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or The Oshawa Daily Keformer -- , WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE OSHAWA TELEGRAM VOL. 55--NO. 228 Publishes Oshawa, Every OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1926 Yearly Subscription $5.00 Single Copies, 3 Cents Second Section--Pages 9-12 May Abandon Charges | Against Mrs M'Pherson According to Announcement of District Attorney Asa Keys on Eve of Grand Jury Investibation--Due to Col- lapse of Testimony of the Principal Witness, Mus. Wiseman . Los Angeles, Dec. 29.--Dismissal of conspiracy charges against Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist; her former radio engineer, Kenneth G. Ormiston; her mother, Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, and Mrs. Lorraine Wise- man-8ielaff is imminent, District Attorney Asa Keyes announced to- night, on the eve of a new Grand Jury iinvestigaiton into the evan- gelist's mysterious disappearance. Keyes declared the charges of conspiring to obstruct justice and suborn perjury probably would be dropped, due "to the collapse of the testimony of the principal witness, Mrs. Wiseman." This witness, who had confessed perpetrating a "Miss X" hoax in the case, the District Attorney tonight characterized as a she had told a "different story every "turncoat" and a "perjurer," saying day." "The McPherson case' is now in such a muddled state that a convic- tion is almost impossible and the charges probably will be with- drawn," Keyes said. He was unable to say when such a move would be taken. Roland Rich Woolley, for- merly the personal attorney of Mf. McPherson, and Mrs. Wiseman will be taken before the County Grand Jury tomorrow, the prosecutor said. SOUTHERN FLOODS AT RECORD HEIGHT May Reach Peak on Friday-- Motorists Drowned-- Many Made Homeless Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 29.--The Cumberland River, sweeping through Nashville in the most devastating flood in the city's history, spread over a wide territory today, forcing additional hundreds to join the gev- eral thousand homeless who had fled from the surging waters. The river, rising one-tenth of a foot an hour, had reached 55 feet late today, within three-tenths of a foot of the record stage of 55.3 feet in 1882. A stage of between 55.5 and 56 feet has been forecast by the Weather Bureau here, and is ex- pected to be reached Friday or Sat- urday. Three hundred moved families ' were from their homes today. 230 Blocks Affected The Police Department estimated 250 city blocks were affected by the backwaters. Between 4,000 and b,- 000 persons have been driven from their homes, principally in North and East Nashville. Simultaneously with the removal of the flood sufferers from their Wwater-sogged homes, relief agencies began functioning. The County Charities Committee, swamped with applications for food and clothing, today appealed for $10,000 addition- al relief funds. Train service on the Tennessee Central Railway out of Bere was vir- tually at a standstill, No estimate has been made of the probable property damage in the city a none can be closely approxi- mated 'until the waters have reced- ed. -- Improvement in the Southern flood situation was noted tonight after today's respite from rain, ex- cept in Tennessee and certain local- ities in Mississippi. Conditions More Acute Conditions in the Chattanooga vicinity along the Tennessee became more acute tonight as inhabitants awaited the flood crest. In Western Kentucky also the rise in the Cumberland has brought flood waters down upon Eddyville and Kuttawa. Low lands between Monticello and Burnside in South- ern Kentucky were 20 feet under water. Overflow waters of the Tombig- bee River in Mississippi, near Co- lumbus and Aberdeen, were with- drawing tonight..A Columbus report said that damage to highways, rail- roads and other properties would total hundreds of thousands of dol- lars, Three unidentified persons were drowned near Bentonia, Mass., to- day when their car overturned in flood waters. GREAT BRITAIN'S FIRST AIR SALESMAN . -- London, Dec. 29.--Great Brit- ain's first flying traveling salesman has started his rounds from Brook- lands in an airplane. He will visit customers in the principal towns of England and Ireland. The pioneer air "drummer" is J. P. Phillips of London. He is pilot- ing the plane himself, having ob- tained a license several months ago. ALDERMAN A. S. McLEESE Who is seeking re-election in Ward 4 BRAZILIAN TROOPS FIGHTING REBELS Separatist Movement Threat- ens in Rio Grande do Sul Provinces Beunos Aires, Dec. 30.--Continued guerilla warfare in four Brazilian prev- inces, resultingg in the recent battles between Federal troops and rebels iu Rie Grande do Sul, Province, may lead to a separatist movement. Since its annexation to Brazil from Uruguay, Brazil's neighbor to the south Rio Grande do Sul has been claimed by many discontented leaders as an inde- pendent province. It has been practi- cally in a state of seige for the last tcur years and the Government has been forced 'to suspend all constitu- tional guarantees. Recently the uprisings, usually in- volving a few hundred men at a time, have been most serious in Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Caterina and Parana, the three southern provinces and in isolated sections of Mattogrosso, large central western province. In each case, as in the recent out- breaks in the three southern provinces, small contingents of revolutionists Lave fought under frequently unimpor- tant leaders. Brief Accounts Dispatch from Montivedeo, to the newspapers of Buenos Aires have con- tained only brief accounts of this civil warfare and no figures regarding the number killed are available. The regions chosen by the rebels for their battles usually have been iso- lated sections. Manifesotes issued from" the rebel camps indicate their desire that the present Brazilian Government be dis- missed and the constitution reform- ed. A secret vote in choosing reform- representatives is one of their demands, and they claim that this is the only means by which "legitimate represen- tations" may be possible. It is estimated that in the ten years of guerilla fighting 2,000 Brazilian army officers have been tried and many of them have been demoted. Revolutionists Free Buenos Aires, Dec. 30--Brazilian troops are in pursuit of revolutionists who have fled to Laureles, across the southern border into Uruguay, accord- ingto a message to the newspaper La Razon from its Montevideo correspon- dent. The entire garrison at Santa Anno with 300 men, has been emptied in crder to furnish a pursuit army. The Government troops have left for Cax- oeiras and expect to pursue the revolu- tionists who are under the leadership of Julio Bareios. The revolutionist force consists of 150 men. Reports from insurrectionist head- quarters say that the Government troops have suffered severe losses in recent battles. SEEK PYROMANIAC IN CITY OF OTTAWA City is Scoured for Firebug Believed Responsible for 'Series of Blazes Ottawa, Dec. 29..--Following a fire which caused $55,000 damage to the Keyes Hardware Supply Com- pany premises here last night, the entire Ottawa Police Force is scour- ing the city for a pyromaniac who, in the opinion of the city's Fire Chief, has been responsible for four blazes which have threatened the business section this month. The conflagrations, which have caused a total loss of close to $150,000, have all occurred on Parks and Wel- lington Streets, two of the Capital's main thoroughfares. Three of the fires were within a stone.throw of each other. Fire Chief . Robert Burnett, in pointing out today that the four fires each started from some myster- ious cause, asserted that this fact could only lead to the conclusion that a firebug was at large. 60 KILLED, 200 ARE WOUNDED I BRAZILIAN BATTLE Rebels and Federal Troops Are in Clash at Jefuery MARTIAL LAW Buenos Aires, Dec. 30--Dispatches from the Brazilian border to the news- paper La Prensa said 60 persons were killed and 200 wounded in a battle be- tween Brazilian rebels and = federal troops at Jefuery in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, in southern Brazil. The federals were reported to have numbered about 2000 and the rebels claimed about 3,000, some of the latter being armed with machine guns. Al- though the federals fell back before the rebels it was possible that the two groups soon would engage in a decisive battle. Martial Law Rio Grande do Sul has been under an approximation of martial law for four years. It is one of ofur rebellious areas in Brazil, the others being the States of Sante Catalina, Parana and Matto Grosso. Guerilla warfare goes on in these States almost all the time with small groups of rebels operating under independent leaders against whom the Government in recent years has increased its police force by 300 per cent. The region is heavily wooded and without the ordinary means of com- munication. Because of the indepen- dent character of the rebel groups and the difficulties of the terrain, decisive encounters for suppression of the re- bellion are difficult for the federal commanders to achieve. Rebel manifestoes, issued from time to time indicate that in general the rebellious ones desire dismissal of the present Government; reform of the constitution, including the adoption of the secret ballot; and 'legitimately elected' national representation. Since 1916 about 2,000 Brazilian army officers have been demoted or tried by court martial for alleged connection with rebellious plots. FIND NEW CLUE IN SHOOTING CASE Seek Driver Believed to Have Aided Escape of Consta- ble's Assailants MISS MARY R, ALLISON National Girls' Work Secretary and one of the outstanding leaders in girls' work on the continent. Miss Allison will conduct the study group of Leaders of Girls' Classes at the Tra'ning School next week. Oshawa leaders have a rare op- portunity and every teacher of a teen age girls' class should attend these classes. FIGHT IS PLANNED ACROSS ATLANTIC) Paris, Dec. 29.--The French Com- mercial Air Service, which is sald to be organizing a trans-Atlantic flight for next Spring, Paris 'to New York, is bitterly criticized for alleg- ed neglect in preparation, The Paris press, led by the Soir, while an- nouncing that Major Weiss has been selected to make the attempt, accuses the administration of iner- tia in a matter considered of great importance. Major Weiss contemplates mak- ing a 25,000-mile circuit, reaching New York via Dakar, Senegal and Buenos Aires, and returning from New York to Paris directly across the Atlantic, French experts differ as to whe- ther there is already in existence a plane capable of accomplishing the flight proposed by Weiss.. FOUR COMMUNISTS SHOT IN LITHUANIA Kovna, Lithuania, Dec. 29.--Four Communists were executed by a firing squad a few minutes after a court mar- tial verdict had held them to be guilty of swearing allegiance to the Commun- ist party. SEES NEW YORK AS CAVE MEN'S CITY London, Dec. 29.--Fears that the city .of New York may become a city of cave-dwellers were voiced by Sir Alfred Mond, British indus- trialist, in giving the American Chamber of Commerce the impres- s'ons he gathered on his recent visit to the United States. New sky- scrapers in New York with their terraced roofs, he declared, 'seem like the dwellings of the ancient Aztecs. I hope the day will never come when my friends in Wall Street wear bearskins for clothes, carry stone-age weapons and drag the'r stenographers by the hair through the narrow thoroughfares." A CORRECTION In the report of the death of Mr. Jas. W. Provan which appeared in The Reformer Tuesday, an unfor- tunate error was made in stating that the deceased was at one time a manufacturer of hay forks with his plant on College Hill. The fact is, Mr. Jas. W. Provan, assisted by his brother, Mr. John W. Prova: was successful in the invention and manufacture of the modern type of hay fork, carrier and slings, and carried oa the manufacture of this 2 paratus for many years in Oshawa. The industry began first in a small way in the foundry of William Hare on King street west over the bridge, «he location now of the Adanac Gar- age and Mr. O. Durrant, machine shop. Later when the business grew is was removed to part of the premi- ses of the Bailey, Woon and company on Prince street and later to the premises now. occupied by F. W. Watkinson and the Johns Piano Store, and which was then used by William Bambridge as a blacksmith shop and carriage shop. In 1903 the business was sold out to Beattie Bros., of Bergus, Ont., who are still manufacturing a line bearing the name "Provan." FARMER LOSES NEW YEAR'S FOWL SUPPLY Montreal, * Dec. 30.--Henri Boisvert, farmer of St. Henri de Mascouche, lost his New Year's supply of fowl Sunday night when he parked his waggon at the Maisonneuve Market and went to a restaurant for a meal. When the far- mer next saw the wagon, the load was lighter by the weight of 34 vanished hens, for which the farmer had been offered $50. O fhis flock of 42 hens, he had only eigth left to dispose of as they had not been included in the $50 sale. FIND NEW -- 3 Montreal, Dec. 30.--Constable Hector Connelly, shot down during a gun bat- tle with two burglars while attempting to prevent their escape from the home of J. W. Hazlett, 336 Addington ave- nue, which they were looting late Christmas Eve, is making good pro- gress at the Western Hospital. New evidence came to light when a Notre Dame de Grace citizen informed the police that, following the shooting, he had seen two men enter a taxicab just near Sherbrooke and Addington avenue and drive rapidly away. The taxi driver is believed to have been lo- cated since and is due for interroga- tion at headquarters. The escape by taxi bears out the surmise by the injured constable that two men were in the house when he arrived with constable Dansercau. Connelly, according to information, was surprised as he waited in the yard for the coming of one of the pair. His attention was directed towards a rear right side window, when he was shot down from the left while totally un- aware of the presence of the second man. Constable Dansereau was at head- Guartess this morning reporting the occurrence to Chief Belanger. Dan- sereau remained at his post because Connelly told him to stay and watch the front entrance. TEN CONVICTS OF 1S. PRISON ESCAPE One Man Captured -- Other Nine Still Pursued by Guards Montgomery, Ala, Dec.. 30.--Ten convicts escaped from the state peni- tentiary at Speigner after fleeing a fusilade of bullets. One of the men was captured with- in 20 minutes but guards aided by dogs were still in pursuit of the other nine. The prisoners cut through the strands of barbed wire runway and eluded the guards in the dark. At the time the men escaped they were returning to the prison yard from a cotton mill operated in conjunction with the prison! Their may led through a long roofed and wire enclosed run- way, lighted at intervals by electric bulbs. One of these was out and the pris- oners smashed another before making their break for liberty. The guards following them up the passage im- mediately opened fire but could not determine whether any of the shots took effect. Travel broadeas one mentally and flattens him financially. 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Both were drowned. 7 mediately puts SAYS RUM RUNNERS TURN T0 CANADA Commander of U.S. Coasts guard Infers Dry Prov- inces Supplied Washington, Dee. 30.--Liquor smugglers who attempted to land cargoes at New York when *"Rum Row' was a fixture off the New Eng- land coast have turned their activi- ties to Canadian dry provinces, acs cording to Admiral F. C. Billard, commandant of the coast guard. Rum Row as a permanent institution is ended as far as the United States is concerned, he said, "When a liquor boat is sighted off America now a patrol boat ime it under '"surveil- lance," Billard said. "The boat cane not land its contraband in the Unit. ed States so it takes it to Canada. Of course the service is not infal« lible. A load of rum seeps by the blockade now and then but there will never be another rum row as long as the coast guard is functioning." Billard said 25 destroyers now patrol the most thickly infested area of the North Atlantic. 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