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s a "All the News While It Is News" er uty SOU § The Oshawa Daily Times Succeeding The Oshawa DtyRajeformer A Growing Newspaper. in a Growing City VOL. 6--NO. 48 Published Osha Canada : Day Except Sundays and Public Every OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1930 15 Cents a Week; 3 Cents a Copy TWENTY-TWO PAGES ! ¢ News in Brief (By _anadian Prees) | poy Wine and Brew Trade Drops Tokyo.--Hard times is the ex- planation given by experts for a (falling off in Japan's consumption of its natural brew, sakeh, or rice wine, The government campaign for economy is expected to cause ja further sharp drop. » - - f One Dead After Brawl Preeceville, Sask.--Paul Kwas- ny, 16, is dead, his brother, Steve, seriously injured, and a third man received knife wounds in a braw which followed a dance here. . LJ Ld i Chinese Believed Burned New Westminster, B.C.--Les | Shoo, 56, a Chinese, is missing, and Is believed to have been burned to death in a. fire that destroyed a Shingle mill near Coquitlam yes- terday. * * - Churches Are Bill Boards Rome.--The billboard and post- er nuisance is coming in for its share of abuse in Rome. Not content with plastering walls and fences with recommdations of | their wares, a number of over im- gportunate advertisers have been (putting them up on the principal eure. | uw « >» Pensions For Loyalty '! h Semones, France.-- This city ves small pensions of $6 a year lor less to workers who prove their loyalty to the town by winning a government medal for 30 years' pm Te service in one establish- ent, The rewards are designed to heck the drift to the larger cities. * = = i Toothache Hurts Twice i' Toronto.--While James Peadon, focal gasoline station attendant fbrossed the street to purchase fsomething to soothe a toothache he livas bothered with, three thieves obbed the station cash register of 50 in cash. They escaped. f Dies at Friend's Funeral # Chatham.--Thomas M. Edmond- kon, 77, while attending the fun- pral of a life-long friend, John (Houston, was seized with a heart lattack and died before medical aid pould be summoned. 1 Double Kitchener Death Kitchener.--Miss Mary Snider, Yormer matron of the Kitchener or- ihhanage, died at her home, a few hours before her foster son, James Snider, who died Saturday night, was to be buried. il * > * ! Will Aid Wheat Pool i WIDE UNION Tardieu Is Charged With Forming Ministry After Poincare Says Health Too Frail, But He Will Act in Advisory Capacity NAVAL CONFERENCE IS MARKING TIME If Successful Tardieu Will Return to London Naval Negotiations Which Were Broken When His Party Was Defeated on Minor Budget Issue (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Paris, Feb. 26. -- Former Premier Andre Tardieu this afternoon definitely = accepted the task of forming a new cab- inet to succeed the Chautemps ministry which was thrown out by the chamber of deputies last night. Paris, Feb, 26--With the Chau- temps cabinet down in ruins, Presi- dent Doumergue today entrusted the task of forming a new cabinet to Andre Tardieu who will seek to form a wide union. cabinet with the aid Regina.~-1n., the whElsiatura yes- day Premier To . And ave notice that he would Thurs- lay introduce a bill providing for bank guarantee by the provincial kovernment to the wheat pool, the | irst reading of the bill to be giveun hn that day. at h Gets Spring Fever Woodstock.--Snow drops bloom- g, frogs croaking, a June bug craw- ling along a sidewalk all these signs f Spring's approach were too much lor Joseph Holmes, Dundas street, J onsequently; he got busy with spade nd hoe and now has a good-sized legetable plot all nicely planted in lettuce, onions and spinach.A select fathering of friends stood by and i heered on the ambitious gardener. ll Threats to Bomb U. S. Senate Washington.--Threats to bomb the United States Senate Chamber, and hointed intimations to variols Senat- yrs to the effect that it would be wore healthful for them to absent hemselves from the Capitol for vary- ng periods have resulted in the pla- fling .of additional guards and other \xtraordinary precautionary meas- res. Ld . Pray for Naval Parley London.--What is hoped will be a \eriod of world-wide silent prayer, asting two minutes, for the success I'f the naval conference in securing |isarmament will be observed at Vestminster Abbey at 5 p.m., on Sat 'rday, March 5 . { Heavy Fine for Bank . Rio de Japeiro~The Brazilian in- |ipector-general of banks, Senor Ra- 8} nalho Ortigao, has ordered a fine of | 1cacly $3,000,000 imposed upon the Jational City Bank, American fin- incial institution, for alleged fraudu- gnt exchange transactions in its Sao Paulo branch during Jecent months. Three Drowned in Sewer Minneapolis, Minn.--~Trapped ana rowned by a sudden rush of rain- yater through a sewer In which ney were working, the bodies of lhree city employees were recover- 'd from the Mississippi River to- lay, while a fourth man, who es- aped, recounted in a hospital his xperience. WEATHER . - An area of low pressure cen ; tred over Ohio east i mortheastward to Newfound- ; land has caused some rain and + snow in . many districts from the Great Lakes eastward. | Pressure is high over Northern Canadian 'West and it has become colder in most districts throughout Canada. . : Forecasts: Lower Lake Re- glon--Northeast winds; cold with occasional light snow or sleet, Thursday--Continu | cold with probably. sn ples. n Bay-----North- east winds; partly cloudy and | cold today and Thursday, local | snowflurries: of Raymond Poincare, veteran French statesman. The President first called in Tar- dieu this morning and asked him to form a ministry but Tardieu refused and suggested former Premier Poin- care, offering to take portfolic un- der him which would include his re- turning to the London Naval Con- ference which has been marking time pending solution of the French cab- inet crisis. Poincare, however, also refused the post pleading that his health would be wrecked if he t ok the ruins now before his strength was restored. He is still convalescing from his recent illness. He advised President Dou- mergue to insist on Tardieu serving as the new premier. Later Poincare announced on leav- ing the Elysee Palace that Tardieu had been' charged with the mission of forming a new cabinet and that he would begin con:ultations at the Poincare residence this afternoon re- garding the membership of the new ministry. 3 Poincare said he had promised President Doymergue he would help Tardieu form a wide union cabinet. Such a union cabinet appears to of- fer the only possible solution of the (Continued on Page 2) CONVICTED SHOW MAGNATE 1S ILL Alexander Pantages Suffers Heart Attacks in Cali- forpia Jail (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Los Angeles, Feb. 26.--Alexan- der T. Pantages ,theatre magnate, convicted of assault, was reported to be seriously ill in the county jail here today. e multi-millionaire suffered the most serious of a ser- ies of heart attacks Sunday, and attendants declared his condition shows no improvement. Pantages was convicted last Oc- tober of attacking Eumice Pringle, 17-year-old dancer and fonfined in the country jail te await the outs come of an appeal from a one to fifty year penitentiary sentence. Poincare Will Help FORMER PREMIER PLANS CABINET TO CONQUER bIVIDED ROUSE POST OFFIGE WILL KEEP CONTROL OF WIRELESS PHONES Labor Newspaper Says Rug- by Services More Econom. ical and Easily Expended (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) * London, Feb, 26--When the Im- perial*and International Commun- ications Limited was formed to combine Imperial Wireless and Cable Facilities, it was generally expected it would become an em- pire monopoly. But the Dally Her- ald, labor organ, today reports the government has reached an im- portant decision for the future of wireless telephones, having decided to retain these facilities under the British post office. The operation of telephone services by beam wire- less will therefore be divided be- tween the government and the semi-official service, The company which bad resuletd from the Empire cable conference and the merger of the old and in- dividul companies, had been seek- ing to' operate the overseas beam telephone gervices through its ex- isting beam stations to Canada, Australia, South Africa and India, It was claimed these would elimi- nate duplication of effort and re- sult in greater efficiency. But the government intends to retain the post office service oper- ated from Rugby, on the ground ft is more economical and more eas- ily expended. The Postmaster-General, Hon. H. B, Lees-Smith, 1 sxepected to make an early announcement in this regard. It was recentl yreported that a reduction of 50 per cent in the beam telephone rates beiween Bu- rope and North American points might be expected as a result of increased traffic. Marchman Sane To Stand Tria Jury Finds Self-Confessed Murderer of Bear Lake Woman Sane (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Lindsay, Ont., Feb, 26--A jury in the assize court hearing the case of Walter Marchman, alias Joseph Nor- man, who is charged with the mur- der of Mrs. Everton Switzer, at hm Bear Lake home last January, today decided the accused was sane and fit to stand trial. Witnesses at yesterday's hearing testified the accused was of strange temperment .and for this reason had been unable to secure employment. Dr. Stephenson, superintendent of the Hospital for Insane at Whitby, said Marchman suffered from a form of insanity known as dementia prea- cox. 75,000 CANADIANS MAY ENTER U.S. ANNUALLY i] (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Washington, Feb. 26.--Restric- tion of western hemisphere immi- gration to an annual total of 76, 074, including 67,6566 for Canada and Newfoundland and 2,900 for Mexico, was proposed in a bill to- day by Chairman Johnson of the House Immigration Committee. (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Geneva, Feb, 26--Need for a new definition of war was remark- ed today by the International.Coms mittee of Jurists seeking to amend the League of Nations covenant so as to shut out war entirely. Dr, F. W, Bulaw of Germany pointed out that in the far East troubles, hundreds of persons have been killed and towns bombarded without a declaration of war. Lord Cecil of Great Britain agreed and urged that "concerted International Body Seeks New Definition for War international aclton,, in the inter- ests of peace should go by some other name than war. To call such concerted show of force by the name that characterizes every kind of armed conflict between nations, he said, was llké employing the world "assault" to describe the ar- rest of a criminal by a policeman, Discussion . today - centered on proposed amendments to article of the covenant which provides, in a dispute likely to lead to war, that the parties submit to arbitration. CAMILLE CHAUTEMPS Following the defeat of the gov- ernment of Premier Chautemps in the French Chamber of Deputies yesterday, Andre Tardieu, his pre- ANDRE TARDIEU decessor as premier, accepted an in- vitation to form a new government. M. Tardieu has been assured of the EX-PREMIER POINCARE * support and co-operation of former Premier Poincare in his task of forming a New Ministry. Indian States Want Foreign Representation Lord Irwin, Viceroy, Will Consider Princes' Chamber Resolution f--_--- -v New Delhi, India, Feb. 26.-- The native states of India want for- elgn representation. The Chamber of Princes, which has declared its settled policy of loyalty to the crown, adopted an important reso- lution last night urging that the Indian native princes should lead an Indian delegation to the League of Nations at least once every three years, India, like the other members of | the British Commonwealth of Na- tions, is an independent member of the league. The chamber's action indicated its belief that the native | states should be preponderant over British India, so far as the league is concerned, on certain occasions. Lord Irwin, the Viceroy, assured the chamber the resolution would have his sympathetic consideration, But he pointed out the difficulty of promising any commitment, so leng as constitutional changes were still under discussion. Any such move will have to await the conclusion of the round table conference and the Simon commission's report on sta- tutory reform, PREMIER PREDICTS Claims It Is Best Way to] Deal With Unemploy- ment (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Ottawa, Feb. 26.--Eventually Canada will have g system of un- employment insurance, Premier Mackenzie King predicted today in replying to a deputation seeking federal aid to municipalities and provinces on unemployment relief. This, he sald, was the only con structive way to deal with the un- employment situation and he hopea it would soon be possible to work out #n insurance plan. Seasonal measures in the way of relief and public works were of no permanent assistance and an insur- ance plan offered the only con- structive way of avoiding distress. Will Build Refinery Montreal ~--Noranda's new copper refinery will be located on the Island of Montreal, a permit having been granted yesterday by the Metropoli- tan Commission to Canadian Copper Refiners, Limited; to erect a plant within the limits of the town of Montreal East. Construction must be begun not, later than next May. The plant will cost about $2,000,000. British Engineer: Is Slain in India (By Canadian Press Leased Wire New Delhi, India, Feb, 26.-- Lieut. Hawkes of the Royal Engin- eers was murdered while he slept in his bungalow at Landikotal, it was reported today. The assassins, who are believed to have been rob- INSURANCE PLAN Chinese Bandits Loot Missions (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Hankow, Feb. 26.--Bandits report- ed to have raided and burned Cath- olic missions, at Tsenchinghu and Lachingkow, neighboring towns 120 miles up the Han river from here, The mussionairies learned of the bandits' approach and escaped to Shasc, Hupeh. The bandits were said to have looted the missions and then poured oil on the buildings and fired them. NINE PERSONS INJURED IN TRAIN WRECK TRAIN LEFT TRACKS AT HOLLAND LANDING None of the Passengers, However, Are Seriously Injured / (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Toronto, Feb. 26.--Train No. 46 of} the Canadian National Railways, bound from North Bay to Toronto, was derailed at 545 am, today at a point near Holland Landing, on the Newmarket subdivision, according to an official statement issued at noon today by W. A. Kingsland, general manager of the Central region C.N.R. Nine passengers were reported as having received slight injuries but none required hospital attention, The cause of the derailment is reported as a broken rail, the statement said. The train was in charge of Con- ductor J. Lee and Engineer Hadden. The baggage car, express car and second class coach left the rails but remained upright, while the first class coach and four Pullmans were tilted at an agle of about 45 degrees, the statement said, A relief train and auxiliary left Allandale immediately upon report of the derailment, accompanied by the company doctor. The Toronto auxil- jary was also' rushed to the scene. The passengers were transferred to the relief train and continued their journey to Toronto, where the com- pany had arranged to serve break- fast upon arrival, the statement said. Port Arthur.---W. 8. Newton and company were appointed trustee of the George W. Matthews and Com- pany brokerage firm at a meeting of creditors of the firm here. The company assigned early in Fébru- ary. FIRE DESTROYS CATHOLIC CHURCH Priest Vainly Attempts to Save Holy Host in $50,000 Blaze (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Three Rivers, Que., Feb, 26.-- The Catholic Church of Sacred Heart at Baie de Shawinigan was completely destroyed today, With a total loss of $50,000, Father D. Grenier vainly attempted to save bers, escaped. the holy host. The church was of wooden construction. % {: government is preparing to make Great Britain Wants Action At Conference Meeting of Delegates Today Decides to Resume Parley London, Feb, 26.--The chief de- legates to the Naval Conference to- day decided 'to resume work im- mediately on their negotiations and to continue on the work except where it might be inimical to French interests, The delegates decided that the recess which was taken on the de- feat of the Tardieu government in Paris would cease today. Ambassador Aime De Fleuriau of France attended the meeting on be- half of the French and explained that former Premier Tardieu had been to the Elysee Palace with the view of forming a new cabinet. (By George Hambleton, Canadian Press Staff Correspondent) London, Feb. 26.--Great Britain wants to get along with the job of naval reductions, Despite the sec- ond setback to the naval confer- ence, in the defeat of the French ministry last night, the British another effort to get something tangible from the conference. In Premier Ramsay MacDonald's room in the house of commons this afternoon the heads of all the dele- gations in London met to discuss the situation." They had before (Continued on Page 2) FROTH-BLOWERS FOUNDER DEAD Sir Alfred Fripp Was Sur- geon in Ordinary to the King (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) West Lulworth Dorset, England, Feb. 26--Sir Alfred Fripp, widely known surgeon and founder of "The Ancient Orden of Froth Blowers," died here today. Sir Alfred Fripp was surgeon in ordinary to the King and to the Duke of Connaught and was a con- sulting surgeon in the Royal Navy, He also held numerous medical posts on the boards of various hos- pitals and was widely known for hie works in the medical field. Sir Alfred was known as "The Grand Typhoon of the Ancient Or- der of Froth-Blowers," an organ- ization he formed several years ago which apart from drinking beer had entirely charitable aims. Australia Wheat SPEND NIGHT IN- TOWN HALL AFTER SERIOUS FLOODS Dunnville Suffers Thousands of Damage as Grand River Floods Town (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Hamilton, Feb, 26.--Dunnville counted the damage today after the most disastrous flood ever to strike a town in the Grend river valley. Thousands upon thousands of dol- lars loss have been suffered, be- sides the great hardship inflicted upon the people, Those who did not see the town at the height of the flood, would find it hard to realize the extent of the mass of ice and water which covered the area, Streets were filled two to three feet deep, motor cars marooned and people penned in their houses while only boats and canoes were to be seen travel- ling along the flooded roads. The hospital was pumped free of water by the fire department as the river receded during the night, and this morning other important buildings were freed of their bur- den of slush and ice. The city hall has been turned over to refugees and a number of people made their home in the munfcipal building last night. The big bridge across the river was wholly blocked, but today the highway department squad of men at work, and suc- ceeded in cutting a path for pedes- trians through the miniature moun- tains of ice. . Motor traffic is not yet possible. With the coming of colder wea- ther, and the breaking of the ice jam, the river is steadily receding, day. by the basement were soaked. right of way and buildings, Epidemic of Situation Is Well in Hand (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) London, Ont., Feb. 26.--"The rabies situation in this district is well in hand, and no further /de- velopments of any serious copse- quence are anticipated," stated Dr. J. Bovaird, dominion government veterinary officer for ther counties of Middlesex, Elgin, Lambtor and Huron, to the Canadian Press foday, There has not been one singh case in this district of poison Or animal being bitten by ¢ogs mn- ning loose since the firsyof Janu- ary," the doctor stated, "All dogs are tied up and are jader strict government supervisiof'" "There is no epidghic in this district," Dr. Bovifd declared. "Occasionally some /£ the owner's cattle are bitten his own dog, and later, varying generally from one to three moni. rabies develop in these cattle, ad deaths occur, but this is a diyct result of irgec- tion at the tiny the dog. was de- stroyed, and due to the disease gpreading in infectioils manner from one beft to another." had a large and Dunnville was almost free of water, except in low lying spots to- The heaviest loss was suffered Monarch Knitting: Mills whose stores of materials in their Individual losses will be heavy, besides the damage suffered by the railway to Rabies Denied Government Inspector Says NINE PERISH IN INDIAN SCHOOL FIRE C.N.R. Train Derailed Near Barrie Tardieu Form New Cabinet OUTSTANDING FIGURE S IN FRENCH POLITICAL CRISIS SISTER SUPERIOR, ALONG WITH EIGHT PUPILS, LOSES LIFE IN MANITOBA BLAZE Sister Superior Margaret of Dross Lake Indian School Died in Brave Effort to Lead Children to Safety PROPERTY LOSS IS SAID TO BE $200,000 Another Sister Sustains Frac- tured Spine in Leap From Second Floor of Burning Building The Pas, Man., Feb. 26.-- Sister Superior Margaret of Mary and eight young Indian pupils perished in a fire yester- day at the Cross Lake Indian School. Sister Jeanne Deschantel broke her spine in a leap from the second floor. A Consolidated Mining and Smelting plane may start from here soon to carry Bishop Ovide Charlebois to the scene of the disaster, and the plane will bring here the injured = Sister Des- chantel. Word of the fire was brought to The Pas by a man who had driven from Cross Lake, 55 miles southeast of Wabowden, the nearest railway station. The cause of the fire is not known, It is thought that it started on the third floor of the building, in the west part of the main section, as that is where the Indian girls were quar- tered. Tried to Save Children The Sister Superior died in a brave attempt to lead some of the children through the flames to safety. All of the children who perished 'were un- der nine years of age. Bishop Charlebois estimated today that the property loss would reach $200,000 The school was a three storey stone structure built in 1914. An ad- dition was built in 1920. The bodies of the Sister Superior and her eight pupils will be brought to The Pas on Friday. Probably they will be buried here. The heroine of the fire the Sister Superior, was born in a little village near St. Boniface, Quebec. She was an Oblate Sister of St. Boniface. She came to northern Manitoba in 1914, when the school was built at Cross Lake, remaining there until 1920 when she returned to Quebec. Three years later she came back to Cross Lake to take charge of the school. The names of the children are not available. Ten thousand homesteads wera taken up jn the upper Peace River country during the past two years, --Canadian Colonizer, CHINESE GOV'F--- BUYING PLANES Preparing To .Cope With Uprising Expected in ; the Spring (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Shanghai, Feb. 26.~Military head- quarters of the Nationalist govern ment today indicated that an order had been placed for 12 Ryan bomb- ing costing $725,000, Mexican (about 40,000) for use "against various el« ements which the government .ap- parently believes are planning to ---- A Massadusetts man has built a house ent®l¥ of newspapers, fold- ed, comp/8sed and varnished, and equipped! With furniture made of the sap mMaterical. h a drive against the Nanking regime this spring. The Nationalists believe that Yen Hai-Shan "Mode! . Governor" of Shansi province, is the leader of the anti-Nanking move. / (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Ottawa, Feb. 26.--Should the Pool Is Endorsed | \ Melbourne, Australia, Feb, 26. The cabinet of the Victoria Stat Government has endorsed the commendations of the premi conference for a compulsory tralian wheat marketing pool. islation will be prepared forfub- mission to the state assemblyAt an early date, After the conffence, the pool scheme had beenAurned back to the state governm/nts for consideration. The federa/ govern- ment has promised a gfaranteed price of 96 cents a bushy, deliver- national {lag become a live issue at uy] the comilg session of parliament, or at any. {me in the future. Canadian fon, representing the war veteranSof Canada, has a fix- uestion of a distinctive Canadian The ed policy reat tc submit to patrlias ment, Believik they ghould have a voice in the Gestion, the legion has drawn UD iy policy, which they believe 18 th\gn1v hroner go. lution of the Udo, 415u1d the pressure for a Cabyin national flag become so Ere as "to make action necessary. \ ed at country sidings, fof one year. While asserting the W, thay ; mg Cmadian Legion Satisfied / With Union Jack as Flag Union Jack should be retained as the official national flag of Canada, the Legion members have put for- ward & moderaté compromise be- tween those = strongly opposed to any distinctive Canadian flag, and those, who démand a national flag. The Legion policy maintains there i8 no realheed for a separate Cana- dian flag, but should the agitation become such that it fs decided to adopt a national flag, the only de- sign acceptable to ex-service men of Canada must retain the Union Jack as the dominant feature, with some symbol such gs the maple leaf or the Canadian Svat of arms erin sed thereon.