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The Osh . mua Daily Succeeding The Oshaiva Daily Reformer dimes A Growi Newspaper in a Growing City OSHAWA, ONTARIO, MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1930 15 Cents a Week; 3 Cents a Copy TEN PAGES . Say Plane Crashed u | Galt--~Shortly after a large aero- lane had passed over . the city, ading apparently. for Toronto, re- ports were received here that it had crashed on a farm on the ninth con- Beverly. Identity of the lane and its pilot has not yet been scertained, | Ld Ww * {Try For Settlement Toronto,~Another effort will be ade today regarding settlement be- ween the local brokers, allegedly caught short of Nickel! Hill Syndi- cates, and the interests, headed by [Harry Lyon, fon of Hon. James yon, M.LA, Sault Ste Marie, who ontro] the available units and to | hom the short sales, were made, » Th Ret: to New York.~Sir Henry Thornton, president of the Canadian" National ailways, plans to leave New York ior Montreal tonight. He has been suffering from a slight injury to his Ileg since he arrived here last week and had to cancel an engagement to speak in New York. He is report- cd to be now practically recovered. | % LJ C. J. Kelly Surrenders Toronto ~Courtland J. Kelly, con- nected with a 'private detective 3feney in Toronto, and wanted in | Hamilton on charges of 'subornation | of perjury and inducing witnesses to commit ' perjury in connection with | the trial of J. J. Charterers Thomp- | son, surrendered to police tdoay. Ed | Comes To Life I Queerctdro, Mex ~A funeral party | here was thrown dnto panic when Jose Lozano "came to life" broke irom his coffin and dashed out of | the cemetery as he was about to be | buried. His friends scattered in all | directions. Many stumbling over tombstones in their haste, Lozano had suffered a cataleptic spell and had been pronounced cad. * * Italians Fight Arabs Tripoll.--Italian troops fought a battle yesterday with Arab tribes- men outside Murzuk. The Arabs fled after a spirited engagement, leaving 50 dead and 24 wounded. Twelve were taken prisoners, am- ] on gthem one chieftain. Italian losses were 18 wounded native sol- | diers. The Italians occupied Mur- | zuk, : * * * Charged With Manslaughter | Toronto.----A charge of mau- | slaughter has been. preferred ag- | Aliat Mrs. Antonia 8. Hestner, of | Oral an Sieve 8 hospital here: yesterday from nitis and septicaemia, Mrs, Berea arrived from Ukrania about two months ago to join her hus- band, who has been working here for the last two Joan. R-100 On Cruise Cardington. England.--The new | British dirigible R-100 started on another cruise today. The dirig- | ible appeared over London at 10 | a.m, In the mist. It took a course along the river, and then over Downing Street where the heads of the, delegates. to the five-power | naval conference were arranging the agenda for the coming meet- ing. * ¥ * Faces Charges in Listowel Toronto, -- H. W, Hubbs and Llewelyn Burlingham, Toronto real estate brokers, who are under sen- tences of seven and two years res- pectively for fraudulent rael estate deals, were taken from the Toronto jail today to Listowel, Ont, where they will face a charge of creating a half million dollar land scheme, which is reported to have left scores of Listowel citizens destitute. wa Arrested For Robbery Winnipeg, Man.~Frank M. Petty, alleged accomplice of James Stewart, sentenced. to. 2 two year. penitentiary term last week on several charges of robebry, was arreSted at Sprague, Man, Saturday. Petty, declared by police to have been the "look-out" man for Stewart, escaped from a police net New Year's morning when the latter was captured attempting to break into a safe in a local store. Petty is charged with the robbery of the safe of the Suburban Tgansit company. PRINCE ARRIVES AT CAPETOWN, S.A. Capetown, Union of South Af- rica, Jan. 20,~The Kenilworth Castle, with the Prince of Wales and his party aboard, arrived here today. All aboard were well, The Prince will remain in Cape- town for a few days before con- tinuing to the interlor of Africa where he will resume the hunt for big game and the tour of Britain's African possessions, interrupted when {illness of his father called him back to England a ago. od U. S. A. Willing For Five-Year Passengers Were Returning to Los Angeles From Week-end Trip to Mexico --Not One Passenger or | Member of Crew Escaped | WAS FLYING LOW | DUE TO THICK FOG Had Been Flying at 200 Feet When Wingtip Snagged | Hillside, Tearing Open Cabin, and Bursting Gas-/ oline Tanks Los Angeles, Calif.,, Jan, 20.-- A 'peculiar weather mystery' was blamed by T.A.T.-Maddux Air Linc officials here today for the crash near San Clemente last night of their tri-motored Ford monoplane which killed 14 passengers and two pilots. Los Angeles, Calif,, Jan. 20--Six- teen charred and ahngled bodies lay in the morgue at Oceanside today as gruesome reminders of the erash of a giant T.A.T.-Maddux air liner while returning to Los Angeles with a ifioup of week-end visitof to Agua aliente, Mexico, The sixteen met a horrible death late yesterday at Oceanside when the transport faftered down out of the sky, plowed a big gash in the earth, borst into flames and became a gaso- fine-fed funeral pyre. No Survivors None of the eight women and eight men aboard the transport lived to tell hte story and all but three were burned beyond recognition. Witnesses, including a Western Express pilot who saw the big liner take its human cargo to a fiery doom, agreed that the ill-fated craft had been fighting against a - thick fog which forced aerial traffic bencath a dangerously low 200-foot ceiling, Others who heard the crash and were struck with horror when they law licking flames hurried to the spot only to find a pile of red hot metal, The great plane, apparently AND FUEL TANKS EXPLODE | GETS 25 YEARS SECOND DEGREE MURDER, CAMDEN Gladys Parks Convicted of Deaths of Two Children Camden, Jan. 20.--Gladys May Parks, convicted of second ree murder end manslaughter for the deaths of the Rogers children, was today, sentenced to 25 years, The children for whose death Miss Parks goes to state prison, were the two youngest of Alan Rogers, of Woodbury, whose wife died in October, 1928, leaving him six children. Miss Parks, who was n first cousin of Rogers' wife, of- fered to raise the children, telling the father that she had married a wealthy man and could properly care for them, The bones of Dorothy were found at National Park and the skeleton of Timothy at Absecon, near At- lantic City. Miss Parks surrend- ered to the pelice. She made a statement that Dorothy died after a light whipping and she hid the body for three weeks before she disposed of it 'at National Park. Timothy, she told the police, died from an accidental fall downstairs. She threw his body in the thicket at Absecon the next day. May Form Government Lisbon, Portugal. -- President General Carmona today asked Gen- eral Domingos Oliverira to attempt to form a cabinet to solve the crisis of several days standing. Previous- ly Senhor Sousa had declined the mandate. Reparations snagging the hillside with a wingtip, (Continued on Page 10) 19,000 ENPLOYEES OF CHICAGO CITY WORK WITHOUT PAY Council Passes for Third Time Economy Bill Twice' Vetoed by Mayor Chicago, Jan..20.--The battle for city economy and the elimina- tion of 'Big Bill" Thompson from leadership of a heretofore success- ful faction of the Republican party, was won by Democrats and oppos- ing Republican aldermen on Satur- day night when they, for the third time, passed over the mayor's veto, the hudget that .he has vetoed twice. Fate of the 473 policemen "dnd 220 firemen who were discharged shortly after the original budget passed barly this month, and sub- sequently reinstated, wd's left in doubt. Several of the minority alder- men sald y would have to be dismissed n because of insufil- cient appropriations, Mayor: Thompson said he "did not: know what would happen" to the men, The Democrats see in the victory the end of Thompson's am- bition to be World Fair's Mayor of Chicagg. City employes--19,000 of them --are working without pay because the mayor and city council have not. agreed on a budget and the eity can borrow no more until the budget is passed. Various officials have figured the city deficit at from $6,000,000 to $13,000,000, but Silas H. Strawn, chairman 'of the citizens' advisory committee, stated on Saturday the total would exceed $24,000,000, President Caldwell of the hoard of education predicts the schools 'will close for a half-million pupils in two months, Already 3,300 schools employes are unpaid for January and 18,000 teachers face a probable payless payday Jan, 24; A $7,000,000 defieit faces the board and its limit of borrowing Plan Adopted Agreement Between Canada and Germany on Enemy Property The Hague, Jan, 20.--The pro- tocol adopting the Young Plan was signed this afternoon at the sec- ond Hague Reparations Conference. The Hague, Jan. 20,---After more than 24 hours of continuous ~ession the committee on non- flerman' reparations finally solved the conflict hetween Hungary and Austria and their reparations cre- ditors today. ! The result was a comhromise to which everyone contributed some- thing and apneared to he satistac- sory to the sleepy and hungry de- lerates, ' Hungary acrees to pay her cred- {tors 18.500,000 wold crowns a year after 1043 until 1966 while Aus- tris. pays 1,000,000 gold erowns a vear during the same period. Ottawa, Jan, 20.--Rapid pro- eress toward a final clean-up by the Canadian Governmnet of its encmy-property problem has been made in the last two months, and it is now officially announced that the agreement between the Cana- (Continued on Page 10) dian and the German clearing of-: | | MAKES MERCY ight-Lieut. F, C. Hi who brought Samm { gerously injured Indian boy, from Fort James, in far north, to Ot. | tawa, by aeroplane. Higgins had previously brough Rev. P. A. Nor- tham, dying English church mis. sionary, from Fort Hope to Sud. bury where doctors saved his life., Assembiy of India Defied | President of Asstinibly Sev- | erely Criticizes Governor- General's Council (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) New Delhi, India, Jan, 20.--~ Orders of the government of India had peen issued in deliberate defl- ance of his own orders, declared J. V, Patel, president of the Legis. lative Assembly of India, at the opening of the assembly today. Instructions of Sir James Crerar, member of the Governor-General"s excutive council, in effect suosti- tuted the authority of the govern- ment of India for that of the chair- man of the Legislative Assembly. Mr. Patel continued. He refused to allow Sir James Crerar to speak on the subject agd ordered all galleries except the press gallery to be cleared. Mr. Patel said a very serious situation had arisen owing to a difference of opinion between the overnment of India and the chief ommissioner for Delhi on one hand, and himself on the other, over a question of control of ad- mission of visitors to the precincts of the assembly, He read a letter from Sir James Crerar which sald the Governon-General in Council had decided the government must take the final responsibility for protective measures, and in which Sir James offered to meet him be- fore the assembly opened. These orders, Mr, Petel continu: ed, were in deliperate deflance of his own orders issued after the watch and ward committee had made their recommendations. He then ordered the galleries cleared and said no further passes would be issued. His action was applaud- ed by the opposition, but {t caused great uneasiness in government circles, particularly his refusal .to allow Sir James to speak. The in- cident will undoubtedly have fur- ther developments. Resent Order For Vaccination Kingston, Jan. 20--Many local citi- zens are protesting the order, issued by the Board of Health on advice of , Dr. J. J. Maloney, District Medical { Officer, that all pupils attending Kingston schools be vaccinated as a preventive against smallpox. There are no cases of smallpox in the city or vicinity. | Fl | | His Majesty the Montreal, Jan. 20.--~While the order of speakers has not been de- finitely decided) His Majesty the King will deliver the first address at the opening of the Naval Dfs- armament Conference in St. James' Palage, London,' on Tuesday. His address will be broadcast by radio around sthe world, according to E A. Weir, director of the Canadian National Railways" radio depart. ment, 'which is taking 'a leading part in tho broadcast on this side of the Atlantic. 'The King will be followed by the Prime Minister, Right Hon, J. Ramsay MacDonald, and then by reprasentatives of the five powers and of the Dominions. Col, Rals- power has been reached. ton, Canadian Minister of National To British Empire Tomorrow . King Speaks Defense, will probably be the firs. speaker for the latter, His Maj. esty's address will begin at 6 a.m, Eastern standard time, and for half an hour before that time a preliminary program of organ mu-| sie willbe broadcast from Mont~ real, The addresses from London will be broadcast by CFCF, the Cantu dian Marconi station, across the country from Moncton to Vancouvs er by® Canadian National Tele graphs, and rebroadcast through Canadian National 'and other sta- tions in all partg of the Domimou. Twenty-four stations. in all will {cluded in time for a take part in the hook-up, whicn will be the largest Canada has over known, PROBE DEATHS DUE T0 ANAESTHETICS Medical Men Open an In- vestigation at Toronto Toronto, Jan. 20.--Prompted by the number of deaths in Ontario during the past few months that have been attributed to anaesthe- tics, ag roup of anaesthetists afl- liated with the academy of medi- cine here, have opened an invefil- gation on which will be concluded it is expected, about the middle ot next month, : In an interview with an local newspaper today, Dr. C. H., Rohson, anaesthetist of a local hospital, who is in charge of the probe, stat- ed the investigation wonld be cow meetine of the Academy of Medicine on Feb. | 28, He declared the findings &f | the prohe would not he made pub- | fic until member sof the academy had been given the information Dr. Rohson did not cara to discuss | the nature of the investization hut | it is helleved that a survey of the | number of deaths while the pa. fents were under the effects of | certain types of anaesthetics will be made a prominent factor in the | probe. il di SAAR { Pick Mail off Skyscraper Top | (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) New York, Jan, 20.--An attempt | by airmen in full flight to pick up | mail from 'the roof of a New York | skyscraper will be made Wednes- | day afternoon, it was announced today at Roosevelt Field. L. I., by Henry Bushmeyer and A. W, Card, designers and builders of au alr-mail catapult. Would Tighten Customs on the Canadian Front U.S. Treasury Dept. Says Congress Will Pass Measures Staff Correspondent) Washington, Jan. 20.--Propon- ents of treasury plans for tighten- ing the customs on the Canadian border hope necessary legislation will be got through congress by April 1, so that reorganization of the border patrol may be underway by July 1 There appears to be little doubt congress will pass the measures asked for by the treasury. The latest, poll on Capitol Hill shows not more than 75 "wet" congress. men and about a score of "wet" senators. These are the legislators who in a straight prohibition vote would cast their ballots against the 18th amendment and the Vol- stead law. However, in passing upon legislation aiming at more strict enforcement of the law. The figures in the dry column would be larger. A number of matters bearing up- on the tightening of the border are being unofficially discussed here while the treasury lay its project (Continued on Page 10) British House - Sits Tuesday Dole Bill Due For Pruning ! --Act on Simon Com- mission's Report . (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) ' London, Jan, 20.--Pariliament resumes * its session on Tuesday. overshadowed by the Five-Power Naval Conference despite its own importance. The* House still has the problem of tht coal hill. In the House of Lords there promises to be a severe pruning of | the Government's bill extending the provisions of the Unemployment Insurance Act--the dole, But in view of the naval con- ference, which will occupy most of the attention of Premier MaeDon- ald and his advisers, it is not like- ly that either Conservatives or Liberals will endeavor seriously to embarrass the Labor (iovernment (Continued on Page 10) a B : MINISTER TO CANADA Hon. Leland Harison, who is rumor- ed as next United States minister to canada, succeeding Hon William Prillips, retired.--Photo by Archie Davie Ottwa. Five Die in Blizzard Wellington, New Zealand of four women with a g Zealanders, blizzard and peris! man Glacier rec were found tor Delabeche Bivou wer y a lies nity ot 1-Dead: 8 Hart Montreal Fire Guests and Trapped in Milan Hotel Montreal, Jan. 20.--Trapped on the. fourth floor of the new Milan Hotel on Dorchester street west by fire that swept the bullding early today, guests and employees jump- ed 40 feet to the frozen ground be- low or were carried down ladders by firemen. Five guests, two maids and one fireman were injured, An unidentified man lost his life. At first the firefighters believed that several persons were dead but after they had penetrated all rooms in the building the fire chief fn nounced that but one life had been | lost, the body of a man being found in the basement. The body was 80 badly burned that it was unrecognizable, The new Milan Hotel is practic- ally a total loss, Enrico Toscini, the proprietor stated. There was little insurance and damage was estimated at $50,000, Joseph French, 45, of 420 South Ocean Drive, Freeport, Long land ,was taken to the Montreal General Hospital severely injured. It is expected he will recover. The others hurt were Montrealers, Killed at Trenton Belleville.--Morris Horne, 24, Bolton, Ont., dled In a hospital here Saturday four hours after be- ing injured when a supply of dyn- amite exploded prematurely on the military camp construction 'at Trenton. An inquest was opened and adjourned indefinitely, Three Killed in Florida Crash | Palm Beach, Fla, Jan. 20.-- Three men of their way in an aero- plane to Daytona Beach from Ba- hama Islands fell to their death in the craft in Lake Worth here yesterday. Two other men were seriously, The plane, equipped with pon- toons, was trying to land on the lake when it fell from a height of 500 feet, injured Pe Employees t Is- | NAVAL PARLEY IS ORGANIZED TO-DAY DEAL FORRIGHTTO DEVELOP LABRADOR NEARS COMPLETION | Syndicate of English and | Canadian Interests Negotiating | | (By Andrew Merkel, Canadian Press | Staff Writer) | Halifax, N.S. Jan. 20--That the | disposal of development rights in the great Labrador hinterland, awarded to Newfoundland last year the Privy Council, was nearing consummation, v | was the word brought to Canada to- | day by Sir William Coaker, K.B.E,, | member of the dominion's executive council Sir William stated that negotiations in . progress with a syndicate | representing English and Canadian interests looking to the acquisition by the latter of exclusive rights in the development of the Labrador. Prominent in advancing the aims of this syndicate, he said, was Joseph de Champlain, a Canadian who had held interest in the labrador for many years, In addition to negotiations proceed- with this syndicate, Sir William , consideration was being given 1 proposition involving the con- struction of a newsprint mill with an mtput of 1,000 tons per day, on the River, in Newfoundland. | Back of this proposition "were the | Hedrst newspapers and an essential | output of newsprint involved, was the awarding of timber rights of the | Labrador as well as in Newfoundland. { This Gander proposition, Sir William said, had been so far advanced that a further conference would be held shortly in New York, between rep- resentatives of the Newfoundland government and the Hearst interests. were Gander | Twelve Killed InMine Riots 129 Injured as Natives Fight at Rand, South Africa bd | (By Canadiai Press Leased Wire) | - Johannesburg, South Africa, | Jan, 20.--Twelve natives were kill- | ed and 29 injured in a battle be- tween rival tribes which marked the culmination last night of a feud that has long been brewing | in the Rand gold mines. | Natives compounds in the mines | were turned into shambles and a mine manager and a policeman at- tempting to control the mnauves | were knocked down senselesss. | The police, however, gradually con- | trolled the rioters and captured | huge quantities of weapons in the | quarters of the.attacking natives. | Natives of the Pondo faction were helieved to have formed a | secret society for the commission | of crime, Incensed' Shangaan na- | tives sent a deputation to the mine manager and asked permission to attack the Pondos. The manager, of course, refused the request. | The Shangeans then apparently | took the law into their own hands and attacked the Pondos, using stones, sticks axes or anything they | could put their hands on. The in- | furiated natives were not subdued | until 12 had been killed. Long-Lapsed Prize in Gaelic Is Again Claimed at Queen's Kingston, Jan. 20.--Shorn of all its Gaelic glory for a decade, Queeng may soon boast against stu- dents who can speak the mother tongue of its founders. The only University in the world to boast a Gaelic students' yell had fallen to depths so deep that all the Gaelic the students knew were the words of the yell. Some of them, it was alleged, did not even know what the yell meant. For 10 years the prize donated bysthe late Hon. M. C. Cameron, of Goderich, for the = best scholar, reader and speaker in Gaelic, has gone pegging. But on Saturday it wag announced that the glory of Queen's had Deen restored; two applications had been received for the Cameron prize. Both applicants are girls. Both hail from Maxville, Ontario, where the tongue of the Celt still waxes eloquent, One is Miss' Catherine McLeod, who retains the language of her ancestors of the Isle. ot Skye; the other is Miss Edith Fer- guson. But, before it is decided which clan will conquer the applicants must translate 60 lines of Gaelic at sight into English and 60 Hues of Euglish into Gaelic. 'Who will be the examiner has not been an- nounced, ' Prospects of awarding the Cam« eron prige haye ereated aun un- usual stir in the Celtic haus or Queen's and it may be that both will *win the award. The prize is only $40, but it ia the honor of a great university that is at stake. Battleship Holiday Sixteen Killed as Giant Air Liner Crashes and Burns (RGANIZATION EFFECTED NO SURVIVORS REMAIN AS PLANE'S WING HITS HILL TO OVERCOME WEAKNESSES OF GENEVA PARLEY IN 1927 Conference Hold Prelim- inary Meeting To Discuss Procedure to be Followed 'in Session PARLEY OPENS AT LONDON TOMORROW United States Unofficially Declared Willing to Stop Making Battleships for Five Years (By George Hambleton, Canadian Press Staff Correspondent) London, Jan. 20.~--~The follow- ing official report on this morning's meeting of the naval delegates at No. 10 Downing Street, was issued by the foreign office this afternoon. "At an informal meeting at No. 10 Downing Street this morning, at which all of the principal dele- gates to the London Naval Confer- ence were present, the procedure for the conference was discussew and the following proposals unani- wmously adopted. | "(1) That the prime minister of the United Kingdom should be el- ected chairman of the conference at the opening plenary meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 21, and that on com- pletion of the speeches there, the conference be adjourned until 10 a.m., Thursday, the 23rd of Jan- uary, when it would reassemble at St, James' Palace. Wednesday would be devoted to consultations betwéen the various delegations. #(2) The agenda for the meet- ing on the 23rd of January should consist of (a) Appointment of the secretary-general to the conference and a committee consisting of all the delegates to carry out the main work of the conference and (b) A general statement by the heads of the delegations of the needs of their countries." London, Jan. 20.--Preliminary meetings between the various de- legations to the great five-power naval conference opening tomor- row, culminated in a gathering at (Continued on page 10) LOSS FROM TOM BROWNS EXPLOITS SAID $130,000 New Swindles Uncovered as Stratford Investigation Proceeds Stratford, Jan. 20.--With it claimed that citizens of this city and district are losers to the am- ount of at least $47,000 as the re« sult of the alleged swindlings of the missing Tom Brown, the inves- tigation is continuing here under the direction of Inspector W. H. Stringer of Toronto and Chief of Police J, L. Broadley. Amount Estimated These officials stated yesterday that the unofficial loss would am-+ ount to at least $150,000. The master key to the safety deposi: boxes, which has been missing, was located at noon, and Immediately boxes were opened by the officials. Among the first six opened it was revealed that a widow had bonds taken from her box amounting to $7,000, and that the Romeo Lodge of Oddfellows' box bad been clean- ed of bonds valued at $17,490. During the afternoon about & do-~ zen boxholders visited the Downie Street officials, and no more bonds are reported missing among these. More Boxes To Open There are many more boxes yet to be opened, and police are of the belief that there may be many more casés where Tom Brown had access to the supposed safety de- posit 'boxes. It is feared that losses 'may be discovered in CEves where great estates have been. en- trusted in the hands of the ex- Mayor, who has been missing since New Year's. Thit Brown had been carrying on his alleged embezzlements for months past is alleged to be shown in the caso of the Oddfellows' loss. The officials of the lodge were in possession of two supposed dupli- cate keys, but upon investigation it was found that ong of these keys wae a fake, and, it Is alleged. Brown had access to the box which contained the heavy umount of bonds and securities, a.