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. r Oshawa Daily Succeeding The Oshawa Daily Reformer PY "All the News While It Is News" | av PAL SA, OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1930 15 Cents a Week; 3 Cents » Copy TWELVE PAGES Radio Licenses Ottawa. ~The Importance of radio in the present election was emphasized by a radio branch statement which shows there were 433,667 radio receiving licenses in effect in Canada on July 1, which 18 107,689 more than the Previous OAT, y J A Radio to China Nanking. ~The ministry of com- munications announced negotia- tions are proceeding with the Radio Corporation of America toward the establishment of radio Boy Saved From River Windsor.--A 13-year-old lad was hauled from the Detroit River yesterday by Murray Teahan, of Windsor, who, passing along Sand- wich stroet, heard the cries of the 18d. He rushed down the embank- ment and pulled the boy to safety, Ld LJ LJ Four Thefts Charged Hamilton, --Ralph Davies, an Indian, of Caledonia, is charged with the theft of four sutomo- bilos, His arrest was effected by Detective Bucket, who nabbed Davies as the latter was starting off in a car alleged to have been stolen, Ld LJ . Boy Mole Watches Toronto, --- Eighteen watches, with a total value of $1,000, stolen by a 14-year-old boy from a de- partment store, were recovered Inst night, The watches, of dif- ferent designs, ranged In value from $45 to $250 each, The boy "was arrested, SERIOUS FLOOD VISITS ENGLAND AFTER CLOUDBURST Two Lives Lost and Other Deaths Feared in Whitby, Yorkshire Sasdon Wire) » tby, Yorks s a July ' i lives are alr pe to have been Jost #nd other fatsl- ities are feared, in consequence of a flood that followsd upon a elolid- burst in the valley of the Bek rive or, A litebopt from this fishing port, squipped with rocket and other ile-anving apparatus, was busily sngaged far inland, away from {ts customary base, in an attempt to resoue the marooned people in the stricken district, The last connection with the vil- lage of sleights, in the centre of the flood area, was severed when the telephone wires brike down, Many families throughout the aren are 'mprisoned in the upper floors of their houses, HEROIC BUT VAIN ATTEMPT MADE T0 RESCUE AVIATOR Pilot Fought Desperately to Save Woodrow Eagle From Drowning (By Canadian Press Lansed Wire) Edmonton, July 24=The tale of a heroic battle by Dale Atkinson, north country pilot in the face of a terrific storm was told when pilot W. E. Gilbert of Western Canada Airways arrived from northern Saskatchewan with the hoy of Woodrow "Chuck Eagle, who died in a plane crash, Atkinson, whose plane turned over after landing on far-north Lake Nis- ku, came upon Gilbert's machine. Eagle died when Atkinson, runn- ing Into a terrific windstornt swung about, raced to Lake Nisku, landed and was pushing to shore. A cross. gust of wind iifted one wing of the plane, toppled it over on its back, and threw the occupants into the water. Fighting his way down through the turbglent waters, Atkinson smashed his way into the cabin on the ma- chine, found that his passenger way not there, and dived several tines in an effort to find him, Near exhaustion, Atkinson gave up the uneven battle and swam the dozen Ta te Aoi wait red on Ju an e Pp until 4 haters gave up the body on July 19, J in c----------------- ¢* WEATHER Press! is high over the grester "part of the United rd Canada, a deep depres ches over Hudson have occurred in Northe ii Ontario also in Western le in otther rts of the Low rk the ------~r has Lower lakes and Georgian Bay == Moderate southwest few scattered thume wers, Friday moderate and relatively low sion 20.29 yore ht seattered show. Saskatchewan and Alberta, been fair and warm, winds mostly fale and warm, bly & westerly winds falr and warm. KNOWN DEAD TOTAL 1,778 IN DISASTER Official List of Injured Totals 4,264 -- Hurricane and Tidal Wave Today Create New Panic in Stricken Area MUSSOLINI BANS ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS Government Taking Entire Responsibility of Caring For Victims Without Pri. vate Aid (By Canadian Press Lonsed Wire) Naples, Italy, July 24--Govern- ment officials this afternoon ex- pressed the fear that the earth- quake death list, oMcinlly given out at noon as 1,778 might be far ex- ceeded as the count progressed, Un. official reports sald 3,026 bodies had been taken from the ruins through the devastated territory, OMeial Report Rome, Italy, July 24--Govern- ment agents today qounted the dead In 85 cities and hamlets in the earthquake a'en and foubd that the known death list was 1,778 with 4,264 known Injured, The likelihood was that more vic. tims would be taken from the ruins as rescue work progressed. The province of Avellino contains 1,802 killed and 2,072 injured, and led the list of losses by more than a thousand over any other pro- vince, In Potenza 2321 were dead and B35 injured. In in 1,687 ware maimed and 120 killed, Bene. vento had 24 dead, 87 Injured. Naplos reported eight killed and 13 injured in two towns of that pro. vince, In Salerno two were killed and none Injured. Bari province re- ported serious damage in'the town of Canosa but apparently no per- son Injured, Campo Basso experi- enced heavy damage with none killed or Injured in the three towns affected, Subscriptions Banned After receiving these reports from under secretary of state Sig. nor laeonl, Premier Mussolin! is- sued an edict to prefects through- out the country forbidding public or private subscription lists in ald of the vietims, The government organized relief and supplied the means for all victims as fast an the thousands of workers could reach those tanks, The Duce announced th@ the council of ministers had taken all NOCOBAATY Omergency moasuroes, Hurricane Today Naples, Italy, July 24 «<A hurrl- cane which. at times kicked up what resembled a tidal wave struck Naples between 8 and 9 o'clock this morning just after most Neo- politans, shaken by Tuesday's earthquake, were convinced thelr soares were over for the present, ------------------------- cp ---------- " Grain Congestion Welland. ~~Almost two million bushels of grain is lying atloat™n Port Colborne harbor In seven upper-lake vessels waiting to un- load, DETROIT POLIGE SEEK GANGSTERS "Black Leo" Celurs and His Gang Thought Killers of Jerry Buckley (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Detroit, Mich, July 24. ~The police department announced to-day that "Black Leo" Celura and his gangster followers, notorious river characters are being sought in connection with the killing of Jerry Buckley, radio ans nouncer, ' Detectives working on the case ad. wanced the theory that Buckley was shot down early yesterday by mem- bers: of this gang because they bes lieved him responsible for the failure to "fix" the cases of two of their number now serving terms in a Can adian prison, Accordin theory $4, to the newest polica was paid in a futile at tempt to keep Frank Cammarata, no- torious Detroit gangster and Thomas Licavoli 'from being sent to Ports: mouth penitentiary for three years in 1927 for possessing firearms in Wind sor, The detectives believe the gangs sters blamed Buckley for the miscar: riage of their plans and felt that a "double cross" had taken place some: where along the line, INMURDER CASE 3,025 In an earthquake which occurred In Italy today, centred in viein. ity of Naples, it is estimated that shown two typical scenes from A---------- . DEATH TOLL 2,000 lost thelr lives. Here are the devastated areas: (1) pleturess "Corruption", King Says of Tory Provincial Practices Thompson Up, Canadian Open Equals Course Record of 66, "Three Better Than His Nearest Opponent (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Ancaster, July 24 Equalling the course rocord for the second time this year, Nicol Thompson, sr, professional at the Hamilton Golt Club, shot a 68 over his home course today and took u substantial lead, In the Canadian open golf championship. The rocord for the course was jointly held by Thompson gnd the late J. Douglas Edgar of Atlanta, Ga,, who played a round In 66 in winning the title at Ancaster In 1019, Charles Lacey, of Philadelphia, Poun., finished with a 60, oni under par, The feature of the morning's play was the surprisingly good showing made by the Canadians, who have not held the title wince 1014. When B06 of the approxi- mately 150 players had finished the first round, it was found that of tho first twelve who got 73 and under, half of thom were Canadians, J. R. Heaney of Rochester, N. Y., with a par 70, held the lead until Lacey and then Thompson colipsed his mcore, FF, M. Lyon, amatour of the Lambton Ceub, To- ronto, and son of George 8. Lyon, Canada's famous veteran, furned in a card 6f 71. He tied with the noted Jim Barnes who also had a Lex Robwon, of Toronto, runner. up for the Ontario opeh title, scored a 72, : -------------------- LORD DAVIDSON LEFT $160,000 ESTATE (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) London, Eng, July 24<The will of the fate Lord Davidson of Lambeth, until 1928 Archbishop of Canterbury and highest ranking ecclesiasiic in the English church, was probated to- day at one hundred and sixty thous. and dollars, At the time of his resig- nation two' years ago Lord Davidson received a gift of nearly fifty thous. and dollars from world-wide subscrip« tions, This sum is left to the pres ent Archbishop of Canterbury for general church needs as they may arise, WINS CANADIAN TENNIS HONORS Toronto, July 24=Miss Christie Clewlo, of Toronto, today won the junior ladies Canadian tennis cham. pionship, defeating Miss B. "Oaks, also of this city, in the final round 6:1 and 6:4, RE ---- ARES IE ERR I a] (By Ray Brown, Canadian Press Staff Correspondent) Chesley, Ont, July 24. As the campaign deaws nearer to its close, Premier MacKenzie King's dail meetings increase in number Yes terday the prime minister spoke at three different points in this part of Ontario, He gave short addresses at Palmerston and Hanover, and he wa the chief speaker at a great evening meeting here Early this morning Mr. King eft for Tilbury, where he will speak this afternoon while in the evening he will give an address at Stratford hese are the scheduled meetings, but there is every possibility of- others Teropping up as the prime. minister proceeds from place to place Last night's meeting here was held in the open air, and. the crowd was estimated at ten thousand people The word "corruption" was used the prime minister in describing the process which he claimed had been adopted by Conservative gov ernments in Ontario, New Brunswick and Saskatchewan, of holding up ex (Continued on Page 10) hy Saves Drowning Boy Wallacoburg.~Adelard Emery, 11, son of David Kmery, is a hero in Wallaceburg ns the result of n brave rescus from drowning of Herman Schrans, 10. . \d . Little Girl Killed Windsor. PFive-year<old Corin- na Jeneroaux was instantly killed yesterday when the wheels of an fee truck passed over her chest, PROBE FINING OF GENERAL MACBRIEN Hoover Starts Investigation into Conviction for Illegal Entry (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) 8t. Paul Minn, July 24-An In- vestigation by President Hoover's office of thé action of United Sta- tos customs agents at St, Paul who recently fined Major-General J, A, MacBrion $600 for alleged failure to report arrival by plane in the United States has been promised in a letter from (leorge Akerson, sec. retary to the President, Genera! MacBrien flew from Canada to Chicago thence to St, Paul aftor sending a telegram to the former city notifying the cus. toms department when he would arrive, Because Chicago has not heen designated officially an a port of entry, no customs agent record od his entry, " Aftor reaching St, Paul, General tives of a localr-yKqooallgETAOL MacBrien made another effort to report hig entry hut representa tives of a local alrways company sald they could find no customs agents, The next day, however, a customs agent took General Mao. Brien into custody and he wag fin. od $600 for alleged failure to re- port to the cugtoms department as required by law, | PON TECORVA = AA Yeilll AVELLNO uwiIvs STEADILY MOUNTING que town of Amalfi, whic scene dn Naples, which wa trem was dn thrown Notorious Man Being Sought In Murder Case Wanted For | | Jake Fleagle, | Murder in Colorado, Seen in Hamilton (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Toronto, July 24-Jake H Fleagle, alias Holden, Baker, Reed, Wilson and Barnett, wanted on a murder charge in Colorado and for whose arrest a reward of $13,000 is offered is being sought by police invostigating the murder of Phils Ip G. Rumbold, Tonawanda, N.Y who wag found strangled and beats on to death in his car pear Port Credit, Ont, Tuesday, No further reason is given for Fleagle's alleged participation in the crime heyond the fact that Hamilton eitizens claim to have goen him in that eity Monday af- ternoon. Rumbold was found slain the next morning some hours af ter he was supposed to have met an unknown person in Hamilton, Fleagle is wanted in Colorado for the murder of four persons in a bank robbery. Three of his gang have been executed for the erime, Police uncovered another clue in the fact that the rope, the straps and, the hammer which were used in the Rumbold murder all belong to the equipment of Slate Roof workers, . No arrests have heen made in this connection, Toremto, July 24~Continuing their viligent efforts to logate the slayers of Philip C. Rumbhold, wealthy Tona- wanda, N.Y, real estate, operator, whose battered body was found in an abandoned automobile on a lonely road near Port Credit on Tuesday, Ontario. provineial polic officers made several important ride last night, 1 The chief of these was the fact that Rumbold had been in Hamilton on business during the afternoon preceding his death, The naturg of the business is known to police and explains the reason for the murdered man's deviating froin the recognized route from Niagara Falls to Barrie, All through yesterday and last night the police worked on FS gual: ing cyge with starcely a hal? Start. ng af®he customs office in Niagara Falls, Ontario, police chocked Rum- bold's trail to Hamilton where the last and most important clue was found, The murder has served to focus attention on conditions alleged to have existed on the highway in the Port Credit district for some months, Recently stories have been circulated of the invasion of United States ""racqueteer" methods, Road houses proprietors, it is said, have been threatened and: told to leave large sums of money in cetain places, One establishment was recently held up and robbed of $800 it became known today. Sudbury,~=M, Niemi and V. Rytkonen, Finlanders, were kille in the Frood mine by a fall of earth and a companion was slight ly injured, The men were working on the 2,200-foot level, ". Earthquake Death Toll Unofficially Said 3,000 Killed in Italian Earthquake SALERNO POTENZA | SALA CONSILINA * _/" % i and (8) map showing affected area, | / &) the path of the quake; (2) street into complete darkness by the CAMPAIGN ENDING IN BITTERNESS PERSONALITIES, TAUNTS AND CHARGES FEATURING FINAL DAYS OF CAMPAIGN Testing Speed Boat, Two Drown (By Canadian Press Lessed Wire) Fort William, July 24---Bidney Wilkinson, garage proprietor and his nephew Bernard Hamer were drowned last night in the Kamin- istiquia river, They were testing an outboard motor speed boat which they were disposing of to a customer, The two men were in the stern of the boat which was travelling about 20 miles per hour and two mechanics, Gordoz Murdoch and Charles Fraser, were crouched in the bow, According to thelr story the boat gave a sudden lurch and when they recovered their halance and looked hack they saw that the | two men in the stern had been thrown overboard, They seized the and got the boat turned round but were too late tn rescue the men Wilkingon they never saw and Hamer sank from sight hefore they had the hoat under control, SEGRAVE'S ESTATE "TOTALS $82,000 (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) London, Eng, July 24--The estate of the late Sir Henry Segrave, king of speed on land and water, who lost his life when his Miss England 11 upset in Lake Windermere last month, amounted to eighty-two thous sand dollars, it is announced, steering gear to Defeat Kin People Straining at Leash g, Bennett Says (By Thomas Green, Canadian Press Saft Correspondent) Owen Sound, July 24, In prob ably the most vigorous speech of his campaign, Hon, R. B., Bens 'nett, Conservative Leader, here last night warmly declared that "when a P'rime Minister is clutch ing for power, heaten, defeated gone, and, grasping out, says: 'I stand for Great Britain first,' it is an insult to the Canadian people The first duty of a Canadian statesman Is Canada, a Canad: within the Empire," The Consers vative Loader had reference to the reported speech of Premier King at Barrie. Heatedly, Mr, Bennett condemned the Prime Minister for "daring to try to impugn the love of the Conservative Party for the British Empire, whilo his follower, Liguori Lacombe in Quebec (Laval. Two Mountainsi, is denouncing ma as an Imperialist and an English. man." The Opposition Leader charged that Mr. King, after adopting a (Continued on Page 10) MONTREAL STAR REPLIES T0 KING Special Edition Favoring Budget Was Just Adver. tising Flysheet July 24<The Montreal Star had editorially replied to Rt, Hon, W, 1..° Mackenzie. King, who Tuesday night at a mass meeting here stated the paper had published an edition for circulation in Great Bris tain which took a very different posi» tion on the Dunning budget from that taken in a recent editorial in the pape published in Canada, i» i fhe paper in question, the editorial stated, was an advertising flysheet, sent out by the Montreal Star after adoption of the Dunning budget, This fly-sheet contained the tariff revis- fons in full, It further contained an advertising agent's exhortation to the British manufacturers and exporters to take advantage of the increased British preference to cultivate the Canadian market, "It was a pure business undertak- inging, intending to increase Cana: dian trade with Great Britain, 1f this be a sin, Mr. King must make Montreal, CRASHES TRAIN, 1S SLIGHTLY HURT (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Stratford, July 24.-~Elwood Murray, this city, is resting quietly in hospital after an encounter with a freight train at the Canadian Na» Sonat Rallway crossing here to ay After his car had boen dragged for over 300 feet along the tracks and reduced to a mass of wrecks uge Elwood climbed out, none the worse oxcept for some scratches 'and brulses, the most of it," the editorial stated, | See Gandhi In Peace Effort Prolonged Interviews Grant. ed Mediators by Native Leader in Jail (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Poona, India, July 24--Mahat- ma Gandhi, Indian Nationalist leader, today again saw Bir Te) Bahadur Sapru, M, Jayakar, Lib- eral leaders, who have heen trying to bring a settlement of the eivil disobedience campaign, who have conversation with which they is- sued the following statemeny; "We visited Gandhl yesterday and to-day and have had prolong- ed Interviews with him, We laid before him all the facts In our pos. session, He has given us a mess age In writing for the pandits Mot. {lal Nehru and Jawaharlal Nehru which we are taking to Allahabad" They will proceed to Bombay to- morrow enroute to Allahabad, NOTORIOUS MEMBER BACK IN COMMONS (By Canadian Press«Lensed Wire) London, Eng, July 24.~John Beck- ett, Labor member of the House of Commons, who on July 17 caused a scandal by seizing the speaker's mace, this afternoon resumed his seat in the house. Within a few minutes after parliament had heen called to order he was on his feet ta ask a question of Hon, J, H, Clynes, home secretary, HAMILTON GIVEN RELEASE ON BAIL Stratford Lawyer Is Appeal. ing Conviction for False Pretenses (By Canadian Press: Leased Wire) Toronto, July 24], Cecil Hamil ton, Stratford lawyer, who was sens tenced to two years imprisonment by Judge Folan yesterday, following his conviction on a charge of false: pre. tences, was granted bail in amount of §25000 pending his appeal, by Mr, Justies Orde at Osgoode Hall to: dav, His Lordship's order is being rush. ed to Stratford to allow Hamilton's release from jail, J, W, Pickup ap- peared for Hamilton at to-day's ap lication and 1. A, Humphries, K.C,, or the crown, An appeal against the conviction was announced yester- day at Stratford by R. S. Robertson, | "campaign Conservatives Bitter in Ate tacks on King--Bennett Says He Is "Flapping in Assumed Mantle of Pat. riotism"' PREMIER REPLIES WITH GRAVE CHARGE Conservative Governments Practising "Corruption" in Road Construction Program, He Declares Provincial (By George Hambleton, Canadian Press Staff Correspondent) Ottawa, Ont, July 24--The came paign ends in bitterness and person- alities, in taunts and charges and €ounter-charges., With only threes fighting days left, federal leaders arm' crowding new meetings into their al. ready over-crowded schedules From Regina, premier Anderson of Saskatchewan is heard in sharp re | joinder to Premier Taschereau oi Quebec Premier Taschereau had charged Dr, Anderson with attempt «| INg to remove from thel French schools Saskatchewan, Premier Anderson retorts with at tack on Premier King for allowing a of false propaganda'® against him in the province .of Que ~ hee, "I am represented as a destroy er of schools," Dr, Anderson exclaims and charges that young Liberals in Quebec are distributing a cartoon showing the burning of a school with himself in the foreground and teach ers escaping with the children, i Hectic Meetings From Quebec reports continue fo drift in of hectic meetings, of both organizations battling with storm. At St, Peter's market hall in Quebec city, the crowd is so turbulent that neither Liberal nor Conservative cans didate can make himself heard, The meetings are cancelled. Both organs zations. turn to commhmee rooms, But thousands wait outside Over the radio, Senator Lemieux former speaker of the House of Commons recalls the anticonscription riots in Quebec, "Who of vou wilt forget the presence of troops in the streets of St. Toch" Senator Lem- teux questions, "I only saw Laurier ery once in my life and that wag when a Toronto regiment reached Quebec to start a reign of terror," Ferguson Bitter Premier Taschereau has eoncluded his tour and is not expected to speak again daring the campaign, But Pre« mier Ferguson=continuing this bat tle of provincial premiers--is bitten as ever in his attacks on Premien King, "The year 1930 will go down' in history as a remarkable vear," Premier Ferguson caustieally charges at Windsor, Ont, "because it is the year MacKenzie King discovered tha British Empire, He ran away in 1914 but he was a returned man after the war was over," At Owen Sound Mr, Bennett describes Premier King as clutching for power, beaten, de- feated, gone--flapping and wra ping himseli in the assumed mantle of patriotism," From Chesley, onl, Premier King bitterly attacks the, Conservatives provincial administrations in Sasks atchewan, New Brunswick and One tario, He charges that they have held up expenditure on road eons struction till just before the election, Premier King does not hesitate to stigmatize it as "corruption." The time has come," he exclaims," for the people of Capada to rise up and strike a blow at this kind of thing." And at Winnipeg, Hon, Hugh Guthrie who was temporary Consers vative house leader prior to the ap« pointment of Mr, Bennett, describes the Dunning budget as a revision ups wards, downwards, crosswise and di« agonally---any way you like, The real cause of it, Mr, Guthrie asserts ed, is that while the western farm« er wants free trade, Quebec follows ers of the government want protecs tion--and protection, good and stiff, crucitixes mn Emigration Halved Regina,-- Emigration from the Canadian Prairies to the United States has been cut in half, I; R, Blohm; United States Consul at Regina, has reported that only 4068 Canadians were routed by his office to new homes in the States during the first six months of CITY INUNDATED AFTER HEAVY RAIN By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Karachi, India, July 24,.--Rain+ fall of more than six inches in the last 24 hours today found this olty inundated, its streets impass- able, all vehicles abandened "and communication with the rest of India cut off since an hour after K.C, chief defense counsel, midnight,