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i The Oshawa Daily Times Succeeding The Osh awa Daily Reformer A Growing Newspaper in a Growing City OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1929 15 Cents a Week; 3 Cents a Copy. TWELVE PAGES News in Bed (My Canadian P more Ot hn evidonico to WArrant an ane Lo Judge O'Conn 4 in shunt rr mst court, yesterday ton _Goldaioia, eharksd yy os 4 Voto on Annexation OPORLO Toast York council yesterday passed o bilay ordering a. vote by the residents of the township on the question of an- , nexation to the eity on January 1, Germany | Prussis, group of 40 4 of ald dar man stock land of thelr tathors a gd tions of farming in bro central Russia, pra te te ho ' Alberta. Conl Moving Winalpeg.r=Boveral trains load- od with = Alberta coal passe through Winnipeg for Ontario last n , This Is under the new ar. rahe for the $0.75 per ton rate, \ » Ld w Boarch Delayed St. Folieine,---Snow today fur ther delakeq hy effort to ek word of W, Cunnon and L., Lis olfe, the two Curtiss-Reld Alrways' ts Whe have heen missing from ligation since October 0, LJ LJ Ld Peterbvoro,--W, C, homuson, middle-aged organist of a local church, was committed for trial yasterday on a charge of serious offence against a young girl, Pail was sot at $0,000, LJ Ld L Drinking Fatal Pault Bte., Marie, Ont,-Two mon are dead and a number Are seriously 111 at the Carpenter | Hixon Company seamp at Aubrey Falls, 82 milos back of Dean Lake, allegedly the result of drinking wood alechol, ' % . Huntor Return Sault Ste, Marie, Ont-=Glen Sundstrom and Prue Watson, the two Herachmont hunters who had been missing In the bush since Nov. 28, when they set out) to shoot a deer on the last day of the season, made their way into Searchmont late [Sunday night, by Train ith injuries to his Sljont and hip, sus 4 on ek by a train in the Yards at the foot of Meorge street, David Jamieson, 81, of 38 Gordon street, ai admitted to the Western hos- | late yesterday in a critical condition, Safe "Toront 0, we 4 Narvvow Bault Ste, are Gut-Opt, n MeKex of \She Thessalo edn, cape from tle Rsv in taking one ® out of the tug John Mo ugh the He wl' he slipped from the lcy deck fell ite, Hy pr tun after a Bitter battle $y cald d lee, hf LY Bolt outfit when pom wih a_ bathing iM WE 8! oh, yxy but when buts On a wedding gown she ans business, FEAR ICE JAM AT THE SAULT Low Temperature Causes Ice to Jam in } Channel { Sault Ste, Marie, Ont, Deo, 8.== rine olrcles are very much wore today over the proapect of a htening up of {ce (n the lower , where floating loe and slush vo jammed the rodk outs and dike, making it well nigh im ble for steamers to pass. Tugs foh have worked strenuously in d river have permittea the down. d oraft thus far to pass, but meroury neared sero again last ht with a consequent Apength: ng of the foe, nere the el | has been opened the ioe ia not deep but the slush Is packiug and {n some canes is reported be 12 Teet deep, There are Il some 60 up the inks d indloatious are, it the presen ther holds, that at Tons Bom tome a the freese up, hier 00, of the Paterson line, which | aground on middle ground in | upper St. Mary's river late rday afternoon, 'while down d with grain, was released yesterday atternom, coming n to the Boo, D ------ WEATHER | gab EEE high over alle Wa FEE Takes eastward, while oe ki the weather has Eben fair and wilder in Sass Kaishewan and Abert Forecasts: wor ree ey Moderate to Teesh' oy Hwest to west windst J tlowd and with Noon) nowt ny. and fied. | MON erate do fresh weatevly -- Swmortly rlondy and cold today ane Wednesday with local Ei BE: Sh SE a'| Hoover Asks F For Speedy End of Tariff Controversy and More Effective En- forcement of Prohibition SPEEDY REDUCTION IN TAXES SOUGHT President Lays Down Pol: icles Calculated to Im- prove Business Conditions in the United States (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Washington, Dec. 3~A speedy ond to the tariff controversy, prompt tax reduction und strengghening of prohibition enforcement were urge pon congress today by President oover in his first memuge on the state of the unions A score of other proposals were contained in a twelve thousand word document. which, the chief executive sent to the house and senate for reading by .the clerks und In which he gave an account of his nine months stewardship In the White House, Most of the message was a plain, matter-of-fact reqital of what he has done and hopes to do, but he resorts ed to strong language in dealing with prohibition and law enforcement, a subject which he frequently has stegssed since taking office, Calling for co-operation of the ave erage citizen in making the statutes uffective, the president said that the attitude of the man who selects the particular laws he will Soap 'may oh scure, but cannot conceal, the ugly ruth that the Tawbreaker, Whoeve € may be the enemy of soc Jot Mr, Hoover stood sou uarely on the position he took at the opening of the special session hen he asked for 'sates b 0 agriculture and to industries which yh not been prosperous and put into official lang. uage his known desire for a one per cont reduction on individual income and corporation taxes, Once hog asked that the broad prinel the flexible tariff, by which t . execu» tive Shas order rate changes upon res dation of the tariff commis- ™ "ha tained, The se The senate has yoted | C. at power 'should lodge with ross, resident Hoover's suggestions, which it followed, would give the senate and house many lssues for (Continued on page 10) a -- CHICAGO ASKS FOR EXTENSION Wants Adequate Supply Pending Decision in Legal Battle ashington, Dee. Dee. $=Th Chicago sania intrict t laced before eting- tary of War Hurley a request or an axienslon of the ar apartment's lowing . trict to Hag cu et of water per second from Lak gan for sanitation Purposes, liam Beebe, ho was sekembanied A te ngen and Glenn, of no hy plained that the enon i ie od in order that an Arends suppl iyo war pen ughes, 2 ing an Gutéone o ent nit will hat the, oe this month and ht gh the il "1 oud Dk oth gh yal m os' ; jon to public, CONE WIN BRITISH ELECTION England, Dee, ~The nt were Victorias Yester rh io of Warwikkybire. ahd Sa Arthur Staeh Muth Bs Soret servative minister of r ected, He Had a Whajority of 773 over hs Labor opponent, Horwill, The vol a a t land, 20,495; Hi Red als tn re Pine Tests at the Forest Products Foy hay Depart. va shown As ok Ble doo does Where a tre Lakidy Se yud de- velo! to viable decomposition of the wood, the strength ia of course affected, d | plies to each, WATER POWERS EDISON DISCOVERS NEW RUBBER PLANT Aged Inventor Admits He Has Made Important Discovery (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) West Orange, N.J.,, Dee, 8, Thomas A. Edison, in one of his characteristically laconic inter. views, has disclosed the discovery of a plant that will produce rub ber on wu profitable basis, A series of questions was sub- mitted to the aged inventor at his Inboratory and he wrote brief re- Ho was asked: "Haws you found one plant or mors which will pro- duce a satiufactory amount of rub ber for commercial purposes?' He nnswered with the mingle word "Yeu" Australia Fights Cancer The Federal Ministry of Austral- fo has started a fight on canoer, and has pirchased 10 grammes of radium, valned at $660,000, The radium has been placed in the Unie versity of Melbourne, where an at- tempt will be made to determine the cause and cure of cancer, The death rate from cancer In Australs Ia has inereaspd by B5 por cent in | Ba the last 27 yeurs, 8 Mae ep in Toronto V.C,'s Return from Re-union Dinner otographs here show, (8) J. Holland, V.C,, Cobalt; (8) Capt. 4. ¥. Kerr, V.(,, Toron- and (4) BSergt Major Colin ng be oronto, who wri. | rly today on their return from the Prince of Wales' reunion dinner In London, Eng. land, Tho trio were enthusiastic about thelr reception in the - country and declare the a wonderful nuccous, red ™ HAD WONDERFUL TRIP, BUT GLAD TO BE HOME AGAIN happy after thelr long trip they nee vory plad, so they say, to be home again, (1) Canadian V.A'.'s doit on A rmiie Stilo ov as wreaths, {.5. COASTGUARD CREW 1S MISSING No Report From Men Who Went to Rescue of Stranded Ship y-- Kingston, Dee, 8.--Information was received here this afternoon that the United Htates const guards who left Oswego yesterday to go to the assistance of the mtricken Patterson line steamer Sdrniados, at the Main Duck Islands, are missing, It is thought, however, that they may have put in at the {slands for shelter, The tug Salvage Prince sel out this morning to render ald to the Sarnfadoc, which, according to un~ confirmed reports, has broken in two, Safe At Prescott Brockville, Deo, 8.--None the worse for thelr experiences when steamer Sarniadoo went aground and was wrecked at Main Duck Is- Jand In Lake Ontario on Sunday the crew of that vessel, 18 in num- ber, reached Prescott early teday. Although the Sarniadoe hroke up under the onslaught of the gale, the men were rescued by the col- ler Valley Camp which stood by until the sea abated. An ounce of prevention is also worth a pound of remorse, Trade of Canada for the 12 months ended July 31, 1929, totalled $2 , an incrense of $328,721, over the total of the previous year, Toronto, Dee, 3-Great Lakes naviga lon was wining its struggle against storms and cold last nk t, radually righting itself after four ds of disaster and tragedy, The has been cath list in hee days 'confined to five lives, The 20 men of the crew of the steamer Sarnladoe, hard aground on Yuin Duck Island, 26 miles north of | vo y, Were taken off the stranded wip ln carly evening after a 36-hour Ayhii ng off zero temperatures, My 4 3- nous waves, and starvation, They were rescued by coastguards and the crew of the steamer Valley Camp, which had stood by the Sar- Nladoe since the time she ran aground on Sunday morning, oo of the wreck of the Kiows int Au Sauble in Lake Supers lor, reveal that the captain and four of his men are dead and 18 others Fedcund, The ship's cargo of flax- Yeod, valued at more than a quarter illion dollars, is a total loss and the lies almost submerged on the rocks, only her ios house showing Her captain died a hero, losing his life in efforts to help his crew save theirs, All ships on the lakes were bee lieved accounted for ut 8 o'clock last bop and movement of traffic had nn agaip, In the upher fakes, hters which looked like castles oy ice were loading and moving out of port awain in the face of peril and terrible hirdshing in efforts to rush cargoes of grain from the head of the lakes to lower lake ports, I a. oi Increase Made In Ford Wages Minimum Rate Has Raised To Seven Dollars a Day Detroit, Mich, Dee, 3.--Wage increases that will add app ' mately $20,000,000 a year to payroll of the Ford Motor pany were announced today by Ed- sel Ford, President of the com- pany. The minimum wage of $6 a day is increased to $7 a day and increases graduating on the baais of five cents an hour were given employes already receiving be tween $7 and $10 a day, The increase, which in effective an of Dee, 1, 1s confined to em ployes within the United States, Miners To Honor' Leader Miners of Scotland ave to honor Robert Smillie, the father of unions fam in that country, to show their appreciation of his wervices auring the last 60 years. They will con. tribute to a testimonial, according to plans made at the recent annu- al conference of the National Union of Scottish Mineworkers, which was held at Glasgow, Rescuers Save Sailors From Stranded Steamer New Battle For Votes Divided On Daylight Saving Toronto, Dee. ¢. J=Seven Ontarlo cities alerts whinitted the ques tion daylight saving to the elec toh, Galt, Kitchener and Brantford ed in avon. of the system while Chatham Belleville, Sarnia and Stratford turned it down, in most cases by a decisive vote, Big Shortage In World Wheat Figures Indicate There Will (Be Keen Demand For Canada's Surplus Toronto, Dee, J--~In a special de- spatch from Winnipeg the Mail and mpire today reports George Mclvor, no sales manager of the Cana- fan Wiest Pool, as disclosing a dif- ference of 62,000,000 bushels between the world's export surplus of wheat and the import requirements, Tha available EL 1 for export is eatis mated at 000,000 bushels, and the import requirements at 770,000,000, hs difference must be made up out of the normal carry over represents ing the wheat usually held over afs ter domestic requirements have been met, The exhaustion of 'present world surplus outside of Canada would still leave a balance for @port from Cans ada of 286,000,000 'bushels whereas only 224,000,000 bushels are available in Canada for export, according to Been |the figures, The inference is, that if the figures are even reasonably correct, Canadian wheat is due for a pronounced bu market before the end of the year, Judge Ross Dies Toronto,~Honor Donald Ross of Barrie, senior judge of the county of Simcoe, died yesterday in Toronto General Hospital where he had been a patient since Thanksgiving, Canton Starts London, Dee, &#.~-An. exchange telegraph despatoh from Hong Kong today sald fighting for poss Jession of Canton was under way, with the first batches of wounded Just arriving in the city, The re- volting "Ivonsides' were sald o be engaging the Cantonese on the Juikitng while Kwangsites ware fighting the Cantonese on the AWARD BELL $25 DAMAGES LIBEL CASE Article in Times Reporting Flooding of Rink Caused Suit WHITBY ASSIZES Case Heard Twice--Jury at Previous Trial Failed to Agree Nominal damages of $35 were awarded John J. Bell, plaintitf,, ot Oshawa, by a Bupreme Court jury this morning in an action for libel brought against the Mundy Print. ing Company, publishers of The Oshawa Dally Times, Kvidence was heard yesterday and argument in the aotion oc oupled the attention of the fall as sinen of the Supreme« Qourt, pre- sided over by Mr, Justice Wright, now in session at Whitby, Bell, who was represented by J, P. Mangan, claimed that he had suffered a libel when an account appeared in the lssue of The Times of Wednesday, January 8th of this year, ocncerning the flooding of the Oshawa Curling rink, The name of Bell was mentioned in the article as caretaker of the rink, and the plaintitt claimed that » reference in the article describing the flooding as an act of vandals associated him with the ocour: renve, The defendants, through thelr counsel, G, D, Conant, submitted that the reference to vandnallam in (Continued on Page 10) '| NEWSPAPER MEN 70 MAKE PROTEST Deputation To See Premier of Quebec Regarding Newsprint Price Sm ---- (By Canadian Proms Lassed Wir) Toronto, Deo, 8.-~At a meeting of the Canadian Datly Newspaper Association here yesterday, a coms mittee of three was named to" ine terview Premier 1, A. Tasoher eau of Quebes on December 4, at Quebeo to hear the protest of the C.D.\NA., against the Joho in oreans in newsprint price from $80 to $60 a ton, W. B, Preston, president of the organization, Arthur Tart ge. {ta manage and Major John 81 Winnlpex, head of the Manitoba Siklang, Shipping on the Bikiang has been held wp, Press, were the trio chosen to meet Mr, Taschereau, British Government In Real Danger of Defeat Three Killed in Crossing Smash Batavia, N.Y, Dee, 3=Three men, all members of an Akron, N.Y, fam- ily, were dead today after their autos mobile was struck by a freight train at a crossing in a snowstorm, The victims were George Barney, 08, his brother, Frank, 63, and his son Hows ard, | Fire Destroys Cargo Steamer Vessel Sinks i. Delaware River With Flames Sweep- ing Its Deck Philadelphia, "Deo. 3.~With ta oargo destroyed by fire, the Hols land-Amerioan Line steamship Bianendijk rested today on the hottom of the Delaware River in 36 feet of water, while firemen continued to fight the flames that swept ita decks, Early today, as the ship Hated to port against its pler and sank at an angle of 26 degrees, the ship's captain, Henry Buhae, eatls mated the damare to the vessel and cargo at $600,000, The ship, a 4,240 ton vessel, was to have sailed from this city yess terday morning, but due to bad weather, Oaptain HBuhse postpens od thes ailing, In the afternoon, smouldering in the cargo of line seed oll, broke out, --------------- TORONTO MAN HELD FOR $280,000 THEFT Buffalo, Deo. 8.-~Clinton Duke, 80, of Toronto, alleged leader of the spven bandita who held up and robbed guests at a society dinner in the home of Edward L, Carson at Snyder, NJXY., of $250,000 in welry on Nov, 14, and Theodore ogaoko, 'another alleged partiols pant in the robbery, are under ar- font hore, it was revealed last night, Newfoundland Crews in Peril St, John's Nildy De Dee, 3A wild sea hg blinding 'blivgard held last t the fate of two-score News land fishermen and sailors, and of the crews of three disabled Nore wegian freighters, The storm threats w sd also the lives of rescuers in pilot boats, tugs and steamers als though the crews of four fishermen hi] snatched from the angry At- Cs (By George "Hambleton, Press Staff Writer) London, Dee, 3The government yesterday had the narrowest escape of the session, For a moment or two, as Conservatives, Liberals and half a dozen Labor members from Glasgow Plled into the division lobby of the ouse of Commong it looked as though the voting on .a motion of closure would result in the govern. ment's defeat, Hut it was sustained by a majority of 13, The house buzzed with excites ment, Labor members looked up anxiously to see whether the governs ment tellers were on the right or the left of the clerk's table, for at Wests minster their position indicates the winning side, As they advanced to the right Labor members cheered loudly, Then the government majors ity was announced as only 13==the lowest of the session--and it was the turn of the opposition to cheer and shout "resign, resign." The vote was in committee on the closure motion by Rt, Hon, Margaret Bondfield, minister of labor, to the first clause of the unemployment ine surance bill, Had the motion been defeated, it would not have been re- garded ps defeat on such a or issue as would involve the resignation It would, how ever, have rendered progress 'of the bill through the house Ouse more difficult, Canadian Is Wheat Monarch Alberta Farmer Wins Title at National Show in Chicago Chicago, Dee, 8.--A 'wheat grower from the foothills ot the Canadian Rockies, Joseph H, B, of the government. Smith, was elected as the wheat || king of the National Hay and Grain Show today, Smith, whose home is at Wolf Creek, Alberta, won the title with his samples of hard red spring wheat which weighed 86,3 pounds to the bushel, LORD WILLINGDON'S SISTER HAS PED London, Deo, 3~Mrs, Edward Ellice, slater of Viscount Willing- don, governor-general 'of Qanad died today. She was the wife Major Edward Charles Ellice, for merly of the Grenadier Guards: and at one time Liberal member of parliament for 8 Andrews Burghs, Before her marriage she was Margaret Georglana Freemans Thomas. Two sons and four r ayghe ters survive, ! nm a Tuvention is the talent of youth, as of wits ~ | social service gh 080 | there {smo th 4 R NNOUNCE WELFARE WORK CAMPAIG Hoover Sends Message to Congress U.S. PRESIDENT MAKES AN APPEAL FOR PRINCIPLE OF FLEXIBILIT Y IN TARIFFS CENTRAL WELFARE WORK AND CHRISTMAS CHEER FUND APPEALS COMBINED Meeting of Associated Wel fare Societies Executive Decides on Appeal for Large Fund to Carry on Work GENEROUS RESPONSE WILL BE NECESSARY Christmas Cheer Committees Will Carry on Its Work in Close Co-operation With the Larger Organization The first regular meeting of the Oshawa Associated Welfare Societies was held last eventing in the office in the Times Building, Ways and means were discussed for the effi- cient handling of the Chistmas Cheer Funds Jd the mate permans ent work of the organization, It was unanimously agreed, with the concurrence of the Committee recently appointed to handle the Christmas Cheer Fund, to make ene general appeal for financial assistance to the citizens, proceeds ito be use for the Christmas Chetr Fmd an the general permanent work of the Associated Welfare Socleties, It is hoped that this appeal will meet wh the hearty response of the peo and funds sufficient to take Rory all needy cases will be placed in the hands of the committee at an early at I 8 Work "The Committee fully realize the ood work which is being done at the present time by the various ibid any way with the wor these separate societies, but to lend the every omDl Malstance. There wil undouk be ma cased, of hard os du ne is he winter wh wil not | he Jrove rr assignable to any organiz olfare society at resent in aration and the Welfare ommittee will have general supers vision over all deserving cases, The underlying principle of the ore fianization is to do away with over« apni ng and unnecessary duplication work and to sce that uo truly needy cases go unrecognized, Last year the citizens donated to the Christmas Cheer Fund a 'sum slightly in excess of $3000.00 for that specific purpose only, As our popus lation is greater and the lg this Winter probably will he greater alse an le appeal is made for prompt libera Jetponte from the citizens generally, Permanent offices have been abe (Continued on id on page 10) WORLD PROTESTS SIBERIAN WARFARE IN STRONG NOTES Notes Sent Out Call Attens tion to Briand-Kellogg 4 Pact Washington, Dee, 3-~The driving force of almost united world opin* fon was concentrated today upén Russia and China to prevent an ops en outbreak of warfare between those nationa and end hostilities along the Siberfan frontier, From Washington Paris, have gone Worded IDetotandum to the Mosg: and Peiping governments reminding : 8 ad the iu Riot e London and orward ster each that treaty it yenounced war as an strunient of policy and asserting t the respect in which they are te held by other countries depends a large are Spon how mitment 1s fulfilled, Such action was taken at the stance of the W 'hington ment, which asked all the ® os and adherents of the Kellogy Jack to urge Russia and na to affect a peaceable settl of their dis ue over the Eastern Railw The response 0 of the nations which the, request was directed spontaneous, the only objection ing from Jinan Japa! Objects Tokyo, Dec 3 Se-The Apap , ernment today decline ive sanction to. the United Sta I ernment's hote to Russia or regarding 'violation of the B Kellogg anti-war pact in Manchu An official statement said Japan not jatend A | note n Sherwin Asockis eat with : Bl $3