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in a Growing City The Oshawa Daily Reformer Chie Oshawa Daily Times "All the News While It Is News" -- : VoL. I- 1--NO. 69 PR Si oa we a : OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1927 10 Cents a Week; 2 Cents a Copy. v Mb Second Section--Pages 9-12 * Both Planes In Spokane N on-Stop Flight, Forc JUDGE ASKS FOR DAILY CHECK ON BOOTLEG PLACES Latest Development in Wind. sor Cleanup is Officer's Suspension KEEP CLOSER CHECK Witnesses Unreliable, Making it Difficult to Register Convictions Windsor, Sept, 22.--A day-to-day tab on suspected blind pigs and gambling dens was demanded this afternoon by County Judge J. J. Coughlin at a meetnig of the Wind- sor Police Commission, This and the suspension of Constable James Silver for alleged irregularities are the latest developments in the cru- sade against vice at the horder, "Chief Constable Daniel Thomp- son should institute some means to check up on laxity among the con- stables, and in all cases where there is strong suspicion that liquor has been kept for sale the more serious charge of selling, rather than the minor charge of 'having,' should he pressed" Judge Coughlin said, in de- manding drastic action to end blind- pigging and gambling, 'Step on the gas,' sald Mayor Cecil BE, Jackson, addressing the Chief, and put as much punch into the drive to clean up 'blind pigs' (Contitjved on page 11) DIAMONDS VALUED AT $30,000 STOLEN Bandits Snatch Suitcase from TT wns ~Miontrest Mari 'on Main Street Montreal, Bept. 22.--For the sec- ond time in two days a hold-up oc- curred in the east end of the city. when, tonight, two bandits attacked H. Belhomme, diamond cutter and polisher, on St. Catherine street, one of the city's main thoroughfares, and enatched from him a suitcase containing $50,000 in loose stones. After securing the suitcase, the bandits made their escape in an au- tomobile, which was later found by the police, One of the men fired a shot at several citizens who attempt- ed to give chase. Yesterday a Bank of Montreal branch was held up by three men and robbed of $2,500. Belhomme told the police that he had been giving a demonstration of diamond cutting and polishing a. the store of Scott & Bousquet Bro- thers, Limited, on St. Catherine street east, in conpection with an exhibition of diamonds. He was ir the habit of placing the diamonds in the store vault, but this evening he had decided to take the stones home, as he had to meet a custo- mer. He stepped out of the store, car- rying the diamonds in a small suit- case, and walked west on St. Cath- erine street to the cormer of St. Timothy street, on which he had parked his car. He had just turned the corner when two men came up to him. One of them seized him around the neck and half stramgled him. while the second wrestled the suitcase from his hands. The ban- dits then jumped into their auto- mobile and disappeared. Belhomme £aid that the diamonds were his own property. Rd KJ Bowmanville Ivers Kelly, Representative--Phones: Office 255; Res, 300 James Brown a and Oswald] Branch Charged With At. tempted Highway Robbery Against Samuel Jacks, of Darlington (By Staff Reporter Bowmanville, Sept. 23.--Samuel Jacks, well known farmer, was sub- poenaed yesterday by Chief Richard Jarvis, to appear as witness against fames Brown and Oswald Branch, vlo are at present held in Cobourg jail on a charge of attempted high- vuy robbery with violence against Mr. Jacks, on Saturday. September, 17, near Hampton. W. H. Cookman, Whitby and Thomas Mitchell Osh- "ing 'the road, awa provincial constables, who ar- rested the accused men on Sunday. have also been notified to he pres- ent at the leaving here on Tuesday morning. September 27, before County Magistrate W. H. Floyd. Both of the accused men are known to the police, Branch hav- ing served several terms in the On- tario Reformatory for perjury and theft; and Brown having been re- leased on suspended sentence last year, for shooting a pair of horses belonging to James Cameron, Hamp- ton. Sam Jacks, the man against whom. the robbery attempt failed lines south west of Hampton, in Darling- ton County. Describing to The Times today the manner in which the robbery was tried, Jacks said that he saw neither the men nor the five foot rail fence which was block- men fired a revolver, three times in quick succession, He declared he had been busy talking to the herse who was acting skittishly, shying away from the side of the road. Then one of, the men, whom Jacks alleges was Brown, grabbed the horse by the head, while the other man tried to come closer to him. Mr. Jacks kept the second man, whom Branch in his confession ad- mits to be himself, away from the wagon by alternately hitting with his buggy whip in that diree- tion, and then the horse. Although the animal began sv rear when he whipped, Jacks kept it up and the horse turped around in the marrow road, a ditch on each side, with a man still holding onto his head. Swinging off his assail- apt, who had detached the reins from the bit, the horse ran down the road, taking the buggy around a corper three hundred yards away, on two wheels, with Mr. Jacks lean- ing over on one side to prevent it tipping over. Galloping along at a breakneck pace, the horse turned north off the third concession road. toward Hamp- ton, where he wzs stopped, just south of the bridge, by Wilfred 3male, a seventeen year old lad who ran out in the road to impede the horse's progress. Mr. Jacks has high praise for the pluck and clear 2rit which the boy showed. Mr. Jacks lives at Lot 22, Con- :ession 3, Darlington, and although he lives in an up-to-date house, he has a relic of the past, an old log ~abin. on his farm. This cabin, which Mr. Jacks uses for a hog pen, was lived in up to forty five years go, by Mrs. Fanson, grandmother of Mrs. Helen Brown, who was kill- >d on August 25 in front of the Jubilee Pavilion Popularity Contest Standi 1. 2. 3. 4, FLORENCE HU F. MURPHY DOROTHY REID T. OSBORNE T 19230 18460 18330 3700 Come and Vote and Make Your Favorite a Winner Last Car Leaves Lake at 12.05 ALLEGED HOLD-UP MEN APPEAR SEPTEMBER 27 "House That Jack Built." The ca- bin used to stand on 50 acres Mr. Jacks owns on the third concession, but he moved it several years ago. A -- -- EIGHT WITNESSES WILL BE CALLED Inquest to Be Held Tonight Into Death of Mrs. W. H. Speight (By Staff Reporter) Bowmanville, Sept. 23.--Richard Jarvis, Chief of Police, has sub- poenaed eight witnesses to the in- | quest which is being held tonight hefore Dr. Tilley, Coroner, into the death of Mrs. William H. Speight, 763 Markham street, Toronto, who was killed on the Kingston High- way, three hundred yards east of the Cream of Barley Camp, on Sun- day, Sept. 18, William . H. Speight, ,husband of the dead woman, and his son, Ernest who was driving the car en- route to Rice Lake at the time of the accident. have heen summoned as well as two occupants of the othar car, Willard Nicholson and Andrew Bork, both of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. Dr. B. J. Hazelwood, who attend- ed the dead woman, and Highway Traffic Officer Gordon Hallick of Port Hope, have heen notified. Two eyewitnesses, William Bates, and Joseph Hines, will be called upon to give evidence. Bates, who was walking toward Bowmanville at the time of the accident, works on the farm of Harry Argue, near the Bow- manville Cemetery. Joseph Hines who is editor of the Durham News- Review, was in charge of the oil station near the camp when the fat- ality occurred, FOUR ARE FINED FOR DRIVING MOTOR CARS WITHOUT LIGHTS (By Staff Reporter) Bowmanville, Sept. 23.--Four per- sons were fined in police court to- day before Magistrate W. F. Ward, for driving, or allowing someone to drive, a car through Bowmanville on September 10 without sufficient lights. Those paying four dollars and costs, amounting to $10.00 were Dr. Ferguson, Enniskillen; L. W. Fosher, Richmond street, Oshawa, and Frank Rundle, Bowmanville. Two others, Mrs. W. Jenkins, Windsor, and Clinton Stevens, Scarboro, charged with the same offence, were adjourned for one week. SEVERAL NEW CASES , INFANTILE PARALYSIS Edmonton, Sept. 22.--Seven fresh outbreaks of infantile paralysis at rural points and one in Edmonton were reported today, according to ritv and provincial health authori- ties. ! Three of the outside cases were just north of Edmonton, according to the Provincial Health Depart- ment. Anther one was reported at Ponoka, one south of Edmonton. one near Bashaw and one in the Unity area. No deaths were reported today. St James, Man., Sept. 22.--A case of infantile paralysis has been re- ceived at the local hospital, a boy 5 years of age being a victim of the dread disease. Health officials deprecate in the strongest manner any official emphasis being placed upon this case or any nervousness being felt in regard to the situation. "We have been having cases of in- fantile paralysis off and on for years," one health official stated. TO CONTINUE EXPERIMENTS IN DEHYDRATING APPLERS Grimsby, Sept. 22.--C. 8. McGil- livray, Chief of the Dehydrating Di- vision of the Dominion Department of Agriculture, has been in Grimsby for two days making arrangements for the reopening of the dehydration plant. Arrangements have been made to conduct an extensive experiment on apples, and a large quantity of this fruit is now' being purchased in the district. The plant will open on Oct. 3 MILK MAY BE DEARER Brantford, Sept. 22.--Brant County Milk Producers' Association, after comsiderable discussion, has decided that the milk producers supplying the Brantford market will take steps forthwith to obtain a JMigher price for the milk, KIDNAPPED BOY 13 BROUGHT BACK Detroit Police Make Two Arrests in Connection With Case Detroit, Mich., Sept. 23.--Frank- ie Jergovich, spirited away from his home Monday night by kidnappers who demanded $25,000 ransom from the child's father, a wealthy real estate dealer and saloon pro- prietor, was found. He was let out of an automobile near his home by the captors. The child had not been harmed. The child could throw little light on the case. He told of having been ipproached by two men in an au- tomobile who offered him candy and them carried him away in the ma chine He sald he was taken to a honie where there was a woman. He could give hut a sketchy de: ser!ption of the trio. Police were of the opinion that the kidnappers If came frightened when thev read of the elaborate search being conducted by authori- ties. Arrests Made | After investigation of an anony- mous telephone call to police head- quarters on Monday night. detectives arrested John Castillion and Fred Rugrerillo, for questioning in con- nect'on with the kidnapping of "rank, Jr., three-year-old son of "rank Jergovich. wealthy saloon op- erator and real estate holder. Later two detectives carried the investigation to Flint, after asking police and the county sheriff there to attempt to check the moVements of a suspect who left for that city Monday night. The hoy was kidnapped Monday night while playing on the sidewalk near his home with two neighbor hoys and their. sister. Later the hoy's parents received telephone ~alls from the kidnappers demanding $25,000 ransom, but givipg no in- structions how or where "the pay- ment was to be made CHICAGO SHIVERS ° FOLLOWING FROST Opposite of f High Tempera- tures a Week Ago Re- corded in U.S.A. Chicago, Sept. 23.--The middle west which sweltered a week ago un- der record September temperatures shivered in overcoats Wednesday af- ter a night of frost and blankets. Snow flurries were unofficially reported in Ohio and light frosts spread over much of the corn belt. The temperature dropped to 41 in Chicago in the early morning. CAROL CONTESTS COURT'S DECREE Vienna, Sept. 23.--Bucharest dis- patches say the official Gazette there announces that former Prince Carol is contesting the decree of the Chan- cery Court under which the estate of the late King Ferdinand is being divided. The court is declared to have as- sented to the appointment of a trustee in behalf of Caro) and to have agreed to take his suit under consideration. BODY OF BADEAU FOUND AT SAULT Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., Sept. 23.-- The body of Hector Badeou, 45, son of Napoleon Badeau, of Sorel, Que- bec, who was drowned on Sanday last in the river here, was recovered Tuesday. Badeau was a cook on the tug Charles Halliday, and it is believed he fell into the river while attempt- ing to get aboard the 'boat in the dark, WINDSOR LIQUOR SHIPMENTS DESCRIBED IN COURT CASE Montreal, Sept. 22.--How large quantities of liquor were bought here for shipment to Windsor was told to the jury today in the Assizes by Gaston Thibodeau, held on a charge of theft from Jacob Basuvitz. According to the evidence, the accused was employed by Basuvitz to make the round of a number of Government liguor shops in an auto- mobile, aided by three others, to collect, bottle by bottle, in accord- ance wih the law, sufficient lquors of various kinds to make shipment to Windsor, Basuvitz, on the stand, declared that he was employed by the Dominion Export Company and formerly by the Mexican Export Company of Windsor, which firms advanced him money to buy the goods, which he in turn passed om to Thibodeau and other similarly PLANE "Duke" Schiller is Forced wl Land in Montana While Stinson's Detroit Machine Breaks Rocker Arm Felts Field, "Snaknse. Wash, Sept. 22-----Failure tonight met the efforts of Eddie Stinson of Detroit, and C. A. ("Duke") Schiller of Windsor in their projected non.stop continental air derby York to Spokane. Stinson was forced down at Mis- from New plane by Fred Koehler, his machan- ic who said it wonld ha dangerous. Stinson finished the flight in the plane of R. A. Dake of Pittshurg and landed early tonight at the air- port, Forced to Land, Billings, Mont.. Sept, 22-C. A, ("Duke") Schiller of Windsor, Ont, hrousht his Roval Windsor aero- plane down on the Billinzs landing fleld late th's afternoon. when a low gas supply prevented him from fin- ishing his New York to Spokane non-stop flight, Ions Consciousness Roosevelt Field, N.Y., Sept, Steve Lacey of Lomax, Ills. return- ed a few minutes after his second take-off for Sopkane tndav and was unconscious from gasoline fumes when his plane wa#® reached on the field. 22. 22. The plane landed at 215 p. m. Fastern standard time, Lacev was lifted from the cockpit. After a few minutes he was revived and taken from the fie'd hy automnbhile, L. A Yancey, Lacey's co-pilot, was not affected hy the gasoline fumes. He explained that they had got over New York City when mo- tor trouble developed. They debid- ed to return to the field. .in order to land with less danger it was de- cided to dump the gasoline, The | jump valves were opened and the | gasoline wae allowed to pour out over New York City, It was at this time that Lacey be. trans- | soula, Mont, by a broken rocker arm and a stuck valve. He was persuaded from continuing in the | WINDSOR MACHINE RUNS OUT OF GAS, DETROIT Is DAMAGED U. S. WOOD INDUSTRY TO HOLD CONFERENCE Washington, Sept. 22.--Lewis E Pierson, President of the Unite Staies Chamber of Commerce ha: | salted a Commercial Forestry Con ference, the first of its kind, repre senting all types cf wood-using in | dustries and forest owners in al parts of the country, to meet at Chicago, Nov. 16 and 17, to consid er the first steps to be taken b, forest owners toward solution o | their problems on a national basi: Representatives of lumbering ac tivities, paper and pulp interests an« | various industries dependent upo' wood as a raw material, forester: and forest land owners, fire insur ance companies and Government of | ficials will be present BROCKVILLE SEEKS DECISION ON PORT Large Deputation Presents Claim to Terminal Site for Welland Canal Ottawa, Sept. "We are en- deavoring to settle the problem of selecting the Welland Canal term- inal in the same manner as a busi- ness man would deal with a busi- ness problem, and with the Idea of keeping within Canadian channels the maximum of Canadian trade." So stated Hon. Charles Dunning Minister of Railways and Canals, in reply to a deputation of 400 people 23. who urged upon the Government the selection of Brockville as the port terminal. Hon. W. D, Euler, Minister of National Revénue, was also present to receive the deputa- gan to lose consciousness, Another attemnt was made to- | night but the machine had to return because of engine rouble. OPINIONS DIFFER ON WELFARE ACT Toronto Magistrate Urges Strengthening of Pres- ent Measure | |P | | | = | Kingston, Sept, "23. --S8harp dif-| ferences of opinion developed at the | synod Wednesday over the working of the act for the protection of chil- dren born out. of wedlock. Rev. J. Phillips, secretary of The Council of Social Service of Canada, said the act had been found very satisfactory, Judge Sutherland, of Owen Sound, expressed the opinion that the act was difficult to enforce. In his coun- ty he said they had followed the policy of whenever possible obtain- ing a lump sum from the father, even if it were small. in preference to us- ing the machinery of the act. Under the act the father may be ordered to pay a sum weekly or monthly to tha mother for the support of the child. H. Usher Miller, of Saint John, N. B., declared the law one of the weak- est on the statute books, It had not worked out well in New Brunswick at all, he said. Magistrate Jones, o* Toronto, while admitting the defects of the act, strongly upheld it as the best arrangement possible. He favor- ed the strengthening of its terms if possible. TORONTO TRIPLETS ARE ALL GIRLS Toronto, Sept. 23 --It was a dis- tinetly feminine load which the stork' carried Tuesday to the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Redhill, of this city, in the form of triplets--all girl babies. Mother and babies are reported to be doing well. X-RAY RELIEF MEASURE FOR ADVANCED CANCER Montreal, Que., Sept. 22.--The x-ray and radium have come to play a significant part in the relief of pain in cancer in the female pelvis, Dr. Charles L. Martin, of Dellas, Texas, secretary of the American Boentgen Ray Society in convention here, told members of that body at today's session, when he introduced a technical discussion of clinical measures used in advanced cases. tion. which was headed hy Senator A. C. Hardy. W. H. Comsto~k, Mayor W. B Reynolds and E. J. Smith, all of Rrockville. Mr. Dunning declared that every effort was being made to obtain all information. An inter-department- zl committee had been formed with this end in view, and on this com- mittee was a railway economic ex- | pert from the Canadian National | Railways. As yet the report of this commit- tee had not been received. When it was received, said Mr. Dunning, hr wou'd carefully study the do-ument and jt would also be his duty tc place the report before his collea- gues in the Cabinet ALLEGED RIOTERS ARE EXONERATED Constantinople, Sept. 22.--Nine of the Constantinople Jews arrested for an alleged riotous and anti- Turkish demonstration when they protested against a street car repair wagon breaking a funeral cortege were acquitted today following » sensational trial. The Jewish-Turk- ish soldier, however, was sentenced to 35 days. The alleged riotous demonstra- tion occurred during the funeral of a young Jewish girl murdeied by =z disappointed elderly Turkish suitor of a promiuent family. An emer- gency repair wagon of the street car service tried to pass the cortege and during a protest which ensued alleged Jewish manifestants shour- ed, "We want justice." This cry referred to the treatmem accorded the murderer, who wag placed under medical detention as insane. CHESS AMBASSADOR APPOINTED BY CUBA Havana, Cuba, Sept. 23.--J. R. Capablanca Tuesday was appointed Cuba's chess ambassador to the world. President Machado signed a decree appointing Capablanca a dip- lomatic representative at large with no fixed post but a liberal travelling allowance, so that he can attend in- ternational chess matches. Capablanca now is engaged in de- fending his world championship title at Buenos Aires against Alekhine, the Franco-Russian challenger. Washington. Sept. 23.--Former Senators Lenroot, RepuUlican, of Wiscorsin. and Underwood, Demo- erat, Alabama, were named by Presi: dent Coolidge as arbitration commis- | sioners under the general treaties Dr. Martin indicated that in cases which were extremely advanced, and | the patient, radium and the x-ray employed, brought great relief, with France and Great Britain. The commissions were establish- in which no hopes were held for | ed to handle gemeral arbitration be- tween the I'nited States and Great { Britain and France indiyidually. ed Down dp PROTESTS AGAINST DESECRATION OF MEMORIAL PARK Citizen Says the Use Being Made of the Park is Lamentable "BAN SPORTS THERE" Says There Are Sufficient Playgrounds Without Using This Park Oshawa, Ontario September, 23, 1927 Editor Oshawa Daily Times, Oshawa, Dear Sir: As a citizen of this city and one who has oceasion to walk through Memorial Park every day, I think, 0 say the least, that the use tn 'hich this park is being put latel~ 3 lamentahle, It appears that it is o he no longer a quiet spot in the lieart of a throbbing city where the souls worn by age and wearied hy care may he seated for rest and reflection, but a sporting arena where rugby practices, foothall, ana other sports may he engaged in to the full. Last night a gang of boys were playing rugby, shouting, and kicking up a great how do you do hetween the War Memorial and Centre street Public Schonl I am surprised that those who are responsible for the converting of what was some years ago jokingly referred to as Flanders' Fields' to the Veginnings of a well laid ont park have not long ago entered n protest against the way it has been treated. A considerable amount of best money was expended in order to place the park in the condition It has heen in the last two years, Hardly had «it been seeded down hefore people eut a footpath from the north-east corner to the south- west corner. Large portions of the nark have had to be seeded down twice in order to produce a growth hat bears some semblance to grass. Of conrse, since there are no side- (Continued on page 11) TRUSTEE FINED, THEN DISMISSED Montreal Man Incurs Penalty For Failing to Live Up to Bankruptcy Act Quebec. Sept. 23.--J. R. Burelle, f Montreal, was fined $100 and dis- nissed from his trusteeship by the ijuperior Court for failing to pro- /ide security to earry out his duties vhen he was appointed trustee in he bankruptey of Francois Pelle- ier, of Riviere da Loup. Chief Justice, Sir Francois Le- mieux, further ordered Burelle to return the money he collected for the creditors of the bankrupt man within six days or pay a fine of $500. with an alternative, of six months in jail. { Numerous complaints have been received lately at the office of the official sequestrator entrusted with the duty of seeing that all the pro- visions of the bankruptey act are -arried out, and action will be taken against all those who have failed in 'heir trusteeship, that against Bur- lle being the first of its kind. PLAN EXPANSION OF LABORATORIES St. CathaMpes, Sept. 22.--The thirty acres on Niazara street which formerly comprised the city farm have been purchased from the City of St. Catharines by the Dominion Government. The farm will be used for plant experimental work of the Dominion Laborat here, under the direction of G. H. Berkely, and will be confined entirely to the study and methods of prevention of plant diseases. It will be the largest in- | iviual labora and farm for the study of d in Canada. The present staff of sevem, it is expect- ed. will be increased to ten or elevem next year, when the move is made. ic MINOR HURTS WEREN N STRIKES AUTO Chatham, pt. 22.-- Three occu- pants of a light car miraculously death today when their ma- chine was struck by a westbound freight train at the C.P.R. level crossing on the Provincial highway west of here. The car car was shoved for some distrn~e before it toppled over, a total wreck. The ortupants were Mr. and Mrs Rober: Grrham and their S-year-old daughter Tag, Mrs. Graham sustained a bh "em collar-bone, but Mr. Graham and the little girl: received only cut: and | bruises.