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VOL. 1---NO. 102 =| The Oshawa BD The Oshawa Daily Reformer atly Times Et Shite: ond OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1927 13 Cents a Week; 2 Cents a Copy. Second Section--Pages 9-12 Oshawa Poultry Sh INPLICATES THE CHIEF IN MONEY ~~ TRANSACTIONS Witness Says Thompéon Sought to Have Certain Sums Camouflaged WINDSOR PROBE IS ON Charges Include Accepting of Bribes From Operators of Gambling Houses Windsor, Nov, 1.--Daniel Thomp- son, suspended Windsor police chief, sought to induce Charles F, Burnie, police electrician, to camouflage as "material" sums of money said to have been paid the chief by Windanr merchants for burglar alarm sys- tems supplied firms by the police department, so Superintendent Bur- nie declared Froday before a board of inquiry into charges against Chief Thompson, Superintendent Burnie"s evidence in this regard came out when the police board commenced a quiz in- to cheques from business firms, which Ald, Curry claims the chief construed to his own use instead of turning them over to the city trea- surer, as required by a regulation of the police commission, 'Did Not Receive Monies George P, Warllo, secretary of the police board, stated that no monies for burglar alarm services had heen handed over to him for submission to the city treasurer, though all money collected by the department. should he placed with him, The charges are being heard hy Judge Coughlin and Mayor Jackson, the courtroom being jammed. The charges, which number eight, were made hv Alderman Curry, and in- clude allegations that the chief per- mitted the operation of ' gambling houses-amd that he accepted bribes. 17 SHIPS POSTED AS CASUALTIES It is Feared That This Esti- mate May Yet Be Exceeded London, Oct, 31---A moving story of the perils of those seeking their livlibood on the deep, a story whose pathos is heightened by the at tendant circumstances of Irish su- perstition, was told today in cor nection with the disaster which ov :r- took with terrible suddenness the Irish fishermen off the west coast, in the gale of Friday night, The storm was of unusual vio flence. It swept the British Isles and took all told, by land and sea, some #0 or 70 lives, The figures are not yet available, as reports of wider spread catastrophes are arriving piecemeal. and it may be days be: fore all is known. No fewer than 17 ships are posted at Lloyds as casualties, and it is feared that the tale of these ship- ping losses is incomplete. But all the suffering endured in England, pales before the horror of the disaster which befell the west coast Irish fishermen, whose priests were today pronouncing "condition (Continued on page 12) GAMBLING CLUB RAIDS NET $2,050 AT ST. CATHARINE. rli-- St. Cathdrines, Ont, Oct. 31.--Fines to the amount of $2,150 were netted in police cobrt here today, as a re- sult 'of the recent raid, when police battered in the doors of the. Sport: and Information Club, James street. William Ward and Peter Brady, Ham- ilton men, charged with running a common house, were fined $600 and costs. Howard Flack, city on a similiar charge, was fined $400 Flack was not present at the time of the raid. The eight men arrested, charged with being trequenters, paid from $50 to $70 each in fines. The warning was g'ven that an attempt to conduct the club in another place in the «¢ would mean a jail sentence on . the next convictior. WHEAT CARGO MAY HAVE CAUSED SINKING OF STEAMER Montreal, Oct. 31.--Wheat, swollen by the inrushing water from the hole ripped in the bow of the Italian steam- ship Vulcano, may have burst the , thus causing the vessel to sink, Guanite Polverini, chief engineer of the Yulcano, suggested at the probe into the collision today before the Wreck Commission court. Polverini declared that he thought the ship could have remained floating when he first inspected the damage caused when the French Srsighter Unio struck her during a se fog mear Father Point on October 18. Undertaking A. A. Crowle, Proprietor of the Luke Burial Company, Started as Member of the Firm of Luke Bros,, Being Associated With Charles E. Luke and Ambrose Luke-- Partnership Continued Un- til 1914 When Mr, Crowle Formed New Company Twenty-five yoars in business in Oshawa is the re.ord of Albert A. Crowle, proprietor of the Luke Bu- rial Company," who today completes a quarter.of a century of undeitak- ing service to the people of Oshawa and Ontario County. When Mr. Crowle first engaged in the undertaking business he was a member of the firm of Luke Bro- thers, furniture dealers and under- takers, Charles E. Luke and Am- brose Luke, of whom Mr. Crowle 1s a brother-in-law, were associated with him in the business and tnis partnership continued until 1914 when Mr. Crowle separated from the company and formed a new or- ganization. the Luke Burial Comp- any, which he has operated since that time. In 1914 Mr. Crowle war alone in the business, now his busi- ness has grown until he has two un- dertakers in his employ. The original furniture business o. the Luke family was established al- most eighty years ago in 1848 when Jesse Luke and his brother, Joseph bezan to manufacture furniture and conduct funeral services, at vue same location on King street east, From that time until the present the establishment has heen continu- ously in the Luke family. When Mr. Crowle first formed the Luke Burial Company he loea- ted on Simcoe street, but two years arn returned to the present loca- tion 67-69 King street east. This Completes 25 Years Today in Business in City A. A, CROWLE was the site of the original Luk: homestead erected in the earl. fourties, and whi'h. was rewod- aed to meet the demands of modern business. A mor tuary chapel was constructed and the building renovated, to its pre: anL attractive appearance. Albert Crowle was horn in Brock township a son of the late Mr. anc Mrs, William Crowle, and practical ly all his life has heen spent in his native county. He moved to Oshawa 383 years ago and for some time was empoyed by the Ontario Malle able Iron Co., previous to that time having spent ahout four years in the United States. His father was a farmer' of Brock township, and he received his education in the school nf that township before coming to this city. He has bnilt un a splend- id husiness connection in Oshawe and Ontario Connty, and is the sne- epesnr to the founders of what' ie nrntahlv Oshawa's oldest business institution, Sergt. J. R. Wilkinson and Other Witnesses Testify That Detroit Gunmen Of- fered to "Bump Off' Curry --Recalls Phone Call from Detroit ---- Windsor, Oct. 31,--That a Detroit gunman offered to "bump off" Curry, or take him for a long ride," and that Windsor constables had acted in the capacity of "'trarfic of- ticers" for downtown blind-piggers, were testified this afternoon by Sergt. J. R. Wilkinson and other witnesses, respectively, at the in- vestigation into misappropriation and inefficiency charges preferred against Chief Constable Daniel Thompson by Ald. Curry. Offer to "Bump Off" Alderman Wilkinson, the fingerprint expert of the Windeor Police Department, who at Friday's session of the Police Commission had testified that he had heen able to purchase and trade in threé cars in two months on $200 a month salary, was recalled to the witness stand by W. D. Roach, coun- sel for Ald. Curry. The Sergeant today gave evidence that was just as sensational as that of Friday when he attempted to explain how he was able to finance purchase of the cars on his police salary. "I was sitting in my office in the Police Building," the Sergeant said. 'The telephone rang. A voice said: 'Is that Windsor?' I said: "Yes." The voice asked me who was talking. I 'old them, and the voice at the other ad of the wire went on to say: 'Say, do you want that guy Curry bumped off?' I said: 'What do you mean?' And they said: 'Do you want him pumped off --taken for a long ride?' J said: "No, we didn't do that sort of thing in Canada,' and they hung up." Call From Detroitt ' Sergeant' Wilkinson, réplying to a question put. by Mr. Roach, said there appeared to be more than one person at the other end of the line. He knew the call came from De- troit, he said, because the person asked if it was Windsor. "lI don't kmow who the person was," Sergeant Wilkinson continu- ed. "I thought perhaps it was some enterprising gunman from Detroit seeking a job. I reported the imei- dent to Chief Thompson, and I heard nothisg more about it." The accusation against the police for "steering" race-track patroms to 14 Pitt Street East, where Ross Fleury is said to hsve operated a Allege Constables Acted As "Traffic Officers" For Blind Piggers in Windsor RACED FOR TRAIN THROUGH WINDOW Montreal, Que., Oct. 31--Completing some purchases on the second floor of the Renault Department Store at Beauceville, a lady shopper heard the! whistle of an approaching train which was to carry her home. Rushing down- stairs, she dashed across the ground floor and, instead of taking the door, walked into an empty show window and clean through the plate glass. Cut sughtly about head and hands, she picked herself up in the street and sped off, 18108 She caught the train. 'GBS.' DELIVERS PRONOUNCEMENT Declares Archbishop's Letter 'Was "Entirely Anti- Intellectual" London, Nov. L--Bernard Shaw Friday delivered a pronouncement on the church controversy between the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Birmingham, the Right Rev, Erpest William Barnes Shaw said: "The Archbishop's letter has the virtue of being entirely good humored and trying to make peace. It has also another quality--the quality of being entirely anti-intell- ectual. It is a heartfelt appeal for ambiguity. What moved Barnes was a strong dislike of not k~owing what it is he believes and a sort of in- stinetive belief that it is just as well not to know too accurately." Bishop Barpes in a letter to the Archbishop said: "No man shall drive me to Tennessee or to Rome." The Archibishop in reply begged the Bishop to dismiss such thoughts from his mind, but addressed his chief reproof to the Bishop's treat- ment of the question of the Sacra- ment, GUELPH BIBLE SOCIETY ELECTS OFFICERS FOR YEAR Guelph, Ont., Oct. 31--W_E. Buek- ingham was re-elected to the presi- dency of the Guelph Branch of the British and Foreign Bible Society at the annual meeting. H. W. Cram and Wm. Laidlaw were re-appointed treas- urer and secretary respectively. Af The sogiety last year collected and remitted to the Upper Canada Bible Society the sum of $1,300, the largest (Continued on page 12) contribution in Canada for a city of this MAKE ATTEWPT TO WRECK MINES Two Explosions Occur in the Drumheller Area But Both Unsuccessful Drumheller, Alta, Oct, 31-- D_pamiters today made an une successful attempt to wreck the Hygrade and Elgin coal mines. Two explosions were heard in different parts of the town. The damage at the Hygrade was slight, only a few boards being blown out of the end of a building which forms part of the box car loader arrangement, but at the Elgin mine, some dis tance awa from the Hygrade, the explosion blew a part of the cement supports holding the ventilating fan in position, as well as breaking one of the ive iron supy Work at the Hygrasle was not inter. rupted, but the Elgin will not he able to operate for several days, It is believed explosive used was that stolen Sunday night from the Atlas mine, All three of the mines ave affected by the present strike of the Ca. nadian Miners' Union, A rizid investigation is being conducted by/ the police and ci tizens, The last dynamite ont. rave here occurred during the 1925 coal strike when the mine of the Hopkins brothers at New Come was dynamited, WRECKAGE WASHED ON MICHIGAN SHORE Tale of Tragedy Revealed as Part of Lake Vessel is Picked Up 8, Ontonagon, Mich., Oct, 31.--Another grim tale of tragedy on the upper lakes is silently told by wreckage age washed ashore at Fourteen Mile Point, near here. But the tale is only partly told, creating a mystery for marine men to solve. There is little to aid in a solution, a few pieces of painted timber, three Irtters of the name of the ill-fated craft, a ship's door, a life ring, hatch cover, and a portion of a forward cah- in. These have been washed ashore near the light house on a bleak point of land jutting out into Lake Super- icr. The first report ot the find was made by Edward Macgregor, keeper f the light, who said it looked like new wreckage. Marine circles have received no re- ports of a missing vessel, all passing through the Kewecna waterway hav- ing reached their destination. The three letters "Han" painted on the wreckage give no clue to the name of the vessel. There is a possibility that the wreck- age is from a craft torn loose during a sudden squall and wrecked. It is also . believed possible the wreckage is from some ship cast a- shore in previous years, which is gradually being battered to pieces by heavy seas. This theory, however, finds little favor with shipping men, inasmuch as the pieces do not show the wear and tear of exposure. There is a third possibility, but mar- iners of all ranks refuse to comment upon it. The luckless boat may have run fast upon an uncharted reef, or run off her course and struck up on the rocks, and not being equipped with radio apparatus, may not have been able to communicate with a coast guard station. This, too, has its inconsistencies, as it is more than likely that any signal flares sent up by the distressed vessel would have been sighted and aid rendered. While the coastguard stations re: port some strong seas recently, the weather has been remarkably clear o storms for this season of the year, and it is unlikely any ship could be carried off her course by the buffeting ol waves. In the meantime coastguards are to watch for further trace of the vessel hoping that somié piece of timber bear- ing the full name of the ship will be washed ashore. The wreckage picked up along the short fails to give any clue as to the size of the vessel or whether it was a large ship or only a barge. INCREASE AT PORT ARTHUR OF PROVINCIAL POLICE FORCE Port Arthur, Ont, Oct. 31--The strength of the provincial police in the Port Arthur district is being increased, following instructions from General Williams, chief commissioner. Extra work caused by the enforcement of regulations in respect to dance halls and the Liquor Control Act is given as the reason, Three men are being added to the Port Arthur headquarters. They are J. A. McKee, T. Wright and P. Phalen. The former two have been constables on the Port Arthur city force, and the latter turnkey at the district jail. Rev. Capt, A. J. Brace Gives Fascinating Illustrated Ad- dress on China and Tibet Before Combined Meeting of Oshawa Young People's Organizations The most satisfactory roofs in Chentu, China, are made in Oshawa. That was just one of the interesting facts brought out by Rev. Capt. A. J. Brace in his fascinating illustrat- ed lecture on China and Tibet last night, when he addressed the com- bined Young People's organizations of the city in Albert Street United Church. The meeting was held un- der the auspices of the Young Peo- ple's Union of this city, which is the motive power behind the Young People's Week activities that ave taking p'ace in Oshawa this week. The opinion of Chinese authorities with which Cant, Brace ag-ees ia that the Christian church is indi- rectly responsible for the unrest and turmoil that is rife in that country today. The Western mission:ries and traders have practiced a certain superiority over the people that is at the root of some of the unrest, and the Christiane have been preach- ing Christ's gospel of equality and of the people realize the political condition of the country and rise in their strength to demand a greater freedom. The speaker prid tribute to the Christian general Fung, who is a loyal friend of Y.M.C.A. and other Christian work in China. On one occasion Fung expressed a wish before the assembly in the YM.C.A. at Chengtu that the warring fae- tions of China would get together in a Christian spirit and settle thelr differences, then "there would be no more civil war in China". Capt. Brace expressed the opinion that although Fung has fallen on evil days now he is still the hope of China's final peace. When Christians go to the Ori- ent to take up missionary work, they by no means Jose touch wi'b Occidental education, and a picture was shown of the school for mis- sionaries' children where the boys and girls of the Canadians in the university town receive instruetion. An interesting feature of thig school is that, while their parentg rome from every province in the Domin- fon, the school follows the curricu- lum of Ontario Schools, and teachers are brought from this country on a thred year contract to teach the missionaries' and Christian institutione of Tibet and China, the speaker showed slides of the wonderful spendor and architecture of some of the temples and other native buildings in this western section of China. Ineluded was the beautiful Temple of Heaven in Pekin. and other fam~us centers of worship, as well as,the tomb of Confucius the greatest of Chinese scholars. Capt. Brace reminded his audience that the .Confucians are not idol worshippers but scholars, and they embody in their teaching some of the best modern ethics. Nevertheless their religion has not the soul of the Christian faith, and many of their followers are turning to the true God. The Chinese are quick to adopt advantageous points in Western civ- ilization in some parts of the coun- try, even to the extent of purchas- (Continued on page 11) MANY COMPANIES ASK INCORPORATION Ottawa, Nov. 1--The following in- corporations are given public notice in this week's Canada Gazette: Mowatt and Moore, $50,000, Mont- real; Ulverton Pulp Company, stock no par value. Montreal; Lion Sport- ing Goods Company, of Canada, stock no par value, Toronto; Second Canadian General Investment Trust, £10,000.00, Toronto; Thorburn and Abbott, $40,000, Ottawa; Confedera- facturing Company, $100,000, Ri- guad, P.Q.; Border Brewers and Dis- tillers. stock no par value, Windsor; Eden Valley Oils, stock no par value, Outlook, Sask.; Gaults (Alberta), $1,000,000, Edmonton; Anti-Vae- cination and Medical Liberty League of Canada without share capital, To- ronto; Canadian Davis, $20,000, Montreal; Heat Exchange Avparatus, £25.000. Montreal; Svndicate, Ottawa: Smoot Sand and Gravel Corporation. stock no par valne Waodstock, Ont: Ganeral Steel Wares, $6,000.000, Montreal, Meo- Feccon ond Robbins, $1,000,000, Montreal. brotherhood that has made the rest ! tion Telephone and Electric Manu- 1 Renown Mining'! + FORMER ARMY OFFICER IS HELD AS FORGER New York, Oct. 31--Charles S. Wallace, also known as Charles W. Douglas, a former British Army officer and until recently cashier for the Waldorf Astoria Service Corporation, was held without bail { for the grand jury in Long Island City Court today. The complaint charges Wallace forged a check for $1,050 on March 7 !a't, but police say that he has comiaitted thefts totalling more than 23,000 from his employer; in the last year, and that he obtained $16,000 from the same firm while in their employ for two years in Cuba. Wailace was a lieutenant in the British Army in India, and in 1859 resigned his commission after he had suffered en injury to his leg in a polo match. LWW. BATTLES FOR COLORADO FIELD Workers Avoid Bloodshed in Mine Dis- turbances JOAN D'ARC Progasanda - Most Serious Weapon of Strikers, Is Claim Denver, Colo., Nov. 1.--Colorado has become the national battleground for the Industrial Workers of the World in their most significant demonstration of recent years. Fighting behind a mass of propa- ganda that has confused many of the miners as well as the public, the I.W.W. has launched a strike which has all but stopped operations in coal fields of the state, National co-opera- tion is behind this attempt to wedge the LW.W. into a position of some influence in the relations of capital and labor, The strike. which started 11 days ago, so far has developed no seri- ous outbreaks of violence. Many be- lieve that only a spark is needed to start a chain of events which might even parallel the bloody episodes of the 1913-14 strike in Southern Colo- rado. For » time Friday it appeared that the injuring of 19-year-old Milka Sablich, an aggressive Joan of Are »f the coal fields, might be that spark. Milka, who has kept hun- dreds of miners from work by her fierv speeches, broke through 20 euards at a mine six miles south of Walsenburg, and ran on to company nroperty. A guard following in pur- anit, rode her down, and, leaning from his saddle, dragged her half a block by the wrist, : Wrist Broken Milka's wrist was broken, and she suffered possible internal injuries. Mutterings throughout the LW.W. ranks spoke of retaliation. There was talk of gun play and a raid up- on the offending guards. Later in the day 500 I.W.W. pickets drove into Walsenburg by automobile and drove to the mine where Milka had been injured, They made no attack on the guards, how- ever, merely circling about the property singing LW.W. songs. Coal operators have asked for state troops at the mines but. Gov- ernor Adams so far has refused to grant the request. He did dispatch three national guard airplanes for ¢ survey of the coal fields and this was taken as a gesture to show that the state would use force if neces sary. Un-American Characterizing the LW.W., as an "un-American organization," Gover- nor Adams has declared he will not recognize the strikers under that name. The coal operators also fee' that although they might deal with the T'nited Mine Workers. they want nothing to do with the LW.W., whict they recard as a trouble-seeking group with no real thought for the improvement of working conditions Economically, the laying off of 2,- 000 men at the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company steel mills at Pueblo has been the most serious result of the strike. It was announced that the plant would run at one-third capac"ty as lone as the reserve sup- plv of coal held out. Other indvetrial plants and rail- ronda ave fecling the ninch of a coal shortace. Steps have been taken to heein the imnortation of coal from Ttah ond Wyoming to meet essen- tial needs. Tn the 1912.74 strike genraq of minnns and enldiors were killed ir puerta warfare boatween the strik- Jers and State troops ow to Be Held December 13,14, 15 Roofing Made in Oshawa Is Most Satisfactory In Chentu, Speaker Says ANNUAL EXHIBITION EXPECTED T0 SET UP A NEW RECORD Although Some Distance Away Plans Now Practically Complete EXPECT MANY ENTRIES Prize List is Now Being Print- ed--The Secretary is ® edu Optimistic Oshawa Poultry and Pet Stock Association will hold its annual show in the armeries here on De ember {13, 14 and 15. This was decided at | the regular meeting of the Associa- | tion last night. Although the dates of this annual event is some dis- | tance away, plans are now practical- {by complete for one of the largest shows in the history of the Assoc a- | tion. - The prize list is now in the hands i of the printers and will soon pe ready for mailing to prospective ex- hibitors from all points of Ontario and some in Quebec, In addition te the many cups and trophies, substantial prizes are to be awarded to the winners, C. W. Law, secretary, is very optimistic in regard to the ocming exhibition due fo the fact that previous shows have met with great success and indiea- tions at the present time are thot nlihre of this year's evhibits win far surpass previous records as well as in number, The local show which is held dur- ine the month of December each vear has gained gre't prominence threnghout the provinee, and it no ranks as one of the best in Ontario. WOULD RID AREA OF DISEASED GATTLF Motherwell Says | Move Would Improve Dairy Products Ottawa, Nov. 1.--Federa] Depart- ment of Agriculture is ready when the farmers of that area and the Ontario Provincial Government wish to create what is known as a "Free Area" in the triangular district bounded by the Rideau Canal and the Ottawa and St. Lawrence Rivers to their junction near Montreal. This would mean that all infected -attle in the area would be destroy- »d and their owners compensated recording to the scale already laid own by the department. It would »esult also in the improvement of dairy and other products and the in- ~rease of evportation to the United States. Announcement to this effect was made by Hon. W. R. Motherwell, Minister of Agriculture, in an ad- Aress to a local service club Satur- day. Mr. Motherwell said that within the last six months the big exporta- tion »f Canadian cattle has switched from the Old Country to the United States. He gave various reasons for this, principally the war among the Old Country "meat barons" and the recent coal strike. "All our export cattle are going to the South," said Mr. Motherwell, * "because the cattle raisers are re- *eiving such prices that they cannot ford to send their stock else- where." HENOMENON ON TIDAL WAVE WITNESSED AT PORT ARTHUR Port Arthur, Ont., Oct. 31--Sailors, 'ock workmen and officials along the "aterfront declare that during an 'actrical storm which passed over Cort Arthur last nicht and following wo exceptionally lovd thunder claps a vave similar to a tidal wave rolled in rom the bay washed over the break- vater at the docks to rise about six eet, tossing boats against the pier, but loing no damage. WINNIPFG "STRANG)] EP" STANDS TRIAL FOR MURDER TODAY Winnineg, Man. Oct 31--Th~ «il- ence with which Earl Nelson, alleosd "strangler" has hidden his thoush s nd feelings, since his commi'tal la + lune, remains unbroken on "hs evs ~F his trial for the murder nf Mrs Tmil. Patterson and 14-vear-old T.ola Cowan of Winnipeg. Nelson will annear in Assie Court tomorrow, le-vina tho leath cell of the provincial j»3' for the 'first time in early five months. THIRTEEN HURT IN VANCOUVER BY WEEK-END MOTOR """SHAPS Vancouver, RC. Ont. 31-1, more than 70 automobile =~ haps r n-rted tn police of Greater Vareconver av = ty week-end. 13 perscng wo-s 10 Lg two of them seriously ris ® in a critical ecndto : y broken spine and Mrs, Tose! suffered a fracture of the skull. ni witl met Un ata Chi alk ing RAR a h