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Oshawa Daily Times, 16 May 1929, p. 1

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"All the News While Il News" The Oshmua Daily Times Succeeding The Oshawa Daily Refromer VOL. 4--NO. 115 (By Canadian Press) p * Ld t News in Brief PlLIZIELE Report Denied Prague, Czecho-Slovakia.-- The Eat Stniays and "pul Holders, _ A Growing Newspaper in a Growing City OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1929 10 Cents a Week; 3 Cents a Copy. SIXTEEN PAGES EVELAND DEATH T OLL NEARS 150 report that Pope Pius XI was com- ing to take a cure at a monastery near Marienbad, was , officially denied by the secretary to the Archbishop of Prague, Ld Police Blamed Kovno, Lithuania.--Responsible Polish 'quarters were charged with complicity in the attempted assas- sination of Premier A. Voldemaras, in an article appearing in the newspaper Lietuvos Aidas, Gov- ernment organ, * % * Fighters Disbanded Dessau, Germany.--The State Government has issued an order disbanding the Red front fighters, a Communist organization. It was believed the action forestalled a plan to transfer liere a demon- stration forbidden in Hamburg. Communists Arrested Vienna. --Four Communists ar- rested last night in a concealed office were discovered today, po- lice said, to be Hungarians re- ceiving their orders from Bela Kun, former Hungarian Bolghev- ist dictator, in Moscow, ww Appointment. Made London. --Prof. Lascegles Aber- crombie, professor of English iit- erature at the University of Leeds since 1922, hag been appointed by the University of London to the chair of English literature at Bed- ford College. LJ . ® Princess Arrives London.--Princess Ingrid of Sweden has arrived in London for a month's stay during the height of the social season. She will re- main with her grandfather, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, brother of the late Edward VII and uncle of King George. * * W lane Base Toronto.--Within a few weeks Toronto will be able to offer ac- commodation to seaplanes as well ag to land flying craft. Work has been started on a landing station for flying planes on the bay at the foot of Yonge street. * * * Celebrate Anniversary Rio de Janeiro.--The 41st anni- versary of the signing of a decree abolishing slavery was celebrated here by 3,000 army recruits who swore allegiance to the flag. Presi. dent Washington Luis witnessed the ceremony; * » Boy's Body Found Charlottetown, P.E.I.--The body of Charles, small son of C. T. Lewis, Albarton, was found float- ing near a wharf where he had been playing with a large balloon. It ig thought he slipped from the dock. * x ¥ Gets Six Months Vancouver.--Sentence of six months in prison, dating from April 16, when he was convicted of manslaughter, was imposed ycs- terday by Mr. Justice Gregory in Assize Court on Theodore Boggs, 21-year-old University of British Columbia student. * x = Crashes Into Rest. ant - Niagara Falls, Ont.--Mrs, Dow- ney was driving her ear down Bridge Street when it got out of control and crashed into Shields's Restaurant, wrecking the front and the window fittings. Mrs. Downey escaped serious injury, but considerable damage was caused to the car. *® LJ At Risk of Damage Suits Sault Ste. Marie, Onte--Facing threatened actions for damages im |_ case any pupils of schools are in- jured on the swings placed at all the schools, the board has declined to remove them and will take chances, it was decided at a meet- ing of that body. * Builds Plane With Junk Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.--Aldo Diamantini, a 15-year-old Sault boy, has just finished a two-foot model monoplane which makes a speed of 20 miles an hour, and is a perfect miniature of machines in commercial use. The boy con- structed the machine from junk which he collected, using a motor from an old moving-picture mach- dne. LJ Ld * Died of Poison Quebec.--Jules Vallee, coroner of the Quebec district, has been notified of a poisoning from For- tierville, the victim being a man named Arcade Lemay. Lemay, who resides but a few miles from the village of Fortier- ville, was found unconscious yes- terday morning, and died during the course of the afternoon, after much suffering. WEATHER The depression over Michigan State last evening has in. creased in intensity - and is now centred over northern Quebec having caused gales on the Great Lakes, while high pressure and cooler weather is following from the westward, The weather has been unset- tled and showery from On- tario eastward and snow has fallen in the Lake Superios district and northern Ontario. The weather is fair and a lit- tle warmer in the west. Forecasts--Lower Lake Res gion--Strong west and north west winds or gales; becom- ing cooler; fair tonight and Friday, with moderate west- erly winds on Friday Graf Zeppelin Again Winging Its Way Over Atlantic BIG GERMAN DIRIGIBLE STARTS TRIP Forty Crew and Eighteen Passengers on Board, In- cluding One Woman, Al- so a Gorilla for New York Zoo and 400 Lbs. of Freight MESSAGES SENT FROM SHIP DURING FLIGHT Expected to Arrive Lake- hurst, N.J. Late Saturday Night or Sunday Morn- ing, According to Dirig- ible's Master, Dr. Hugo Eckener (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Aboard Graf Zeppelin, Lakehurst, N.J,, May 16.--6.35 a.m. (12.35 a.m., E.S.T.--Every- thing is fine aboard the Zeppelin with the passengers lined up at the windows. of the salon, watch- ing the panorama below Mrs, Pierce is constantly ab- sorbed in studying maps and con- verging with Captain Wilkins, who is taking photographs of the land- scape. ¢ Barcelona, Spain, May 16.--The transatlantic airliner Graf Zep- pelin, coming from France, pass- ed over Barcelona at 2.35 p.m. (8.35 a.m., ES.T.) At the time that the Graf Zep- pelin was sighted over Barcelona, she had been in the air eight hours and thirty-eight minutes, having covered approximately 650 miles at an average speed of 75 miles an hour. Friedrichshafen, Germany, Miy 16. --The dirigible Graf Zeppelin, mighty mistress of the air, raced westward with the sun today above southwest- ern Europe on its second trip across the Atlantic to America. Before it lay a variable course a= bove Gibraltar, probably the Azores, and Bermuda, to Lakehurst, N.J, which the dirigible's master, Dr. Hugo | Eckener, did not expect to reach be- fore late Saturday night or Sunday morning. Aboard the ship were 40 of 'the crew, 18 passengers and Mrs. Mary Pierce, of New York, the only wo- man passenger who is making the trip despite urgent pleadings of her husband and mother. Among the men was Captain Sir George Hubert Wil- kins, Arctic explorer. The ship was trundled from (Continued on Page 5) Knowledge of 'Human Growth Closer Relationship Between the Universities and Sec- ondary School Teachers (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Fredericton, N.B, May 16--No university can justly claim to be dis- charging its duty to society unless the courses and facilities have a close functional relation to public business, said Dr. Horace L. Brittajn, PH.D, director and secretary of the Citizens' Research Institute of Canada, in the course of his encaenial address at the closing exercises of the univer- sity of New Brunswick, speaking on "the university and public affairs," Dr. Brittain stressed the necessity for teachers wh have greater knowl- edge of the laws of human. growth as well as academic = subjects, and suggested that there should be throughout Canada a closer relation between the universities and the training of secondary school teachers. Radio Broadcasting Public Service Basis .Toronto, Ont, May 16.--Sir John Aird, chairman, and members of the Royal Commission on Radio Broad- casting, today conferred with Hon. John S. Martin, Minister of Agricul- ture, and C. C. Hele, director of pub- licity of the Ontario Government, re- questing the Government to approve a resolution, as passed by other pro- vinces, establishing radio broadcasting on a basis of public service. The re- quest will go before the next cab- inet meeting. its Court June 26-27 London. -- Announcement was made yesterday that Queen Mary would hold courts in i xingham Palace on June 26 and 27. enroute | Firemen Rescuing Victims of Cleveland Explosion pm The above piéture, taken while the firemen were busy in thelr atte mpts to rescue the victims, iw the Cleveland, double explosion in the X-Ray room 'yesterday caused the deaths of app roximately 150 persons, doctors, nurses and patients, and caused injury to many others. The clinic was founded by Dr. George W. native of Canadians, died in the disaster asa result of gas poisoning. + Crile and Dr. Jo hn Phillips. BE ---- eS ------ The latter, a graduate of the University of Toronto and a Llinic Hospital, hen a Expert Engineer Gives Evidence At Parry Sound ENGINEER WRECKED A YEAR AGO GIVES EVIDENCE Foaming Boiler Does Not Mean: the Stopping of Train States Witness Parry Sound, Ont, May 16.--One engineer whose train was wrecked a year ago today came to the assistance of another whose train was wrecked two months ago. Leonard Bradford, engineer on the Canadian Pacific Railway train which was wrecked at Dockrill more than a year ago with heavy loss of life was called as a witness for the defence at the trial of G. V. Alexander, driver of the en- gine on the northbound Canadian National Railway train in the Dro- court collision of March 20, Alexander is being tried for man- slaughter and criminal negligence. Bradford also had had a crimigal prosecution as a result of the wreck of his train but he was acquitted. The witness was introduced as an expert and said he had served dur- ing the war with the Royal engineers, (Continued on Page 5) VIGEROY OF INDIA T0 RAISE FUNDS Proceeds to , be U Used for Pre- vention of Sickness in India Simla, India, May 16.--~--Baron Irwin, Viceroy of India, has de- cided to open an All-India fund to commemorate the recovery King George from his long and dangerous illness, The thanks- giving appeal, issued today, sald that with the King's approval the proceeds would be utilized for the alleviation of prevention of sick- ness and disease in India. The appeal had Been issued in response to a desire expressed to him privately, and publicly in the the press, the Viceroy said, He said he intended to take the ad- vice of both official and non-of- ficial persons throughout India before submitting for the King- Emperor's approval his sugges- tions as to the particular object to which the fund. should be devoted, Ao of }. Electrocuted Saving Cat North, Portal, Sas Sask., May 16.-- 'Because he climbed a power Ine to rescue a cat at the top of the pole Charles Lafrente, farm worker, is dead' today, electrocuted when the cat clawed the heavy-current wires and the power passed along into the body of the would-be rescuer, Railway Men Reassured by Lloyd George Rates or Fares Would Not Be Increased Nor Wages Cut LLandudno, Wales, May 16.-- Questioners at a meeting conduct ed by "Right Hon. David Lloyd George at Llandudno Junction were anxious to know if the road devel- opment scheme of the Liberal party to relieve unemployment would take profits away from the rail- ways. Llandudno being a railway cetnre, many railway workers at- tended the meeting and. plied the Liberal leader with questions on this point. "The. more you improve the roads, the more ultimately will be the railways' profits," Mr. Lloya George answered, "It is a funda- mental mistake to think on one man gets more, another man is bound to get less. There is no limit to the good things of Provi- dence if we know how to tap them." Joyce Wethered went into the 36 holes finals to be played tomorrow, by defeating Edith Leitch Gued- alla, five up and four to play. TRAIN JUMPS TRACK FOURTEEN INJURED, SEVERAL MAY DIE 18 Cars Leave Track and Dash Into Tool House CAUSED BY TRUCK Both Tracks Blocked by Blazing Cars and Debris Campbell, N.Y, May 16--At least twelve section hands were rush- ed to hospitals in Bath and Corning, several probably fatally injured, af- ter sixteen cars of an eastbound Del- aware, Lackawanna and Western freight train left the track directly in font of the station here today and crashed into a tool house, burying the workers under a'mass of wreckage. Several of the injured were burn- ed when the shattered building took fire, which spread to the demolished |- freight cars. From 12 to 14 section hands were sheltering themselves in the build- ing. "The station operator reported, and all were injured. Arthur Dibble, of Elmira, was the conductor in charge of the freight. A broken truck is believed to have been the cause of the derailment. Both "tracks were blocked by the blazing freight cars and wrecking equipment was rushed to the scene. Love Pirate Parjs.--Madame Coty, wife of the perfumer and newspaper own- er, filed suit for divorce today here alleging another woman has supplanted her in her husband's affections. In the complaint the name is given 'Joseph Francois Spoturno, called Coty." First Patient His Dying Wife Cleveland, May 16.--Dr. Selwig, interne at another Cleveland hos- pital, was among the doctors rushed to the clinic to aid the in- jured. His first patient was his wife. She died as he worked to save her. Angry Strikers Dynamite Main Troops Arrive Tear Gas "Bombs Used to Affect Arrest of Strikers (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Elizabethton, Tenn.--The water main serving Elizabethton and the American Bemberg and Glanzstoff Rayon plants. which were forced: to close April 15 by a strike of 5,000 workers was dynamited early this morning. A detachment of national guardsmen was despatched imme- diately to the scent. Tear gas bombs were used to effect the arrest of approximately 100 men and women textile mill strikers who had collected on a highway over which workers were being taken to the Alneficn Glanzstoff and Bam- berg Rayon plants, The demonstrations and arrest oc- curred three hours after the water main serving this city and the mills had been dynamited. The ' bombs were 'used after stones were alleged to have been thrown at busses and automobiles in which employees of the mills were riding. Those arrest- ed were herded into the court house here. Distressing Scenes Among Miners Families In English Village of Durham Described {By George Hambleton, Canadian Press Staff correspondent) Bishop Auckland, Durham, Eng. May 16--Among the mining villages of Durham, Witton Park remains in its poverty and its distinction, When the writer, visited Witton Park last January, ill-fed children with pinch- ed faces stood about the streets shivering in the raw cold of the north country. Four months have months have brought changes. From various relief sources clothing came in to the village. The children in thie streets seem. better noyrished. But the bettering of trade of other centres passed Witton Park by on the other side. A number of the younger men have been transferred, but the great basic problef of jun- employed married men is still unsol- ved. He is anchored, and young men esi Jounge around doing nothing, their continued idleness and' scarcity C. wood sapping their vitality and steadily wearing away any initiative they ever possessed. The writer talked with two of the idle married men today. One of them, with five children, has worked only eleven weeks in the past eight years; he pays $1.25 for rent. the other has not worked at all for six years, According to the latter's own story he must maintain his wife and four children on poor law relief of $6.25 a week. Out of that sum "What did you have for dinner," the man was asked. "Bread and margarine," he replied. "And what else," the writer asked. "Oh, I just pulled the old belt a bit tighter," he replied. So, with its dismal, ill-kept street, its wretchedness and its destitution, Witton Park remains--still waiting AS DEADLY Ralf Budd, Lake Boat, Is Aground (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.,, May 16.-- The steamer Ralf Budd, of the Great: Lakes Transportation Com- pany, is reported to be aground and breaking up off Keeweenaw. Point, on Lake Superior: The crew have been taken off safely, according to information received here, Shields Verbal Battle With Earl Callaway THREATENS TO DIS TRIBUTE HANDBILLS CALLING MEETING Dr. Shields Exonerated by Delegates at Yester- day's Meeting (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Buffalo, May 16.--Dean Earl Callawoy of Des Moines University, after issuing an invitation from the floor of the Baptist Bible Union Convention to delegates to attend a meeting at a hotel tonight to hear President H. C, Wayman and the dismissed faculty's side of the school row, was told by Dr, T. T. Shields, president of the board of trustees that he had no objtction to Mr. Callaway's speaking at this afternoon's session if his talk was not of too controversial nature. Envoys from President H, C. Wayman, dismissed with entire faculty from Des Moines University, indicated today they would fight for a chance to present their side of the school row, either on the floor of the Bible Union Convention here or at a meeting in a hotel later. In a verbal tilt today, Dr. T. T. Shields, chairman of the board of trustees, about whom the fight was centred, was heard to challenge (Continued on Page 5) Revise Fish Classification (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Ottawa, May 16.--Canada is at- tempting to revise her entire schedule of fish classifications in the customs tariff schedule, W. H. Moore, chairmam of the Tariff Ad- visory Board, stated at the sessioy of that bedy today. Since the United States has bees drawing up a completely re-classified list, the Tariff Board will welcome any sug- gestions which are of a practical nature. NO APLICATION FOR BAIL Toronto, Ont, May 16--Geo. F, Henderson, K.C,, of Ottawa, made no application to the Attorney-General's Department today, to have 2 supreme court judge hear an application for bail for Louis M. Auger who is now awaiting a new trial on a serious charge against a young woman. A report last night stated Mr. Hender- for something to {Wn Ups = | son would make an application to the department today. i TOTAL OF VICTIMS GROWS POISON GAS DOES ITS TERRIBLE WORK Poisonous Fumes Caused by Explosions Continue to Take Toll of Life Hours After the Disaster, and Doctors Are Making Valiant Efforts to Save the Lives of the Stricken Sufferers, As the Death Total in Explosion and Fire in Cleveland Hospital Threatens to Reach the 150 Mark SEVERAL INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE TRAGEDY OPENED BY OFFICIALS Victims of Hydrocyanic Acid and Bromide Gas Succumb To Its Effects in Spite of Blood Transfusions and the Administration of Oxygen--Several Canadians Con- nected With the Institution and in It as Patients, Re- ported Safe--Pitiful Scenes in Identifying of Victims (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Cleveland, May 16--~The noxious, brownish gas which shattered the Cleveland Clinic Hospital and dropped patients, doctors and nurses in their tracks as they fought for escape, con- tinued its insidious work today, driv- ing the death total toward the 150 mark, The two terrific explosions and the fire which followed ignition of x-ray films in the basement yesterday and which took scorés of lives did not do all the damage. The poisonous fumes continued to act on the blood of the victims throughout the night and resulted in hourly reports of ad- ditional deaths, The great majority of the 120 dead reported before noon were residents of this city, a score being from other cities. Investigations by Governor Myers Y. €ovper, Coroner A. J. Pearse and City Manager William R. Hopkins were put under way early in an ef fort to solve the tragedy in the white brick, four-storey clinic building. Cleveland, May 16.--Coroner A, J. Pearse announced that blood tests ot victims of the Cleveland clinic explo: sion showed that death was caused by inhalation of hydrocyanic acid gas and bromine gas, both of which were present in large quantities, Fire Door Open Cleveland, May 16.--The fire door Vi. oo from the x-ray room in' the Clevtland clinic, where the first ex- plosion occurred yesterday, had been left open, state fire wardens inves- tigating the tragedy announced today. The warden's statement read: "The fire door leading to. the room where the celluloid x-ray plates were stored" and where the first explosion occur= red had been left open. If this door had been closed the disaster might have been averted." A Pitiful Quest Cleveland, May 16.--~Through the long hors of the night a line of anx- (Continued on Page 5) 3 Women Votes Affect Election Polling Hours May Be Ex« tended Because of Summer Time (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) London, May 16.--Fewer election results are expected on polling night, May 30, than in former years, be cause of the huge increase in the els ectorate caused by the enfranchise ment of all women over 21 years of age. There will be millions more votes to country, and those results that are announced on election night will be later than hitherto. Furthermore, as this is a 'summer time" election the polling hours: may be extended in some boroughs in the, industrial divisions." And this is a further reason why the authorities in| many constituencies may postpone the! counting of the ballots until May 31 STEAMER GROUNDS BUT IS REFLOATED ~Sault Ste. Marie, May 16. + The steamer Edward. C. Frick of th Pittsurgh . Steamship Company, whieht went aground at Point Ev ron, 30 miles miles below the Soo, was released this morning obou 9.30 o'clock, In local shipping. circles the ground is attributed to the closing] of 14 of the 16 gates of the com pensating dam here yesterd: morning, resulting in the lowering of the level of the St. Mary's Rives below the rapids by about a footy XN 4)

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