hospital here yes- terday, Brakeman Savage furnished a stirring portrayal of the last, fu- tile dramatic moment that immediate- ly preceded the railway tragedy in the darkest hours before last Wed- nesday's dawn. 3 Called to Conductor . Speaking with Dr. Limbert, Sav- age disclosed that he had been the first two see that No. 3 had passed its "meet," When he noted that the engineer had over-run the siding, he at once spoke to Conductor Bars- tead, saying "He has run past the switch," Barstead verified the infor- mation by a swift glans through a window and in a split second had leaped for the emergency signal cord, At that very moment the giant loco- motives came together with a crash and Barstead, his hand scarcely off the signal-cord, met instant death. (Continued on Page 4) Lewiston, Maine. -- Fire wnicn broke out early today after an ex- plosion in LeBlanc's dye works on Main street, destroyed four two- storey frame buildings housing ser- en stores and shops and a rooming house, with a loss estimated at $100,000. President to Defy Laws at Foch Funeral (Cable Service to The Times by Canadian Press) Paris, Mar. 28.--Presi- dent Doumergue, in defi- ance of the precedent which decrees that the chief of a state may not attend the funeral of a commoner, will ride in the cortege of Marshal Foch on Tuesday, the council of ministers decided today. .as legal Fishing Season To Be Extended (Cable Service to The Times oy Press Canadian London, Mar. 23.--The Express today says that fighting has begun on the Hunan Kiangsi border in China between the Kwangsi oppon- Jury Deliberated For About Five Hours After Hearing the Evidence ents of the Nanking Government and the old fourth army, which is now supporting President Chiang Ka iShek. The city of Hankow was said to be menaced. LOUIS N. AUGER 1S SENTENCED T NINE YEAR TERM YOUNGEST M.P. WEEPS AND PLEADS INNOCENCE Announces That An Appeal Will Be Made for a New Trial Ottawa, Mar. 23.--Louis M. Auger, former member of parlia- ment for Prescatt county, was sen- tenced to nine years imprisonment in Kingston penitentiary yesterday afternoon on 'a charge of commit- ting a serious offence against Miss Laurence Martel, 17-year-old girl of Hawkesbury, Ont. Sentence was pronounced by Justice Wright, presiding at the spring assizes of the supreme court of Ontario. It was learned today an appeal would be taken to the appellate division of the supreme court of the province at Toronto as soon formalities have been completed. Auger - before sentence was passed, delivered an impassioned plea for leniency. He pictured the hardship and suffering that would fall on the heads of his aged par- ents if sent to prison, and urged that he be gran a new trial, Weeps When Auger broke down and wépt when sentencé had been pro- rounced. * Auger was convicted on Wed- nesday following a trial which lasted two days, In its verdict of "guilty" the jury had added a rider, recommending mercy. At the time Mr. Justice Wright indicated that he would defer sentence in order /that he might study certain phases of the case. FUNERAL OF FOCH TO BE IMPRESSIVE Queen Marie and Prince Carol of Rumania Met in Paris (Cable Service to The Times by Canadian Press) Paris, Mar. 23.--France continu- ed its preparations today to make the funeral of Marshal Foch, who saved it twice from the despoila- tion of an invader the most impres< sive mortuary rite of modern time. Meanwhile the body, of the hum- ble, modest old 'soldier, about whom in death so much ceremony --and simple, unaffected grief--is being centred, lay sealed in its coffin in a room at his mansion on the Rue de Grenelle. It will remain there, accessible for a while to public homage, until tomorrow morning, when quietly and unostentatfously it will be tak- en to repose by the side of the tomb of the unknown soldier pe- neath the Arc de Triomphe. SHIP. REPORTED LOST NOW SAFE Danish Fish Canier Was Missing for Sixty-three Days St. Johns Nfld., Mar. 23. -- The Danish fish carrier Gerda, given up as lost, after having been miss- ing for 63 days, is reported safe in England. She left here for Rose Blanche to load fish on Janu- ary 16th, in charge of Captain An- dersyn, with five men 'and appar- ently was driven to sea in the gales which swept the ocean on January 20th. The name of the port of arrival cannot be ascertain- ed. The only particulars are that she was much damaged. All the | crew were Danes. . Spain Excludes Foreign Papers (Cable Service to The Times by The Canadian Press) London, Mar. 23.--Advices from Spain today said the Government of Premier Primo de Rivera had instituted a censorship more strin- gent than formerly. The new rul- ing excludes from Spain all news- papers published abroad in which there is reference to events and the situation in Spain. . NEW QUOT IS EFFECTIVE ON JULY 1ST PRES. HOOVER ISSUES THE NECESSARY PROCLAMATION British Immigration Quota is Doubled, That of Other Countries Reduced (By Canadian Press) Washington, Mar. 23.--The new immigration law goes into effect on July first next, President Hoover announces, 'unless action is taken by Congres sin the meantime." In proclaiming the new basis for Eur- opean and Oriental immigration, by Congress in the meantime." In attorney-general has advised me | that "in the failure Of congress to suspend action it is now mandatory upon me under the Immigration Act to issue the proclamation es- tablishing national origing as the basis of immigration quotas. The proclamation' must be issued prior to April first and will be issued at once. It will go into effect on July first, unless action is taken by Con- gress in the meantime." While I am strongly in favor of restricted and selected immigration, I "have opposed the national origins basis. I therefore naturally dislike the duty of issuing the proclamation and installing the new basis, but the president of the United States must be the first to obey the law." The proclamation was issued this afternoon. It puts into effect the new basis which will double the British quota and cut in half the Irish Free State, the German and the Scandinavian, CANADIAN LEGION SPONSORS TRIBUTE 70 MARSHAL FOCH Service May Also Be Ar ranged By the Legion in Toronto Ottawa, March 23.--Canada's capital will pay homage to Mar- shal Ferdinand Foch at a public memorial service on Parliament Hill early Tuesday evening, a few hours after the remains of the late generalissimo have been laid to rest among France's great. The public' demonstration of respect, in which thousands are expected to take part, is sponsored by the Canadian Legion of the British Empire Service league. Co-operat- ing are the Union Nationale Fran- caise, the Franco-Amerique and the Alliance Francaise, The p. m for the service will be entirely musical. Buglers will sound the Last Post, pipers will skirl a dirge and the national an- them sof the wartime allies will be ¢ Adamo Was Visibly Moved When Sentence of Term in Portsmouth Peniten. tiary Was Imposed on Him By Mr. Justice Rose in the Supreme Court at Whitby Last Night ACCUSED WENT ON STAND IN DEFENCE Claimed He Saw Nothing of Boy on the Highway, and Was Not Aware That an Accident Had Occurred-- Contradicted the Previous Witness George Adamo, Picton fruit deal er and Italian by birth, was found guilty of manslaughter by a jury at a resumed session of the Supe reme Court at Whitby yesterday, after that body had deliberated for nearly five hours and was sentence ed to two and a half years in King ston Penitentiary by Mr. Justice Rose. Adamo was visibly moved when sentence was passed. He had pleaded not guilty. The charge arose out of the death on the Kingston Highway last February 19, of Nathaniel William Etcher, near his home at Harme ony. Young Etcher was just come pleting his paper ro when he was struck by Adamo' truck as it proceeded from Oshawl ' to Picton, on its way from Toronto. Adamo failed to stop following the accie dent, despite the fact that, accords ing to the evidence, his companion on the journey, Ronald Welsh, ag- ed 19, had cautioned him that "per- haps the boy had been killed." Welsh testified that he had seen the lad struck by the right front fender of Adamo's truck, that he had been knocked down on the side of the road, and that Adamo had failed to take any notice of him, When Welsh stated that the lad had been perhaps killed, ' he re- peated Adamo, who is accredited with saying, "To hell with him." Adamo is a man with a wife and eight children, and carries on his business between Picton and Tor- onto. He is reputed to own ame other building used as a store in that city. While Mr. J. M. Godfrey, coun- sel for the defense, was address. ing the jury, Mrs. Adamo, who had sat through the whole court with- out any apparent interest in the proceedings, swooned and it was necessary to assist her from the court room. The case, which was adjourned a week ago because the defense stat- ed it could procure additional wit« nesses who would likely add cone siderably to its case, was resumed yesterday and lasted all the day, the jury retiring at about 5.45 0'« clock in the afternoon. Saw Boy Before Accident The first witness called after court was opened yesterday after- noon was a Mr, Wilson, who was walking along the highway going in an easterly direction at the time of the accident. He declared he met Etcher on the long hill about a quarter of a mile east of Har- mony, as the lad was returning from delivering his papers, A. C. Lycett, of Oshawa, driving in a car with some other people towards Oshawa near Newcastle, stated the car was struck by a truck. He said the car was turne ed around and followed the truck, the occupants finally succeed- ed in bringing the truck to a stop through waving at the (Continued on Page 3) which the Canadian Legion is to send to Paris to be placed on the thems of the wartime allies will be played. A magnificent poppy wreath dedicated at the service. Meighen Claims Next War Will Result in Loss For All Windsor, Mar, 23.--The world to- day may have many problems, but the biggest one is the finding of a basis for enduring peace, members of the Boarder Chamber of Commerce were told. yesterday by Right Hon. Arthur Meighen, former Premier of Canada, who warned his hearers that the next war would result in victory for no nation, but in loss for all Mr, Meighen said that many mis- understandings had arisen since the close of the Great War in a decade that had, in the main, been devoted to an earnest and honest search for peace on the part of the statesmen of the British Empire in particular and by the leading men of other ciyilized nations as well. "The former Conservative chieftain declased that treaties such as the Lo- garno Paet, the Kellogg-Briand trea- ties outlawing war, and other insfru- ments were but weak reeds on which to rely, and he told his hearers that he thought a scaling down of arma- ments: was perhaps the best way to approach the 'question of securing peace.