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"All the It Is News" : Fyblid ot Samar Our liieh Every VOL. 5--NO. 40 : AR EN A I " News in Brief (By Canadian Press) Miners Killed Kattowitz, Poland, -- Sixteen miners were killed yesterday in a fire-damp 'explosion- in the Wille brand coal mines, it was reporte here. Three bodies have been ~e- covered. + x. % Norwich Mayor Invited Woodstock.--The village of Norwich is extending an invitation to H. P. Gowen, Lord Mayor of Norwich, England, to visit the Ox- ford community. He is now on a visit in the United States. x % * . Auto Victim Succumbs Windsor.--Mrs. Pauline Kluesin- ski, 53 of Hamtramck, who was in- jured in an automobile accident Wednesday, near Old Castle, died yesterday in Hotel Dieu. Her daughter and another girl received fatal injuries in the same mishap. * * Ends His Life Kaitowitz, Poland.--The Polish heavyweight prizefighter, Kupka, was found shot dead here today. He was disqualified in a bout at Beuthen yesterday and Is believed to have committed suicide as a result of disappointment. LJ Cadet Instructor Resigns St. Catharines.--Jack Montague, for the past six years chief in- structor of the St. Catharines sea cadets, has been appointed physical instructor of the London Technical school, Instructor Boucher of To- ronto will take charge of the local sea cadets on August 23. » 25 People Land in Ditch Vancouver, B.C.--Stung in the eye by a bee, W. Cameron, driver of a B.C. Transportation company bus carrying mesly 25 Passengers, lost control of his car near od- ward's El od and the bus landed in the ditch, Sev- eral passengers were injured. * Five Children Lose Lives Concord, N.H.--Five children were burned to death in a fire which destroyed the home of Mar- shall French here last night, Four of them, ranging in age from 1 to 14 years were the children of Mr. and Mrs French, and the fifth was George Mercer, aged 14, a visitor. = $8,000 Loss in Barn Fire Milton.--Fire of unknown origin completely destroyed the barn and contents, including 25 tons of hay, implements and a number of chick- ens belonging to Ernest Wheeler on his farm, Fourth Line, Esques- 'ing Township, The loss, which is estimated at aboilit $8,000, is part- ly covered by, insurance. Meet Next in Windsor Vancouver. -- Windsor was chosen as the eonvention city for 1931 for the Sons of England Benevolent Society of Canada and Newfoundland at the session yes- terday afternoon, The biennial con- vention of the organization, In session in this city since Tuesday will close today. Man Has Foot Crushed Toronto.--Thomas Goddard, 26 McCaul street, was admitted to St. Michael's hospital last night suf- fering a crushed left foot. The in- jury was caused by a heavy weight Goddard was lifting falling on his foot. The bones were crushed by the impact and there is a.possibil- ity of the foot being amputated. * Hold Theatre Owner Los Angeles.--Municipal Judge Leonard Wilson yesterday held Alexander Pantages, millionaire theatre owner, for trial in Super- jor court on chargse of attacking 17-year-old Eunice Pringle in his private office a week ago. The judge's decision was given after three days of preliminary hearing. * * 0% Would Raise Liquor Tax Windsor.--Alderman Dr. Percy Gardner of East Windsor, who is to be a speaker in Toronto next month at the annual session of the Ontario Municipal association, said today he would urge adequate fin- ancial relief to hospitals by the imposition of an additional pro- wincial tax on beverages of high alcoholic content with special at- tention to imported liquors. * 0% Samuel Ryckman Dead Freeport, N.Y.--Samuel Cana- dian parliament ,died yesterday at his home here. He was 80 years old. 'In 1891 Mr, Ryckman was elected as a Conservative to the Dominion house of commons and gerved several years in parliament as a representative of Hamilton, Ont. Interment will be at Hamil- ton, his former home. * » * Poctors Named at Ottawa Ottawa.--Nine physicians are to act as voluntary consultants in diagnosis of infantile paralysis cases in Ottawa and surrounding areas. Necessity of diagnosis so that serum may be administered pefore paralysis set in, and fear of a September increase is preval- ence of the disease are quoted as reasons for naming the consult- ants. WEATHER Pressure is high over the At. lantic and northwestern states and lower over northern Onta- rio. A few light showers have occurred in the northern dis- tricts of Ontario, Quebec ahd Manitoba, while elsewhere the weather has been fair. Forecasts: Tower lake region--Moder- ate south winds, fair and warm. Sunday --- Moderate winds, mostly fair and warm, probably a few scattered thun- der showers. and BOD " atly Times Succeeding The Oshawa Daily Reformer el oF N : M OSHAWA, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1929. . R. BECKWI 15 Cents a Week TH IS FOUND ;: 3Cents a COMPROMISE PHILIP SNOWDEN REJECTS OFFERED BY OTHER CREDITOR NATIONS Mr. Snowden Said that in- stead of Sixty per cent. It Purported to Offer, He had Discovered it made Avail- able only Twenty per cent. INACCEPTABLE TO BRITISH GOVERNMENT Feeling Around Hotel des In: dies Indicates the Inevit- able Breaking up of the Conference (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) The Hague, Netherlands, Aug. 17. --Rtem. Hon. Philip Snowden, Bri- tish Chancellor of the Exchequer, told the other creditor nations at the reparations conference today that if they cannot offer something substan- tial toward Great Britain's requests, there is no use going on with the con- ference. Rt. Hon, Philip Snowden, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, today refused the compromise offer of France, Italy, Belgium and Japan to allow Great Britain an increased share of German reparations. The British Chancellor claimed it was in- sufficient to satisfy his government. The chief delegates of the four creditor governments aligned against Great Britain decided as soon as they received Mr. Snowden's reply to their proposals to meet at noon and de cide what further action to take, The offer refused was that made yesterday by the four governments seek to satisfy British demands for return to the Spa percentages for division of German reparations and other minor concessions, The four governments acted in an attempt. to avert British withdrawal from the conference here on application of the Young reparations plan. Mr. Snowden in his refusal to con- sider the compromise further said that instead of the 60 per cent of British claims it purported to offer, he upon examination had discovered it made available only. 20 per cent, which, he said, was utterly inaccept- able to his government. SOVIET CAVALRY AND GUNS IN ACTION Artillery Bombardments are Followed by Cavalry Charges (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Peiping, China, Aug. 17.=Official Chinese reports today said 700 Soviet cavalrymen were repulsed yesterday afternoon in a vigorous attack on Jalainor, a station on the Chinese Eastern Railway 22 miles south of Manchuli. Both sides suffered casu- altics in dead and wounded. The Soviet troops were supported by heavy artillery fire, the Chinese garrison resisting with rifle fire and machine guns. Twelve Russian dead were left on the field. Four Chinese were killed and two officers, six soi- diers, and ten civilians wounded. The Russians remained on Chinese soil a- bout three hours. Another official message from Mukden said that after a heavy bom- bardment by artillery Soviet cavalry yesterday attacked the Chinese de- fense line at Meiyaotze, near Man- chuli and 12 miles from the border. The fighting was said to be contin- uing. i WILL VISIT AMERICA Lord Derby, famous sportsman peer, who is planning a trip to America ir the near future. He has not visited this side of the ocean for 36 years.-- Copyright, 1929, Pacific and Atlantic Photos, Inc. LINDSAY GIRL DIES IN ROAD ACGIDENT Instantly Killed When Peter- boro' Car Overturns In Ditch Lindsay, Aug. 17.=--Miss Grace Scott, 18 .years old, of 14 Melbourne street, Lindsay, was instantly killed late last night when a car in which she was riding overturned in a ditch at Graham's Corners on the Oakwood Highway. Vernon Beavis, 20 years old, of 184 River street, Peterboro, driver of the car, sustained cuts to the head, while Harold Hollingsworth of Peterboro, and Miss Mildred Ash- more and Miss Mary Gossien, Lind- say, escaped uninjured. Beavis and Hollingsworth drove down from Peterboro last night to attend the summer carnival here. At the carnival they met the three girls and took them for a drive to Oak- wood, eight miles west of Lindsay. On the return trip the car failed to make a curve in the road and turned gre in the ditch. An inquest will be held, AUSTRALIA NOT T0 ABOLISH RIGHT OF APPEAL TO GOUNCL Hon. Stanley Bruce Points to Quebec Province as Example Cranberra, Australia, Aug. 17.-- Australia does not intend to take any action to abolish its'right of appeal to the judicial committee of the Imperial Privy Couneil in Lon- don, declared Rt. Hon. Stanley Bruce, Prime Minister today. The premier was discussing reports from London that the British Gov- ernment was willing to permit any dominion to abolish the right of appeal if it so desired, as exempli- fled by the recent request of the Irish Free State. Premier Bruce said the matter had been discussed at the last im- perial conference, when there was a diversity of opinion owing to the different viewpoints of the various dominions and even of the differ- ent sections of each dominion. An example was Quebee, the Prime Minister pointed out, that province regarding as an insult any proposal to withdraw its right of appeal to the privy council. In Australia the rights of the states as well as of the Common- wealth itself must be considered. When the federation was establish- ed an endeavor was made on behalf of the Commonwealth to excluae the right by.a commonwealth bill, but the present position represent- ed a compromise. FIREMAN DROWNED NEAR STONY CREEK Punt Containing Hamilton Man Goes Down in Lake Hamilton, Aug, Hope, well known fivepin bowler and a member of the Hamilton Fire Department, was drowned in Lake Ontario last night 'about 830 o'clock, off. Cherry Beach, which is northeast of Stony Creek, and his body was not recovered. They set out in a small flat- bottomed boat and bad got between 150 and 200 yards from shore when the craft began to fill with water and was submerged. Bofh men were partly dressed. Hope wearing a heavy sweater over his bathing suit, and Sullivan a bathrobe. Hope proceeded to swim for shore and had gone about thirty-five yards, it is said when Sullivan called to him that he could not swim. Hope is then said to have turned and stroked back toward the punt to assist Sullivan, When Hope was within ten yards of the sinking craft, he got in distress, sank, and drowned. It is bslieved he was seized with cramps. as the water is said to bave heen cold. Sullivan clung to the craft and was rescued finally by Kenncth Mor- ris, aged 15, of 28 Ieinster Avenue, whose parents hove a summer home at Cherry Beach. He ~oon recovered. : 9 17.--Hugh fim. but. Paton; tig Hlleged, onme:) Body of Victim Recovered | MRS. ROBERT Oshawa on the evening of July 31, and whose body was found on the BECKWITH a 7 Who was drowned in the lake' of |lake shore near Bowmanville yester day afternoon, Toronto, Ont., Aug. 17.--Search by the police has failed to reveal any traces of the bandits who captured a pay roll on the streets of Toronto yesterday, Attempts to follow the trail by means of the green car used in the robbery have so far been fruitless. Police Fail to Find Any Trace of Toronto Bandits Three robbers escaped in a green touring car with $2,500 yesterday morning after assaulting and robbing D, C. Patton, office manager of the Sangamo Electric Company, who was returning from the bank with the firm's weekly pay roll. Stop Alleged Auto Speeder Stratford.--Jack Paton, London motorist, is accused of driving his car through Mitchell at a speed of 56 miles an hour, Constable Mott stepped out into the road to stop on toward Stratford. Mott succeed: ed in reading the first three num- hers on the license plate, and tele- phoned police here. Paton was in Police Headquarters here 18 minutes later. Children Are Burnt to Death (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Concord, N.H., Aug. 17.--Four children three of them under five years of age, were burned to death here late last night, A fifth, sis- ter of three of the others and daughter of Marshall French, truck driver, was in a critical condition at the Margaret Pillsbury Hospital. French, himself, was at the same institution in a critical condition from burns received when he ai- tempted to save the children, Graf Zeppelin Nears Typhoon Moscow, Aug. 17.--Radio despatch- es from Tobolsk today said the Graf Zeppelin at 9 am, 2 am, EST.) was flying at 85 east longitude, 60 north latitude at about 3,000 feet al- titude. . Russian aviators who met the ship from Tobolsk said its speed was reduced. The position wasdabout 250 miles due north at Tomsk. Friedrichshafen, Germany, Aug, 17. --Uncertain weather conditions and possibility of the Graf Zeppelin's en- countering a typhoon as it neared Japan were reported here today in advices from Tokio. The Zeppelin works' radio station has listened constantly to messages from the Graf the most plain being to Irkutsk and Turuchansk. Speed Boat Hits Three Missing Charles Lipe, Millionaire, Wife and Pilot Believ- ed Drowned (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Alexandria Bay, N.Y., Aug. 17, -- Search continued here through the night and morning for the bodies of W. Charles Lipe, Syracuse million- aire manufacturer, his wife and Ford Dodge, his pilot, believed drowned as their speed boat crashed into a pleasure boat in mid-channel of the St. Lawrence river last night. The Lipe craft, the "Giggle," smashed into the excursion -boat, "Thousand Islander," about a mile from here, at full speed. Persons on the larger boat saw the Giggle go down almost immediately after the collision, The Thousand Islander, slightly crippled, raced with its 50 passengers shoreward and beached on a ledge six feet under the river sur- face. The excursion boat, said its cap- tain, Devilla Rogers, was returning from a trip to beauty spots of the immediate vicinity and was lighted in all parts, with its searchlight gleaming, at the time. Lipe's speed- ing craft rounded Cherry Island and plowed into the bow of the pleasure boat, imbedding its number plate in- to the bigger vessel. Lipe and his party were bound for the Thousand Island. Yacht Club from their summer home on Nemah- bin 'Island, which they owned. Syracuse, N.S, Aug. 17. -- W. Charles Lipe, believevd to have per- ished with his wife and their pilot last night in a collision of his speed boat and an excursion boat, in the St. Lawrence River, inherited a large portion of a fortune of more than $5,000,000 from his father, Willard C. Lipe, one of the leaders of the Gear' industries of Syracuse, who died Sept. 4, 1924. Claim Egyptian Trouble Hits General Motors DESPATCH, HOWEVER NOT UNDERSTOOD BY H. A. BROWN No Instructions Received To Curtail Schedules of Cars For Egypt London, Aug. 17.--An alarmist cable regarding the situation in Egypt following proposals for an Anglo-Egyptian treaty has been re- ceived by The Daily Express whose correspondent, C. J. Ketchum, re- ported from Alexandria. "There is general uneasiness in the country, and foreigners are the principal sufferers. This fact Is borne out in the case of the Gen- eral Motors Company, the whole of whose staff of collectors have re- signed this week in a body rather than go into the interior again av the risk of their lives." The despatch continues: 'No more devastating blow to British influence and British prestige gen- erally in the near East has ever been threatened by the British Gov- ernment than that embodied In proposals for the treaty." Not Affected Here "I cannot understand from this cable, just what the correspondent means," said H. A. Brown, vice- president of General Motors of Can- ada, when interviewed by The Times this morning: ** oral Mo- tors has not art ot bib Egypt, the only staff of any size would be a sales organization. We have received mo word from Gen- eral Motors - Export... Company to curtail any g¢hedules for Egypt, so I hardly think that our sales staff in that country has been affected." General Motors of Canada was recently allotted the production of all Chevrolet cars for the Egyptian trade, so that any factors affecting the Egyptian market would direct- ly affect the Canadian Company. General is Boiled in Oil (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Calcutta, India, Aug. 17.--~Re- bellious Hazara tribesmen in Afg- hanistan were said here today to have captured an Afghan General and to have boiled him and his staff in oil. The tribesmen inflicted two sev- ere defeats on Habibullah Khan at Sarchasma, 30 miles north of Ka- bul, where they captured a large amount of ammunition. Sixty- Year-Old Man is Hanged James Alderman Killed Two Coast Guardsmen in Gun ; Battle (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Fort Lauderdale, Fla, Wwg. 17. --James Horace Alderman, 60 year old rum runner, was hanged early today in a seaplane hangar at the coast guard base here for the slaying of two coast guards- men in a gun battle on the high seas two years ago. Alderman walked calmly to the ' scaffold with a prayer on his lips, showing no sign of faltering, A i -- -- ® © = St. John, N.B., who, as 'a last- minute entry, saved the so-called weaker sex from being entirely missing from the prize meet of Dominion Rifle Association MISS MAViS DOWNEY Connaught Ranges, Ottawa. .Miss Downey made 31 in the McDoug- all cup challenge meet competing -------- This score registered under diffi- cult conditions, .was considerable better than sofne score turned in at | against finest Canadian marksman. | hr 1000 Riales tanm. } 'Conference at Hague Likely to Break Up Deadlock BODY OF OSHAWA WOMAN DROWNED ON JULY 31st IS FOUND NEAR BOWNANVILLE KINGSTON BOY RUN | OVER BY STREET GAR Wilbur Elliot was Playing With Companions on Car Tracks Kingston, Ont., Aug. 17.--WIl- bur Elliott, ten-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Elliott of this city, died in the hospital here this morning about ten-thirty o'clock, as the result of injuries received when he was run over by a street car here last evening. The boy was playing with com- panions on a Montreal street mot very far from the Canadian Na- tional Depot and while they were crossing the car tracks it is thougut by the other lads in the party that young Elliott did not see the on- coming street car. The boy was carried along a short distance on the fender of the car and then ap- parently kicked himself free, but one leg was caught under the wheels of the car and almost sev- ered. He suffered greatly from shock and loss of blood, as well as internal injuries. He failed to rally this morning. fARMY EXERCISES TO BEGIN NEXT WEEK AT PETAWAWA CAMP Over a Thousand Officers and other Ranks to Take Part (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Ottawa, Ont, Aug. 17.=Over a thousand officers and other ranks comprising a large proportion of the permanent force of Canada will take part in tactical exercises to be held in Petawawa camp next week. During the final week of training, which commences on Monday, the number of troops in camp will be in- creased with squadrons of the Royal Canadian Air Force co-operating with the ground troops in combined excr- cises and other units of specialists taking part. A distinctive feature of this ycar's manoeuvres will be the use of mod- ern six-wheeled mechanical transport vehicles for drawing the guns with which the medium batteries are arm- ed, These vehicles have already been utilized in the camp during the annual training of the non-permanent active militia batteries. Heavy motor trucks, specially 'designed and manufactured under a British war office patent in England, have, it is stated by experts, placed the medium batteries armed with 60-pounder guns, in the "mo- bile" class of artillery units, so eas- ily are the heavy pieces of ardnance transported over the roughest ground. LITTLE THEATRE EXECUTIVE MEETS Interesting Plays are Chosen For the Coming Season * The six members of the Execu- tive of the Little Theatre, who were elected at the annual meeting in May, met last evening and dis- cussed plans for the coming year. They also took steps to complete the Executive, which calls for six other members. The plays chosen for the sea- son were talked over and the work this year promises to be very ine teresting. No doubt those who took part in the Little Theatre work last year are anxious for it to start again, and it is hoped that there will be many new members. BODY COMING HERE The body of Gordon French, former well known Oshawa man who was killed in an accident at a lumber camp near Tacoma, Washington, is being shipped to Oshawa and will probably arrive here on Tuesday, according to ins formation received by his father. Wm. H, French, 10 Rosehill Boulevard. The deceased had been working in the camp and was al- most instantly killed by a falling tree, The funeral arrangements will he annannead later. 3 b Body Was Washed Up on Shore at Darlington Beach and Was Discovered there Yesterday Afternoon by Camper From Toronto BELIEVE STORM HAD WASHED UP BODY, Only One of the Four Vics tims of Lake Drowning Tragedy Still Missing -- Little Likelihood That In« quest Will be Held The body of Mrs. Robert with, young Oshawa woman erly residing at 7 William east, who has been missing since' the night of Monday, 31, when she went boating off Lakes view Park Beach in company with her mother Mrs. Edwin Gomme, her infant child, and Walter Stape- ley, of 18 Queen street, was found on the shore of the lake near Dar- lington Beach yesterday afternoon, about four o'clock. The body had been washed up on the beach and was noticed by John Bland of To- ronto, a camper in the vicinity, ag he was strolling along the shore. Bland immediately ran. to nearést farmhouse whieh ! | to be only a short distance™ from the spot, but is exceedingly hard to reach due to the steep cliffs along the shore. Bland phoned, from the farmhouse which belonged to N. W, Blackburn, and which ig about a half mile west of No. 3 schoolhouse and at the lakefront, to the Chief of Po. lice at Bowmanville who notified the Oshawa department and then, went down to the scene of the discovery. Shortly after Bland made his dis- covery and had gone to phone, Ine spector W, Stringer of the Criminal Investigation Department of the On- tario Provincial Police along with (Continued on 1-~7e 2) ABANDON SEARCH "FOR LOST WOMAN Believe Alvina Girwood Wandered Into Swamp Becks form« street (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Brockville, Ont, Aug. 17.--~The search for Alvina Girwood, 83 year old woman, from Easton's Corners, lost somewhere in the district sur rounding her home, was virtually abandoned today, when it was thought that she had wandered into an extensive swamp bordering on the bushland where a posse of nearly 100 men has searched for two days. Belief that the aged woman had entered the swamp was based on the finding of a small pile of twigs near the edge of the bush, where it was thought she had endeavored to make a fire while waiting for other mem- bers of the berry picking party from whom she became separated. Proposes to Raise Duty Washington, D.C. --The senate finance committee today proposed to raise the duty on maple sugar 125 per cent. Canada exported $1,312,000 worth of maple sugar to the United States in the fiscal year 1929, The present duty is 4 cents a pound, the house tariff bill proposed to raise the rate to 71% cents, the senate committee proposes it be 9 cents. GETS GRAIN BOARD POST Hon. H. C. Hamilton, been appointed 'to We Domed