he Osha nc WITH WHICH 18 INCORPORATED a Daily Refo THE OSHAWA TELEGRAM er ammuaabieer ba mali rmey -- -- VOL. 54--NO. 173 Published at Oshawa, Ont., Canali, Every Day Except Sundays and Legal Holidays OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1926 Single Copies 3 Cents Yearly Subscription $5.00 EIGHT PAGES -_ 'Premier Denies Report of "Wet" Policy ATTAGKS ELECTION METHODS OF THE LIBERAL FORCES A. J. Doucet Claims Quebec Was Misled--Did Not : Vote on Tariff SPEECH ON TARIFF South Huron Liberal Deals With Tariff From Man Angles With a fiery Ottawa, Jan. 21, Doucet, French- oration from A, J. Canadian Conservative from Kent, N.B., on Liberal election campaign methods in the Province of Quebec, a party speech from the 'Hon. "Bob" Rogers, a word from Prince Edward Island and Alberta, and a low-tarifi address from Ontario, Parliament today took another short step to- ward the division on the Meighen amendment to the Address, Mr. Doucet supplied the fireworks and, indeed, the sensation of the day when he repaid the Liberals in kind for their criticism of Conser- vative campaign tactics in Quebe~. Furnishing quotation and reference for most of his statements, he ac- cused the Quebee Liberal press and politicians of representing," by press and poster, that the election of Meighen meant a® war with Turkey, possibly a conflict with China, or at least armed strife with the Moham- medans. Claims Quebec Was Misled The whole purport of Mr, Douneet's utterances was to show that Quebec had not voted on tariff at all, but had been misled, as he alleged, by - the campaign of hatred and political and religious prejudice," and he declared the evil that had heen done in that connection would live in Canada for many a day But the tendency to fight over again the on bf oe ane' fast; pr 3 in, it ide ix) ery spea od de rai 18 A fons x ih was overshadowed from the (Continued on pi ge 5) 550,000 1055 IN FIRE AT LONDON Three Story Building Burned --Firemen ampered By Low Temperature (By Canadian Press) London, (nt., Jan. 22. early today| destroyed the storey brick| building occupied by the Canada Rug Company and the l.ondon Coat and Apron Supply Company. The low temperature ham- pered the firemen and their clothing and ladders were sheeted with ice At one time the Walper house was in danger and the guests were dressed and ready to leave. The loss to the Rug Company and the Apron supply Company may total $50,000 UNION MEN WARNED AGAINST A STRIKE Such Action Would Result Disastrously for Employees Themselves London, Jan. 22 --Delegates of the National Union of Railwaymen, despite the unanimous advice of J. H. Thomas and other leaders, have rejected the award of the national wages board. The award does not change the wages of existing work- ers, but provides lower scales for new entrants into the railway ser- vice. Since the award local branches of the union have been passing resolutions condemn- ing it, so yesterday's decision whs not altogether a surprise. Com- munists have been very busy in propaganda trying to raise feeling against the award and the delegates have been exasperated by the pro- posal of the mine owners that rail- way wages be reduced, Ag the award has been made by the final aathority on railway wages after prolonged negotiations, it is hardly likely that the companies will agree to new concessions, hut if they attempt to enforce the award the logieal result would be a rail- way strike. it is doubtful, however, whether the logical result would really hap- pen. Not one per cent. of the rail- way workers attend the branch meetings or take part in the elee- tion of delegates. It is usually only the radical minority that asserts i*- self in local aetivities, and a strike could only be effective if an over- whelming majority of railway worw ers were prepared to take extreme action. Mr. Thomas and other lead- ers. ave plainly. staied their views t a strike would be bound to end usly for the union. Fire three was published ais | Attorney General Nickle that the appeals were taken. Wr Fair Board May Ask For $2,000 Grant From City Must Practice [Economy Secretary C. P. Davis in Pre- | senting Report States That Fair Has Not Been Making Money Due to Enormous Expenditures Several Suggestions Made OFFICERS ARE ALL RE-ELECTED {nnis Grant Again Chosen President -- May Change Dates So as to Have Exhi- bition Farther Away From Toronto Fair Dates--1925 | Deficit Amounted to Sum of | $933.47 Taxi, Driver Is a rine Seven Days Seven days hard. labor in the county jail, was the sentence meted out to L, H. Wilson when » he pleaded guilty to a charge of driving an antomobile while in- toxicaed on January 1. DD, A, J. Swanson pleaded for Wiison, stating that in all his driving experience he had never had any trouble, and up to date had a good record, Taking this in- to consideration Magistrate Hind imposed the minimum penalty of seven days and ordered him to report to Chief Friend before driving again, HOLD MEETING RE SUBURBAN ROADS Commission and Board of Works Discuss Section North of City All the officers and practically all the directors of the South Ontario Agricnltural Society- were re-eleet od at the annual meeting held in the Town Hall yesterday afternoon. The Society closed its year with a de hit balance of $933.4 The of- ficials consider Society was the 'ortunate in not having a larger de fieit because of the many handicaps | ©f Works was held in the municipal experienced during the last exhibi- | buildings last night to discuss. ways tion, According to the audited fin- and means of putting the road im- ancial sfatement the receipts for mediately to the north of the last year were £12.010.00 and the | IO prope} Sonditige, ht was g expenditures $12,942.93. {The So.|cided fo have the eonnty enzince ciety carried over $174.83 from take the matter up with the county y " i i "hi } 1924 to 1925 council whieh meets in Whithy on | The fair Tuesday. The road will either be | S| gravelled or paved. County Engin- money and Secretary C. P. Davis | Phan: 'attende vol declared that the Society was fall- ing. D. J. Keens attended: the meet ing down through the Hod dl) expenditures, "He irged "the wtriet- est economy and suggested | A Oshawa give a larger grant, "We as a Fair Board should ao] to the City Council for a grant of | £2,000," Mr. Davis declared. | Among the items referred to | was the question of policing the | park. There were a large number who gained admittance to the park over the fences and he expressed | the opinion that a member of tha Oshawa Police Department would | lo more good than a half a dozen | special constables The police de- | partment could he given a sum o! money for their work, Mr. Davis stated | In pointing out the trouble ex-|¢05!S perienced last year, Mr. Davis stat- { orang : ed that one of the directors had in- | 08 intoxi formed him that he had found some | 1Dis time 'the f the special police officers asleep months in jail. under the trees, {pot heen paid. He also urged the reducing of the { | | | ) 7 So A joint meeting of the Roads Commission and the 8 has not beén making CTA ST prt Te HE HAD ENOUGH. he (J. B. Watson Fined $50 and | Costs Today--Paid $10 | | Fine Yesterday in in and | this of he tree! two has! appeared charge of fined £10 in court charge on the same fine was $50 or As yet the fine J. B. Watson, who court yesterday on a toxication and wis again on the sated was up sme i ber ; : limentany ket Arrested on a charge of vagrancy | « y i S| Nr . Sum he of complimentsny . iicke at the C.N.R. last night by Con-| ssued. | 4 stable J. R. Booth, James Pullen H 3 i 1 M G. B. pleaded guilty when he appeared in attention ) | court this morning Pullen claimed | parade, which, he said, many he had been in this country 10 years. | sidered one sof the features of having been brought here by exhibition. 4 1 2 Dr. Barnado Institution, Magistrate | We have not had 3 200 parade | ying remanded him for 8 days un-| for years, but if it is neglected it | 1 | | | i more stock con- tha | Mothersill urged that be given the live the . a til his record could be looked up. will soon fall away," he stated. I R. B. Smith, first vice-president, expressed regret' at the $400 grant from the City of Oshawa. If Osh- awa wants a Tair it must do more {Continued pn page 6) AVERTS TRAIN WRECK. Due to strict attention to duty and obeying. railway regulations on the. part of Engineer MeCullough of the C.P.R. way-freight which left Renfrew yesterday morning, what might have been a disastrous train wreck was narrowly averted, En- £Lineer McCulloch, while making a tour of examination about his en- gine before pulling out of Snov Road, where he had stopped by the merest chance to pick up some freight, discovered that one of the large driving wheels on the right side of the locomotive was cracked in two places and that the whole wheel was in a very dangerous con- dition. This information was im- mediately wired to Superintendent Maine of the Trenton Division, who despatched at once a wrecking train to the scene. Had the stop not been made at Snow Road, railwaymen say there would have been a bad wreck. PIDEMIC The district of Enterprise near Kingston is suffering with a general epidemic of the "flu." Dr. Horton reports that he is attending 97 cases and that more are being added every day. While ~ne epidemic is not as violent or fatal as it 'was when the country was first attack- ed during the war the patients are quite ill. C. PP. DAVIS Secretary of the South Ontario Ag- ricultural Society who was re- clected at the annual meeting yesterday. Brewers Cannot Maintain Liquor Export Warehouses Along Boundary or Lake Ports (By Canadian Press) Belleville, Jan. 22.--The right of brewers or distributors to maintain liquor export warehouses along the line of the international boundary or at lake ports has been denied by Judge George E. De- roche in a decision just handed down in the case of Harry Robin- son, charged under the O.T.A. The judge's verdict is a reversal of the Deseronto police magistrate's finding. "It was at the instance of Surburban | Board ! eity, | de- | | that INNIS GRANT Who at the Sonth Ontario ciety yesterday president, annual meeting of Agricultural was again elected | | | | | | Probe to Continue t Ten Weeks | Port Hearing Weekly With the decision to hold one Iy one hearing a week and that on Friday, there is every indi- catien that the investigation in- to the affairs of the Oshawa Board of Education will contin. ue for another ten weeks, Judge Tytler told The Retor- mer at the opening of the hes ing this afternoon that he expected the investigation to be completed by today. "I can- not devote more than one day a week herve" Judge Tytler state ed, There were i nattenda noon session, net 12 spectators during the after- PLAN TO UNSEAT UROSS Edmonton, Jan, 21.--A petition is being circulgted in the constituency for the unseating of C Liberal, and the election, con the grounds practices prevented a held Cross, ia new corrupt r election being Philadelphia, Pa., announce: (Bv Canadian Press) Scranton, Pa., Jan. 22.--President John L. Lewis of the United | | coal strike. negotiation. ALLEGED FINNISH * * Says No Authority For Report From London, Ont. Hon. G. H. Ferguson Denies Any Knowledge That on May 1 Hotels and Clubs Are to Sell Strong Beer' and Wines-- Will Make Announcement When There's Any to Be Made confidence a policy of the pro- vincial Government om Liquor legislation, The despatch declar- ed that the Government without taking any referendum would on May 1 permit hotels to sell strong beer and wine, would al- low clubs to sell bottle owders and would permit the sale of hard liquor in packages from = | 1 (By Canadian Press) Toronto, Jan, 22 not heard anything about it, There is no authority for any one to make such a statement as to our policy, When the Gov- ernment is prepared to make statement IT will announce it myself to the public so that there will be no mistake about | have oy the | S0-- Athab 4 | holding | | MINE WORKERS' PRESIDENT ACCEPTS SCRANTON TIMES' PLAN AS BASIS FOR CONFERENCE TO END STRIKE (Bv Canaaian Press) Jan, 22.--The d that the Scranton Times' plan to end the coal strike "did | not meet any requirements of the sityation' | | Mine Workers, today accepted as a basis for negotiation the plan | advanced by the Scranton Times for a settlement of the authracite | W. W. Inglis, chairman of the Anthracite Operators' | negotiating committee, had already favored the plan as a basis for | © Mr. Lewis said he was willing to join Mr. Inglis in an- | other meeting in an attempt to agree on a settlement that will send | 158,000 mine wrokers back to work. | | SPIES ARRESTED One Mortally Wounded Attempting to Escape from Political Police (By Canadian Press) Leningrad, Jan. 22.---Kleven al- leged Finnish spies have been ar- rested by the Russian State Political Police. One of their number. while attempting to escape was mortally wounded. START FLIGHT 10 BUENOS AIRED Three Spanish Aviators to Make First Stop at Canary Islands (By Canadian Press Madrid, Jan. 22. -- Commander Francos, Seaplane NE; this after- noon arrived at Los Palamas, Canary Islands, first scheduled stop on flight from Palos, Spain, to Buenos Aires. The Spanish aviator's ma- chine completed the flight from Palos, Spain, a distance of about 817 miles, in eight hours. (By Casadian Prest) Palos, Spain, Jan, 22.--Three Spanish aviators started this morn- ing in the seaplane Neplus Ultra on the first leg of the flight for Buenos Aires and possibly. New York. The first stop will be Las Palmas, Can- ary Islandg. The aviators are eom- mander amon Franco, Captain i Ruiz De Alva and Ensign Duran. | Madras and Bombay, | ted «rleg. A lady residing on | this morning to, 500. Government dispensaries, all un- der a local option principle, . H. Price, Provincial ". ¥. Nickle, yv General, who are men- tioned in the despateh today de- nied all knowledge of the mat- ter, it." This was the statement made by Premier Ferguson today when he was geustioned regarag- ing the despateh from London, Ont,, published here stating that at a meeting of London Hotel proprietors, a representative of the Government submitted in ~ | Evidence Re Material In Collegiate Walls at School Enquiry Today *Edward Danks. Foreman, | Tells Commission Material | is Better Than Called For! in Some Cases -- Any Changes Were Authorized By Inspector Arnold | 'SAYS ARNOLD WAS ALWAYS CAPABLE |W. J. Holland 'Who Erected Grandstand at Park Says He | Never Saw Arnold Take a Drink--Might Be Able to Tell If a Man Had Done So | --Holland is Scored By the | Judge | Fractures Leg In Fall on Sidewalk PW. letter carvier, sustained a Court street, broke when side Belt Brow n, en leg yesterday morning he slipped and fell on the walk on Lloyd strect. Dr. reduced the tract Mr. Brown was removed to his home where he is resting comfort. ably. He was making his first delivery for the day when the aceldent occ ed. anthracite operators today | vestigation into the affairs of | Education which resumed | this morning attracted only a small | audience and the majority of the spec- | tators were witnesses Nothing of a sensational nature was produced, the offered being similar to that previous hearings Foreman Testifies Edward Danks, a foreman brick- layer, the first witness told of the! construction of the walls at the Col- | legiate. Asked by Mr. Conant about { the metal ties, the witness stated! [they were put on every five courses | of brick. Thep lans called for nine inches of brick nine and a half of | air space and and a half of glazed brick in the south wall of the gymnasium below the running track. The wall was built with fou» | and a half inches of face brick, eight inches of tile, two and a half inches of air space and four and a half inches of glazed brick. 3a construction oft he wall was better | than called for on the plans the wit- ness said. On the north side, the wall was made up of four and a hair} inches of brick, aight inches of tile, | two and a half inches of air space and four and a half inches of brick. This gave 17 inches of material. The plans called for 18 inches of ma-~ terial. The walls constructed cost more than what was called for in the plans. There was additional ma. | terial usesl and more laboy in their (Continued 'on page 3) ! The in | the Board oi | evidence maven at Discount Reports Willingdon to Be Next Gov.-General four (By Canadian Press) Ottawa, Jan. 22.---Rumors that Lord Willingdon, former governor of ! wil be appoin- the next Governor-General of Canada are discounted here. Lord Willingdon will arrive in Ottawa for a brief visit vo His Excellency, the Governor General on the 27 of this month. He is on his way to China on a mission for the British foreign office. JOSEPH CRAIG BROKE LEG IN FALL {> A number of bad accidents have ogeurred this week owing to the ice on the sidewalks. One of the most unfortunate was that of Mr. Joseph Craig, of the Eastern Dairy School, who slipped, just outside his home on Brock street, and broke his University avenue, fell on Princess street this week and broke an arm, while sev- eral minor accidents occur daily. SERIOUSLY HURT IN BRAWL Thomas Parks of Arden is in the hospital in Kingston in a critical condition *as the result of injuries received in a brawl with another re- sident of that place last week. Parks was brought to the hospital suffer- ing from scalp wounds and a frac ture of the skull, which is pressing on the brain, and an operation will be performed. WEATHER Northwest winds, fair and de- cidedly cold today and on Sat- urday. DISCOVER PLOT AGAINST LIVES OF KING ALEXANDER AND CABINET , 500 COMMUNISTS UNDER ARREST (By Canadian Press) Belgrade, Jan. 22.--Discovery of a plot against lives of King Alexander and cabinet ministers is believed to be behind the sud- den decision of Premier Pachitch to return from the Riviera where he went on January 10 for an announced lengthy stay for his heaith. The police are continuing their widespread raid upon the homes of known communists and the number of persons arrested had swelled 1 -~ - - ~ land Joe Stringer, | trict, | swept over | Union CHARRED REMAINS BELIEVED THOSE OF MISSING MEN Party Searching for Game Inspector and Guide Make Discovery SHACK BURNED . Sergeant Billings and Guide Thought to Have Died from Burning (By Canadian Press) Barry's Bay, Ont., Jan, 22.-~ " ; | Search parties which have been lout for the past week or more in the hope of locating Sergeant John Billings, O.G.M., game and fisheries inspector at Barry's Bay, guide, who have been missing since January 8, came upon the charred re- mains of two men in a shack | which had been burned to the ! ground about ten miles from Whitney, in the Sand Lake dis- late yesterday afternoon, and it is presumed. that Sergeant Billings and his guide have met death by bu burning i in the shack. CARDINAL MERCIER NEAR DEATH'S DOOR Doctors Prohibit Visitors from Seeing Him--Question of Days (By Canadian Press) Brussels, Jan, 22.--Cardipal Mer- {cier's death is generally admitted to be only question of days. His feeble- ness caused doctors -to prohibit visits to him today. | QUEEN VICTORIA DEAD 25 YEARS Twenty-five years ago today there the emprie a surge of grief as the news spread that the queen had passed away. For over sixty vears Vietoria had swayed the hearts of al Ithose who lived 'in the far-flung regions under the Jack. Yet amidst all the mourning there was a note of thanksgiving for the services that the "Good Queen" had rendered in the cause of humanity {and in the cultivation of that affec- | tions for the sovereign which is the | strongest chain binding together tha | many ! pire. and varied parts of the em- SHOOTS WOMAN AND THEN HIM- SELF Jan. 21.--Jean Baptiate Paquette, 54 said to be from Detrdit, and Mrs. Emile Groulx, 36, of Hull, | lie in the Ottawa General Hospital, Water street, suffering from bullet wounds inflicted by Paquette. The reason is said to be unrequited af- fection. The shooting occurred on Hanna street, [Eastview] shortly before three o'clock this afternoon. Ottawa, SCREEN STAR INJURIES Los Angeles, Jan. 22.--Bebe Dan- iels, dashing movie star, who fell from a truck on which she was "do- ing a stunt" in the course of film- ing a screen comedy yesterday, was, reported improving at the hospital "where she was taken. Physicians, who at first said they beiteved she had sustained concussion of the brain, pronounced the injuries today 28 not serious ' WE SEE BY THE REFORMER wm CLASSIF IED ADS Tht apartments are for rent That-- A girl is wanted to lean sewing, REFORMER CLASSIFIED ADS PHONE 35 Coming Events RATES 2, Cents per word each inser: tion, Minimum charge for each' i advertisement, 25c each insertion. i GRAND CONCERT BY TORONTO String Quartette, assisted by Mrs. Cragie, violinist, under anspiss Oshawa Music Study Club. Si + coe street Methodist Chu). Tuasday, February 16. 1:22