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"All the News While It Is News" The Oshawa Daily Times Succeeding The Oshawa Daily Reformer A Growing Newspaper in a Growing City VOL. 6--NO. 46 Published at Oshawa, Canada i he Holidays OSHAWA, ONTARIO, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1930 15 Cents a Week; 3 Cents a Copy TEN PAGES aA A SARA ARAN sanasansananl] News in Brief { (By Canadian Press) [SPECT Suro bu BOI Flyer Is Burned in Crash Wilmington, Del.---J. P., Ruger, 30, of this city, was burned to death Saturday evening, when his airplane crashed on the field of the Delaware Flying Service at Newcastle, near here, * ow Girl Burned in Auto Crash Buffalo.--Three victims of a serious auto crash which burned a young girl to death Saturday, five miles east of Clarence, were re- | ported to be in a grave condition | Tost might at the Buffalo city Hos- pita - - - Liners 'Collide; Undamaged New York.--The Ward liner Monterey, outbound for Havana, | was in collision with the Italian | freighter Isarco about 30 miles off Sandy Hook yesterday afternoon. Neither ship was reported serifous- | ly damaged. 43 NZ ORAS ns « * = Woman Dies 'of Burns Tillsonburg.--Mrs. Marghall Clif- J | ford. aged 32, whose home was six | miles east of here, died yesterday as the result of severe burns } received a week ago. While pre- te paring breakfast she used coal oil to hurry the fire and a terrific ex- 8 plosion followed. w -. - Navigator Is Dead Toronto, Ont.--Captain John Sulli- van, 82, widely known in marine and political circles died at his home, here yesterday.' He was a great or- ganizer of seamen and years ago it was claimed he was the backbone of the Ontario Liberal party. He was born in St. Catharines, wo 1 Churches Closed | Moscow.--The "society of god- | tess," the Russian atheist group, B| have announced that out of Rus- sia's total of 50,000 churches, 1,- 370 had been closed by the Gov- | ernment during 1929. During the | previous 11 years, the report said only 2,000 churches had been abol- ished. * . . Deaf-Mute Boxer Dies ; San Francisco.--Fred "Dummy" | Mahan, welterweight boxer from Tombstone, Ariz., plunged to his death here today in a 5,000 foot | parachute jump from an aeroplane, Mahan, a deaf-mute, made the jump in an effort to regain his hearing. He had been deaf since he was eight Joonths old. * Turk is 156 Years Old Istanbul.--*One hundred and fifty-six years old, and never took # drink," is the boast of Zaro Agha, Turkey's longevity champion, who wil labandon a job as doorkeeper at the city hall here at the end of April to sail for New York at the invitation of the American Anti- Alcoholic Society. Three Dead When Plane Falls Miami, 'Fla.--Three men were killed when an airplane crashed into the Venetian Causeway here while it was being taken aloft on an experimental trip yesterday. The dead are: M. H. Carlton, Wat- ertown, N.Y.. a passenger PJ Somers, chief engineer of the Miami Aircraft Company; Thomas B. Ward. pilot. AM Ballet Is Fired Into Bus Sarnia.--Provincial and highway || traffic police are, investigating gunfire on No. 7 highway, 12 miles || east of the city Saturday evening. A bullet crashed through the wind- shield of the London-Sarnia bus. i| bound for this city, and narrowly missed striking the driver, George Sayers. Sayers was slightly cut il about the head by flying glass, i " Ld % Patients Rescued from Hospital Providence, R.I.--Fire originating in a waste-bandage chute, mushroom i|ed through the two upper floors of the five-storey St. Joseph's Hospital here early yesterday and caused da- fl mage estimated at between one and il two hundred thousand dollars before {] being brought under control after a l' six-hour battle. A total of 148 pat- icnts were taken from the institution. "Sap's Runnin' " Woodstock.--At the earliest date in years, farmers reported "sap's running" Saturday. Many farmers tapped their trees Thursday, and they said that the run on Friday was away above the average, It is unusual to have sap running in February, and with frosty nights it is expected a record maple syrup geason will result, Former C.N.E. Head Dies Toronto.--John Joseph Dixon, well-known Toronto stock broker and former president of the Cana- .ldian National Exhibition, died yes- terday at his home, 52 Cluny i Drive. He had been suffering for I some time from heart "trouble, Mr. |Dixon was president of the Cana- idian National Exhibition in 1926 'and 1927. He was also president of the Thoroughbred Horse Asso- ciation, diréctor of the Ontario Jogkey Club and was actively asso- ' elated with many other organiza- WEATHER It has been unusually mild in eastern Canada, while it has become somewhat colder in Manitoba where pressure has increased. An area of low pres- sure centred this morning over Nebraska moving eastward fis likely to cause unsettled wea- ther in the region of the Great Lakes. 3 Forecasts: Lower Lak Re- gion and Georgian Bay-- Fresh winds with occasional rain tonight and Tuesday, COACHES OF TRAIN PILED UP IN DITCH Milwaukee Automobile Is Struck by Passenger Ex- press Train and Thrown Into Path of Freight-- Occupants Killed In- stantly FIFTY PERSONS STILL IN HOSPITAL TODAY Accident Occurred Late Last Night -- First Passenger Fatality on Chicago's North Shore Line in Ten Years (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Kenosha, Wis., Feb. 24--Eleven persons were killed and at least 100 were injured when a Chicago bound passenger train of the Chi- cago North Shore and Milwaukee electric railroad struck an auto- mobile at a grade crossing just north of Kenosha last night and was derailed. The automobile. was hurled di- rectly into the path of a north- bound fright train, as the five cars of the passenger train left the track and piled into an eight-foot ditch. The first car of the passenger traic, which was travelling nearly 60 miles an hour, buried its nose for mang feet in the soft mud of the ditch, The car behind piled into it, The three rear cars also went into the ditch, but their passengers were more fortunate than those in the two forward cars. The Dead Frank Buday, Milwaukee, driver of the automobile; Norman E. Shinners, Milwaukee, a passenger in the automobile;; James B. Pot- eous, Racine, Wis.; E. F, Relibe, Milwaukee; George Brofka, .Chi- .cago; James Fitzgerald, Manisti- (Continued on Page 2) Naval Parley Resumes Today May Adjourn If New French Cabinet Loses Con- fidence Vote (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) London, Feb. 24.--The Five Power naval conference entered its fifth week today very much in the doldrums. Preparations were begun for re- sumption of actual work Wednes- day, but the preparations were somewhat indifferent, for. unless the French government weathers its session in the Chamber of De- puties tomorrow the forced ad- journment of last week may have to be continued indefinitely. There was hope here that M. Chautemps, the new French Prem- fer should emerge victorious in the chamber and come here with M. Briand and Sarraut prepared to plunge right into the conference negotiations, There was worry en- ough even in this prospect, Paris dispatches said there would be no change in the Tardieu naval pol- icy, demands of which the other naval powers considered excessive. | DIVER HELD FAST FOR FIVE HOURS Hull Youth Had' Narrow Escape From Death at Fitzroy Harbor (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Fitzroy Harbor, Ont., I'eb, 24.-- Hector Roy, of Hull, Que., well- known youmg diver, had a narrow escape from death at the hydro power development at Chat's Falls near here, when he was pinned un- der water by suction for five hours, Six men pulling on a rope were un- able to release him, and three oth- er divers had to descend and build a V-shaped crib about him and re- inforce it with mattresses before he could be freed. Roy suffered intensely from.cold, byt is recover- ing. Derails Train PRESENT THAW BRINGS LARGEST ICE-JAM: IN YEARS ----t--n . I" I ma Soviets Close 22 Churches Sell Costly Rugs and Church Objects to Buy Farm Tractors (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Moscow, Feb. 24---Despite the campaign abroad against the So- viet government for its attitude to- ward religion, Soviet authorities in different parts of the Union have closed a number of additional churches, synagogues and mosques, The authorities declare these were shut upon petition of the workers and peasants. Tass despatches today reported that Soviet officials closed three churches, three mosques, one syn- agogue and one Polish church in Alma-Ata, capital of the Province of Kazakstan, In Karabudakhkent, near Mak- hatch-Kala, capital of the Dages- tan republic whose population is predominately Mohammedan, the authorities closed no less than 13 mosques. Ecclesiastical objects re- moved from the latter including rich rugs and mosaics were sold and the jnoney converted into trac- tors for the new collective farms. Another Tass despatch said that in Tver Central Russia, the Soviet officials decided to close a local synagogue and to convert it into a club "upon the insistent demand of laboring jews." FOUR TROLLEY TRAINS COLLIDE IN BALTIMORE Thirty Persons Are Injured Some of Them Seriously (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Baltimore, Feb, 24.--A collision involving four two-car trolley traing of the United States rail- ways carrying several hundred workers to the Point Breeze plant of the Western Electric Co., injur- ed more than 30 people today, some of them seriously. When the first train stopped for passengers three trains followed it in a fog collided, telescoping the trailer of the third and front car of the fourth train, The most seri- ously injured were in these cars. Louis Helm, passenger, had both legs amputated; Samuel Ruby, motorman of the last train lost one leg, as did Thomas-Carney, passen- ger, and the right foot of Orville Faulkner, another passenger was amputated. Sportsman Dies Chjcago, Ill.-----Eugene Byfield sportsman, hotel owner, and one of the few rightly to be known as a "man-about-town," died early to- day, from injuries suffered last Tuesday in a fdll from his polo pony. He was 46 years, unmarried, and vice-president of the Hotei Sherman company. The photographs here, scenes from the ice-clogged Hum- ber river and Galt, Ont., where present thaws have released fce- studded waters of the Grand river; (1) is a general view from the bridge showing the largest ice-jam in years at the Old Mill on the Humber river, show | await co-jam on ¢ repairing bridge which Above this | moved eight feet by crushing ice, point the river is cleared and the (and (4) damage done to the Main spectators seen In the photograph 'St. bridge at Galt by pounding ice. SPECTATORS AWAIT INEVITA BLE RUSH OF RELEASED RIVER events in anticipation of thrilling sights. Their confidence in' the sturdiness of the bridge is also commendable; (2) solid wall of ice twelve feet high on Freeport flats, near Miss. Levtz' home; (8) veritable mountains of ice at Blair on the C.N.R. line. Workmen are was (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Hamilton, Ont., Feb. 24.--With the Grand River fifteen feet higher than the highest levels yet recorded, scc- tions of the Town of Cayuga were under water today, roads were flood- cd, farms inundated, and general ha- voc created along the cntire lower valley of the big stream today. Stor- ies of hair-breadth escapes and gal- lant rescues filtered through from the district as motorists turned back by blocked roads, returned to the city. Communications with Cayuga have been difficult to establish during the morning. On Saturday, a jam formed in the Grand River near Onondaga and vast sheet of unbroken ice lay in the ri- ver from that point to Middle Port where open water began again. Yes- terday, the jam broke, and the rag- ing torrent carried thousands of tons of edbris down toward Calendonia, where 'much of it lodged on the dam, caused the water in the upper river to rise rapidly. Towards evening the piled up masses on the dam broke lose, and the pent-up stream went pouring down past Calendonia, through the narrow parts of the ri- ver at York and towards Cayuga, where the present crisis had arisen. Reports from that point indicate that the big cement highway bridge which stands more than a score of feet above the river in summertinie had been covered by the rapidly ri- sing water. Owing to the extreme cold weather of the past winter, the cakes carried by the stream are of formidable thickness, and threaten the safety of any bridge structure. Water High at Brantford Brantford, Ont, Feb. 24.--The Grand river is on its spring rampage Grand River Rises to High Level, Endangers Many Towns and Cities Galt, Brantford, Paris, Cayuga and Other Places Are Men- aced by the Rising Flood Waters--Home of Alexander Graham Bell at Brantford Threatened--Several Thrill- ing Rescues of Boys From Drowning Are Reported and throughout the greater part of this morning was running in flood at a level but a few inches below the high mark of last year, The ris- ing waters yesterday flooded out se- veral outlying streets in Eagle Place and West Brantford sections and the firemen were called upon to com- mission the lifeboat for the rescue of several families from homes in the flooded areas. Continuing the rise through the night, the flood reach- ed its peak at 4 o'clock this morn-) ing, when it was nine feet two in- ches above normal, which is eight inches below the 1929 high mark. By 8.30 it had receded but one inch, and all dams in the city were so depely submerged that there was scarcely a ripple to indicate their location: Some Baldwin avenue residents -were removed by lifeboats but others are remaining in their homes. At Paris, both the Grand and the Nith were running very full, and at daylight today were within a foot or twa of going over the banks. The last year's high. As the result of flpoding the greater part of the Penman Woollen mills are closed down, a portion of the Wincey mill alone continuing to operate, After 8 o'clock there were some signs that the flooding was slowly receding, i Plants Closed at Galt Galt, Ont, Feb. 24. --Cellars of homes and streets along the east bank of the Grand river were in- undated early-today when the wat- ers started on another rampage fol- lowing the break-up in the ice at Elora yesterday. A number of ' in- dustrial plants were forced to close (Continued on Page 2) Baldwin Gives Straight Reply Says Empire Frce Trade Is an Ideal, But Is Not Practical (By Thos. T. Champion, Canadian Press Staff Correspondent) London, Feb, 24.--Free trade within the empire is the Conserva- tive ideal. But it is impossible at the present time. This is Rt, Hon. Stanley Baldwin's attitude, The leader of the Conservative party, former prime minister, {issued "a statement of Conservative policy today. It gives the attitude of the party to the new United Empire party which Lord Beaverbrook, formed to press the latter's appeal for free trade within the empire and a tar wall around it, "I hold Empire Free Trade as the ideal for which every Conser- vative should work," declared Mr. Baldwin, "as a practical policy to- day, however is is impossible, No responsible statesman could go to the country and to the electorate and tell the country it would be in- troduced if he were returned to power, It cannot be done. The do- minions will not have it. They have said so in the clearest terms." REPEAT REQUEST THAT NOV. 11TH BE THE HOLIDAY Parliament to be Asked to Create It As Remem- brance Day (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Ottawa, Feb, 24.--The oft-repeated request that = the Eleventh day of November in each year, be set apart as a National holiday and a Day of Remembrance distinguished entirely from the present observances of Thanksgiving Day, is again being placed betore the Canadian parlia- ment by the Canadian Legion of the British Empire Service League. This proposal has been before parliament on several occasions, but it has al- ways been rejected, largely on busi- ness grounds, While recognizing the validity of the objections raised to the declar- '| ation of .a national Day of Remem- brance on Nov. 11 each year, the officers' of the Legion are putting forward the view that it is a Nation- al duty that the memory of the dead who gave their lives in the war should be. honored and respected en- tirely apart from the celebration of Thanksgiving for the safe in-gather- ing of the harvest each year. Shipments of Canadian apples this season to British and other markets from Nova Scotia totalled 662,408 barrels up to December 31, 1929. an increase of 285,671 barrels compared with the corres- ponding period in the previous sea- Cook Says U.E. To be Fascists (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) London, Feb, 24.--A., J. Cook, general s:cretary of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, today had this cryptic comment to make on the formation of the Empire Free Trade party by Lord Beaver- brook: "It will soon develop into a Fascist party." Many Poisoned At S.A. Banquet 130 Persons, 'Mostly Chil- dren, Recovering in San Francisco Hospital (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) San Francisco, Feb, 24--Poison- ed by food served at a Salvation Army banquet here, nearly 130 persons, most of them children, were recovering with few excep- tions today as authorities began a three-fold investigation to deter- mine the cause of the near tragedy. While there were no deaths re- ported, at least a dozen sufferers were still in a serious condition at the San Francisco hospital, The first of the stricken diners arrived at the central emergency hospital two hours after the meal. Some had been seized with convul- sions, and others were taken ill while motoring to their homes in nearby towns. Architect Quits Over Charing Cross Scheme Sir Edwin Luytens Resigns from Royal Institute to "Save Reputation" (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) London, Feb. 24--Long and bit- ter controversy over -the great Charing Cross scheme, has at last caused the resignation of Sir Ed- win Luytens, supervisor of the scheme, from the Royal Institute of British Architects, of which he had been a leading member for 24 years, The scheme calls for expenditure of $75,000,000 in transferring the Charing Cross railway station from one side to another, building of an- other Thames bridge, and the de- velopment and beautification of the present railway station site on the river bank. When the bill came up in parlia- ment last week the minister of transport read a letter from Arthur Keen, chairman of the Thames Bridge conference, to Sir Edwin Keen along with Sir Banisher Fletcher, president of the R.I.LB.A., is among the strongest opponets of the scheme. This letter, written on official R.I.LB.A., notepaper, suggested Sir Edwin's reputation would suffer through his identification with the scheme, It expressed assurance that parliament would reject the bill. The minister, Hon. Herbert Mor- rison, said he was unaware wheth- er the letter was authorized by the R.ILB.A,, but in any case the com- mons ought to know the tactics be- ing employed against the scheme. Blondes Barred As Mayor's Wife (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) San Pedro, Calif.,, Feb, 24.-- Andrew J. (Bossy) Gillis. mayor of Newburyport, Mass, is heading for San Francise to pick himseir a wife, because he has heard so much about the beautiful girls of California, Brunettes and red heads are to be given an even chance but blondes are barred. His obser: vations are they are poor house keepers and go to bridge teas, and no wife of his is going to be "a bridge tea hound." NAVAL EXPERT GOES HOME London, Feb, 24.--Rear Admir- al Hilary P. Jones, naval expert with the United States delegation, who has been ordered home for reasons of ill health, will leave on the Berengaria Wednesday. Doe: tors agreed after a consultation to- son, FATAL MOTOR CRASH NEAR BROOKLIN Grave Flood Conditions In W. Ontario Eleven Dead as Automobile MRS. G. RODD, BROOKLIN, IS KILLED; GEORGE RODD, OSHAWA, BADLY INJURED Two Cars Crashed on High- way North of Brooklin During Fog on Sunday Afternoon, With Dis- astrous Results BOTH CARS WRECKED AND WENT IN DITCH Well-known Oshawa Barber, Whose Mother Was Kill- ed, Is in Critical Condition in General Hospital Mrs. George Rodd, age fifty-five, of Brooklin, died from her terrible injuries, her son, George Carmon Rodd, of Brooklin, who operates a barber shop in Osh- awa, at Mary and Colborne streete, lies at the point of death in Osh- awa, and Mrs. Jane Read, of High- land Creek, aged 87, is in the Osh- awa Hospital seriously injured, as the result of one of the worst automobile accidents in the history of this county which took place Sunday afternoon half a mile north of the village of Brooklin, on the Whitby-Lindsay provincial high- way. The deceased woman died in Town's ambulance while being con- veyed to the Oshawa Hospital. The Accident According to information in the hands of Chief of Police Herb. Gunson, of Whitby, who hurried to the scene of the accident and gave valuable first aid, Carman Rodd, driving a Pontiac Coupe, with his mother and grandmother as occupants with him, left Brook- lin for a drive about four o'clock. Rodd's ear for some reason as yet unknown, sideswiped a car going south and owned and driven by Walter W. Free. of 152 Lindsay street, Lindsay, and both machines were wrecked and ditched. The force of the impact took the top clean off Rodd"s car, and all three occupants were badly injured. Mr. Free escaped injury and his wife, who was with him, sustained only a few cuts from a broken wind- shield. Mr. Rodd and his mother sustained terrible head and other injuries, while Mrs. Read had a wrist broken and sustained internal and external injuries. Dr. R. 7. MacLaren, of Whitby, who was called to the scene and rendered first ald, took Mrs. Read to the (Continued on Page 2) Grain Prices Fall Lower Liverpool "Wheat Market Causes Drop of 4 Cents at Winnipeg One woman, (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Winnipeg, Feb. 24.--The wheat market plunged to new low levels for the season around noon today as stop loss orders were flung in- to the pit, driving prices down 2fc to 4c below Saturday's figures. May wheat scored the widest de- cline, dropping 4c to $1.11, a new low. July wheat was down 3ie at $1.13% and October 2%c down at $1.16. No support was in sight for the fast falling market and further drops were imminent. GOLF STARS ARE UNDER QUARANTINE Hagen and Kirkwood Aban- don New Zealand Tour (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Wellington, New Zealand, Feb. 24,--Owing to a mild outbreak of smallpox aboard the steamer Aor- angi, Joe Kirkwood and Walter Hagen, golf stars, have been fore- ed to abandon their proposed tour to New Zealand. They will con- tinue on their journey to Sydney. When the Aorangi arrived in Auckland Sunday a second class woman passenger for Sydney was found suffering with smallpox. The vessel was put under quaran- tine and New Zealand passengers landed and quarantined for three weeks. the Aorang! continuing her passage toward Sydney. Hankow, Feb. 24. Poverty stricken Chinese mothers in Hankow. and neighboring cities are selling their babies at $5 apiece to save them day that he might be moved. from freezing to death,