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"All the News While It Is News" A Growing Newspaper in a Growing City Oshmua Daily Times Succeeding The Oshawa Daily Reformer The | VOL. 6--NO. 47 OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1930 15 Cents a Week; 3 Cents a Copy TEN PAGES Published at Oshawa, Ont, Canada Every Day Except Sundays and Public Holidays J A ---._--,_o t tN in Brief ews in Brief (By Canadian Press) - Prominent Citizen Dies Woodstock. -- William Forbes, for many years prominent in the municipal life of Oxford County, and former county road superin- tendent, died this morning, follow- ing a lengthy illness. LJ * . Quebec Preacher to Ireland Beltast.--Rev, Joseph Cordner, of {| Sherbrooke Presbytery, Quebec pro- vince, has been unanumously invited to the ministry of Clifton street church here. . Temperature Drops at Sault Sault Ste. Marie. Ont.--A drop in 4 the temperature has tightened things up in this section after a thaw which i had lasted several days and made most of the roads: in the district im- | passable though there has been no \ danger of a flood. Workman Is Killed Hamilton.--Thrown from the door | of a steam shovel caboose into spin- f ning cog wheels, when a sudden jerk occurred, James Edward Golden was instantly killed late yesterday after- noon, at Burlington Beach pier. * * » Believed Slain by Gangsters Detroit.--Refusing to name his as- sailants or make any statement re- garding his shooting, Roy Gennaro, i 25, died at receiving hospital today apparently the victim of a gangster execution, - LJ Man Electrocuted Ogdensburg, N.Y.--Lincoln Ashley, an employee of the Standard Shade Company, was accidentally electro- cuted at the company's roller plant late yesterday. Two other employees who escaped grasped Ashley in an attempt at rescue were rendered un- conscious but Jater recovered. Canadian Destroyers in South Miami, Fla.--Two Canadian de- stroyers the H.M.C.S. Champlain and the JHM.CS. Vancouver, and the British warship Durban docked here yesterday to be given an internation- al greeting by members of the local Canadian society and a delegation headed by Mayor C. H. Reeder. * Ld - Nurses Fight Blaze Boston, | Mass. -- Four nurses fought a blaze in a room in the children's ward on the fourth floor of the Massachusetts Memorial Hospital early today and got it un- der control before the arrival of fireman. Fourteen children in near- by rooms, including four seriously ill, were removed from the section. * - " Oil Magnate Suicide New York---Lichard H. Jones, a director of Tidewater Oil Corpora- tion of New Jersey, was killed to- day from a fall from his eighth- floor apartment on Park Avenue. ll Police listed the case as a suicide, and said Jones jumped to his death after striking his wife on the head with an electric lamp. LJ] - hd Thinks Ship Went Down Buenos Aires.--The Reverend Phil- ip Lindsay, who believes he was one of the last persons to sight the Dan- ish training frigate Kobenhavn, miss ing with Il hands since last win- ter thinks the ship went to the bot- tom near the rocky shoals off the lonely south Atlantic Island of Tris- tan de Cunha. * * Killed First Day at School Toronto.--On the first day he at- tended school, Alexander MacTavish Martin, aged 5 1-2 years, of 162 Manor Road East, was run over and killed yesterday afternoon by a mo- Jtor truck. His playmate, Donald i] Chassells, also 5 1-2 years, of 131 il Manor Road East, was also run down but escaped with minor injuries. Sir Harry In Good Shape Gary, Ind.--Sir Harry Lauder, today dissipated reports that he had been playing before Chicago audiences with a brokgn rib. In the first place, the comedian said, his rib was not broken. In the second, the slight injury he sustained had been adequately treated. Third, he's now in good shape and was while in Chicago. * - Duke of Gor Dies Madrid--The Duke of Gor, head of one of the oldest ducal housés in Spain, died of heart failure yester- day after his automobile had run over and killed a pedestrian. The duke was in the automobile. but was not driving. The Duke of Gor was a well known sportsman, excelling in fencing. Ld Ld » Dominica Capital Quiet Santo I"»mingo, Dominican Repub- lic--Faced with a revolutionary movement in the north of the repub- lic and disturbed by local trouble yesterday, the city of Santo Domin- go was quiet today. President Hor- acio Vasquez and Vice President Dr ose D. Alfonseca passed the night in the Santo Domingo Fortres, the commander of which had remained foyal to the government, WEATHER An area of low pressure is cov- ering the lower lakes and Wis. . ing led wea- 'ther in the Georgian Bay region W. ON Report Says French Gov't Defeated Beatty Commission Report on Salaries Tabled INCRE ASED N AL ARIES FOR QUEEN LIES CRITICALLY ILL IN ITALY NZ Gives Dole RIGHER CIVIL SERVANTS To Unemployed RECOMMENDED IN REPORT Men and Women Over. 20 WUSEOW OFFICIAL gi dd DIES IN LONDON TARIO FLOODS EXTENDING AREA HOUSE HOLDERS TRAPPED IN DUNNVILLE WHEN WATERS OF RIVER SWEEP INTO TOWN PLAN T0 RESUME PARLEY THURSDAY Ramsay MacDonald Invites Heads of Delegations to Consultation Ice Jam on Grand River Causes Serious Situations at Several Points Along Its Route RESIDENTS RESCUED BY MEANS OF BOATS Peak of Flood Waters Is Ex pected to be Reached Tou night -- Four Persons Drowned Yesterday Railway, Pension and Civil Service Commissions Are Included in Officals for Salaries (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Wellington, New Zealand, Feb. 25 .. Wrestling with an unemployment problem, New Zealand has turned to- wards the "ddle." So-called "susten- ance payments" for men of 20. years (By George Hambleton, Canadian Press Staff Correspondent) London, Feb. 25--Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald plans to resume the Five-Power Naval Conference Whom Higher Are Suggested RE-GROUPING OF ALL GRADES IS ADVISED Recommendation Is Also Made for Provision of P:oper Method of Promo- tions Within the Service (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Ottawa, Feb, 25.--Increases In salaries of the Board of Railway Commissioners, Board of Pension Commissioners and the Civil Ser vice Commission are recommended in the Beatty Royal Commission report on technical and professional services in the Dominion govern- ment. Pensions on retirement of these commissioners are also sug- gested. : Salaries for members of the Rail- way Commission are advocated as follows: Chief commissioner $15,- 000; assistant chief commissioner, $12,000; deputy chief commission- er, $11,000; commissioners, $10,- 000. Annual salaries to members, of the Pensions Board and Civil Ser- vice Commission are recommended as follows: chairmen $9,000; com- missioner, $7,500. Salaries as high as $15,000 for certain deput ministers with tech- nical qualifications are suggested. Officials with the rank and not the title of Deputy Minister, Hon. Martin Burrell and J. De L, Tache, joint parliamentary librarians; A. E. Blount, clerk of the senate and A. Beauchmesne, clerk of the house of commons are recommended "to be known in the future by their official title only, but without the rank in question" but at higher salaries of $7,500 annually. The report suggests simplifica- tion of the salary structura., by substituting seven grades for the two hundred and three heterogene- (Continued on Page 2) NAPANEE PRISONER ESCAPES FROM JAIL Police at Noon Had Failed to Capture George Wilson Held for Thefts (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Belleville, Ont., Feb. 25--Geo. Wilson, wanted for a series of thefts in Eastern" Ontario and in custody at Napanee County jail broke jail late last night and has not yet been captured. He was not missed by the warden, William Yost, until possibly three hours af- ter he made his break for liberty. Provincial Police Barret, of Nap- anee, with other constables in this district have searched the country- side, but it is believed the prison- er has slipped through the police net. Wilson was arrested a week ago in Toronto, after a robbery had been committed in Brighton, Some of the stolen property was found at Newbrugh, north of Napanee, and Florence Shane, with Wilson, was arrested and charged with the theft. The Shane woman was taken to Cobourg and Wilson to Napanee. There were only three prisoners in the jail at the time of the jail break, Wilson being in a corridor. He pried the bars over the window loose and entered the recreation room. By the help of a wrench, presumably secured about the jail. He unfastened seven "rusty bolts and Jet himself into the Jal yard. Using a ladder to scale the walls. Superstitious Believe Curse of Pharaoh Still Operating (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) London, Feb, 25--Death of a worker at the British Museum dur- ing the week-end gave the super- stitious another bit of evidence that the Pharaoh's curse is still in operation. Edgar Steele, 57, died after an operation for an internal trouble. He had been engaged in lettering exhibits of the various parts of the museum, among them some relics from the tombs of Luxor. A museum official scouted the suggestion that there was anything sinister in Steele's death. Elevator Work Stopped by Fire at Prescott Prescott Grain Terminal Suffers $5,000 Loss in Early Fire (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Montreal, Feb, 25.--~Damage sus- tained by the Atlas Construction Company through fire at its con- struction works near Prescott, Ont., last night was slight and would amount to about $4,000 or $5,000 E. W. Wall, vice-president, stated today, Mr. Wall said the reports which listed the damage as high as $250,000 were "absurd." Prescott, Ont., Feb, 25--Exten- sive damage was done by fire which broke out late last night in one of the work houses at the grain elevator and terminal under con- struction here. The blaze raged un- til well into the morning, destroy- ing the engine house, adjoining cement house, one of the convey- ors and towers and three box cars filled with cement, A large quan- tity of cement was lost. Pending a survey of the damage this morning fire chief Geo, Henry declined to place an estimate on the total. The night watchman for the At- las Construction Co., of Mantreal, contractors engaged on the eleva- tor, had just completed his rounds of the many work house when a passerby drew his attention to flames shooting high into the air from the engine house, Chief Henry and his men were in the scene a few minutes after 11 o'clock, at which hour the alarm was raised, but owing to lack of a water pum- per to step-up the water pressure they were handicapped in stemm- ing the rapid spread of the flames. A call for assistance was sent out and at 2 o'clock this morning the pumping engine and several mem- bers of the Brockville fire depart- ment arrived at the scene. | Fire Chief Henry declared the origin of the blaze had not been determined. He denied that it had been ascertained an explosion of a lantern in the gosoline room was responsible, Two Killed in Plane Crash Santa Maria, - Cal--Thomas J. Middleton, 24, of Los Angeles, stu- dent at an airplane school here, and Joseph W. Pearson, 31, an instructor were killed in the carsh of their ship 31 miles east of here yesterday. Views of Labor M.P. Are The here shows Queen Victoria of Sweden, who, in her 69th year, is critically ill from pulmonary trouble at her winter photograph SWEDEN'S QUEEN LIES AT DEATH'S DOOR | residence, Villa Svedzia, at Rome. | Little hope is held for her recovery. | King Gustav has been almost con- stantly at his wife's bedside since Saturday. Brokers Do Cash Business Only (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Calgary, Alta, Feb, 25.--~The fu ture. policy of Solloway, Mills and Company, Limited, will be to conduct their mining and oil business on a cash basis effective March 15, said I. W. C. Solloway, President of the company, on arrival here last night, The statement was made following a Winnipeg despatch declaring that all margin accounts of the company were to be taken up by March 15, Reports French Gov't Defeated Chautemps "Ministry Is Be- lieved to Have Been Overthrown (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Paris, Feb. 25.--The newly formed Chautempts govern- ment, before an official recount of the vote could be completed, was reported to have been overthrown late today in its de- mand for a vote of confidence. Paris, Feb. 25.--Camille Chau- temps, new French Premier, today presented his ministerial declara- tion to the Chamber of Deputies and asked a vote of confidence so that Foreign Minister Briand and the rest of the French naval delegation might go to London tomorrow. In his declaration of policy upon which the fate of his cabinet hangs, the new premier took over Tar dieu's naval policy and his econo- mic construction program but prom- ised lower taxes. He asked ratification of the Young plan and The Hague accords on reparations and gave his ap- proval to the Briand project for a "Unite States of Europe." STILL HOPEFUL IN WHEAT SITUATION DROP TO NEW LOW LEVEL IN WHEAT PRICE Slump in Chicago And Kansas City Affects Winnipeg Market (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Chicago, Ill, Feb, 256--Wheat prices broke to new low again to- day, a fall of around four cents a bushel after a firm opening on the Board of Trade bringing the price for March option to within a frac- tion of a dollar a bushel, In Kan- sas City wheat fell to 98 cents, The slump today was ascribed by brok- ers to a statement given by Chair- man Legge of the farm board, would not support prices. Break at Winnipeg Winnipeg, Feb, 20 Shortly be- fore noon today wheat prices start- ed a sharp downward descent as a result of weakness in the Chicago pit. Heavy stop loss orders acceler- ated the downwrd slide, and at noon Mal wheat was down J%e¢ to 107%: July down 37% to 109%; October 35; lower at 1117. Gain at Opening Winnipeg, Man, Feb. 25~Wheat prices .regained some of the ground iost yesterday at the opening of the market today when quotations were unchanged to 1 1-2c higher than the previous close. Firmer Liverpool cables strengthened the local prices. Export demand was reported small and trading was slow at the open- ing, With the exception of flax, coarse grains opened fracitonally higher. SIX PERSONS DIE IN BRITISH FIRES Four Women Dead in Hat Factory--Two Children in Tenement Blazes (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) London, Feb, 25.--8ix persons discussions on Thursday, He assumes and over, will be about $5.25 a 'week and for women of 20 years and over will be about $4.37 weekly. age will tween 18 and 20, $3.18, In addition, a married woman weekly, along with an allowance of $1 a week years of age, and not exceeding four children. in ment ard 500,000 annually. The fund, under the recommendations of the government's special committee, issued today, will be all persons over 18 years of age, as well as by companies, municipalities ent employment board to by the committee. "It is the duty of everybody to assist in | Motors Corporation yesterday aboard the chartered yacht Shadow K. after being badly dam- aged when the craft ran full speed into a sea monster weigh more than ten tons, K, said he believed the fish was a rhonodontycur, The yacht was crui- sing at full speed when it ran into a school of the fish. to Bimini and Nassau at the time. Tells Survivors Safe day have been brought to the sur- tives waited all night in the snow at killed and seven injured in the ex- th il it C C cc 18 and $3.75, 20 years of women be- Men between receive will receive $4.37 cach child under 16 for h These payments will be provided | if cases of need from an employ- sustenance fund of $3,-|F it c a perman- | tl adminis- | 3 built up from contributions by The establishment of a ter these provisions is recommended overcoming | © the evil of unemployment, and it therefore develves upon everyone to contribute towards relief," the com- mittee says, and others. McLaughlin Boat Hits Sea Monster (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Miami Beach, Fla, Feb. 25.--R. S McLaughlin, of Oshawa, president of the Canadian division of the General returned here estimated to Captain Hewes, of the Shadow a ti Mr. McLaughlin was on his way tl fi o Girl Testifies In Murder Trial How Mother Was Murdered With Axe Near Lindsay Lindsay, Ont., Feb, 25--A little girl, who cuddled closely under the arm of Mr. Justice Kelly, today de- scribed to the assize court how her mother was murdered with an ax» in a lonely little farm house near Bear Lake, She was testifying at the trial of Walter Marchman, alias Joseph Norman, who is charged with the slaying. a h a o h tt T After Explosion : Wath-Upon-Dearne, Yorkshire, Eng, Feb, 25.--All those trapped in the shafts of the Wath main colliery after an explosion and fire yester- face. Groups of miners and rela- the mouth of the mine as the groups |g came from below. Three miners were | | ir plosion, T BRITAIN T0 SHIP COAL TO CANADA vited conference at the conference, casual conversation--of a three pow- Premier Hints Soldiers terday. strenuous debcte, onder of the time honored motion were, as usual, brief. Then Hon. R. B. Bennett, took the floor. from many tions in the country, marketing situation, unsatisfactory tariff arrangements, failure of the government to assist the Canadian farmer--these matters which Mr. Bennett brought to the front and laid at the door leader. mined for an appeal to the coun- try, he said. we French government under Cam- le Chautemps will secure a major- y on the crucial division 'in the hamber of Deputies this evening. onsequently, as chairman of the nferenee, Mr. MacDonald has in- the heads of all the delega- » a consultation on Thursday. while the experts committee as completed its report on the class il types of auxiliary . The report will committee" of the ication of speci and supply shi o to the, "first Still Have Faith Despite the air of pessimism dur- 1g the last few days, British offi- ial circles maintain their faith that five-power pact will result from 1e conference. It is officially intim- ted there has been no discussion except perhaps in r pact, and that neither the French (Continued on Page Election May Be This Year May Be Given Benefit of Doubt in Invis- ible Disability Cases (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Ottawa, Feb. 25.--References to general election. focussed atten- on in the House of Commons yes- It was the beginning of he debate on the address, and well- lled galleries listened to leaders f the great political parties in Mover and sec- Conservative leader, For two hours he ttacked the government, directing is criticism of the administration and widely differing ngles. Unemployment, depressed condi- the wheat were some of the f tho administra'ion. And then e turned to the coming Imperial confarence. To the dem: nd for an election, he Prime Minister, Mackeazie King, responded speedily when he ose to reply to the Opposition No time had been deter- But the government id not intgnd to wait until it could (co nued on Page 2) Thomas Is Optimistic (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Birmingham, Eng, Feb. 25--="In pite of all the figures, in spite of Il the abuse, I still say I am opt- mistic," declared Rt. Hon. J. E. 'homas, Lord Privy Seal and Min- ister of Employment, speaking here last night. "I believe raw materials, which af- ter all are the fundamental cause of our position, have touched bottom. am applying myself to a long-range policy." Hamilton, Feb. 25.--The greater part of the town of Dunnville was under water today when an ice jam formed on the dam ard the water in the Grand River rose so rapidly that householders were trapped * and had' to be removed from their homes in boats. = After the break at Cayuga, the torreng swept down on Dunnville with re lentless force and backed up bee hind the dam, covering a huge area, With tracks covered and bridged menaced, train schedules in and out of Dunnville have been cancelle ed. Schools are ordered closed, factories shut down, and Boats are travelling up and down the streets where automobiles usually make their way. Toward noon, {it was reported that the water had reached fits height and was gradually receding, the ice-jam showing signs of giving away. The jam below Cayuga went out with a roar about six o'clock this morning and relieved a situation which was becoming nothing short of disastrous. The water yesterday afternoon had risen level with tha high bridge spanning the river, and had travelled up number three high- way for a distance of more than half a mile. Whole square miles of the country around the village were under water to a depth from a few inches to ten feet, Rescued in Boats Yesterday, all persons in the zone were removed from their homes by rescuers in flat-bottomed boats, some of the marooned householders climbing down from second storey, windows into the boats, Losses in Cayuga vicinity are ree ported as very heavy. Furnishings of many homes have heen utterly ruined, and foundations of houses and barns smashed by the heav® cakes of ice, Expect Water Peak Tonight London, Ont., Feb. 25.--Follow= ing a rain storm early today which was featured by . severe electrical disturbances, the Thames river at noon was slowly climbing upward to the danger level. The rain fal} (Continued on Page 2) Cupid Helps Pension Fund (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) London, Feb. 25.--Cupid, whe would not ordinarily be expected to deplete the ranks of the old age pensioners, turned the trick here the other day and a woman of 73, after having been in receipt of her pension of .20 a month, notis fied city clerk Baker that she had married a clergyman in a nearby town and that she would no longer need her pension. To Help Canadians at Border Windsor. Announcement was made yesterday by Justus Miller, managing secretary of the Bordef Chamber of Commerce, that the De troit Board of Commerce, has pleds ged assistance in guarding ainst any measure in the United tates Congress which would place Canas dians under a quota plan or ban them from the United 'States. Prison Attempts Suicide Sandwich.--John Thomas, said by Windsor police to have engaged in terminal operations in various secs tions of Ontario under five separate aliases, attempted to hang himself in Sandwich jail yesterday but was save ed from death when turnkeys cut him down. He was arrested here when charged with robbery. (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) London, Feb. 25.--In Parliament Chicago Gangster Is Shot this afternoon, Rt. Hon. J. H. Tho- mas, Lord Privy Seal, said he had the first definite information that are known to be dead, several are and southern districts of Ontario missing and many were injured in Rain has also fallen in the Mar- (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) London, Feb. 25.--In the talks Altered by His Decoration While Patient in Hospital itimes while elsewhere the wea- ther has been fair. It has become s- newhat coldér with increasin~ pressure in Northern Ontario and most districts of the west. Forecasts: Lower Lake region, Fresh winds, rain. Wednesday: northeast winds, somewhat cold- er and still unsettled with occa- sional rain or sleet. Georgian Bay: Northeast winds, and a lit tle colder with local falls of sleet or snow 'today and Wednesday, » (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) London, Feb, 25~Will Thorne, veteran Labor member of the House of Commons had certain objections to wearing court drcss, so in conse- quence the king invested him pri- vately with the Order of Compan- ion of the British Empire, conferred on Thorne in the New Year's hon- ors list, "You would be surprised to know the number of subjects the king rai- sed afterwards in conversation," Thorne said after the ceremony. "I ventured to congratulate the King on the restoration of his health. At the end of the interview I added: "I know something about the Am- ericam, and French republics but this is the freest country in the world, "Your Majesty." with the Canadian Wheat Pool offi- clals and with representatives of British millers, it had not been found possible to formulate a def inite agreement, stated Rt. Hon, J. H. Thomas in answer to questions in parliament today. He had every hope, however, that the conversations would lead to more regular exchange of Canadian wheat for British products, the minister added. fires which occurred today in Lu- ton Bedfordshire, and in Glasgow, Scotland. The Luton blaze, was in a large hat factory employing 150 persons, mostly women and girls. The fire raged so furiously that the roof soon, fell in and firemen concen- trated their attention on adjoining property. It is known that four girls are dead and it Is feared that other bodies may be in the wreck- age, an order of 40,000 tons of soft coal diately the St. Lawrence River was open for navigation, concerning the progress being made on the five steamers which, some (a months ago, he had said were to be ed, meant the ships was to be ghipped to Canada imme- ", This was his answer to questions built for the Canadian trade. Ship- ment of such an order, he intimat-|s were to be utilized, (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Chicago, Feb. 25.~Frank McEr. lane, whom gangland knows as its toughest" was shot three times, pro- bably fatally, by enemies last night s he lay already wounded on his bed in a private. hospital room. With his sight leg in a cast and wung high with pulleys and weights, his assailants as they fled into the corridor. One of the assailant's bullets piers ced McErlane's back; another hig wrist and a third lodged in the right thigh. As "Charles Miller McErlane gain ed entrance to the hospital, Jan. 23, for treatment of a bullet wound, McErlane grabbed a revolver from [which he said he accidentally inflict beneath his pillow and fired back at'ed, nist