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MEMORIAL CAIRN STARTED Workmen have started the foun- dation for a memorial cairn on the site of the boyhood home of Sir Jhn A. MacDonald, whose parents lived near Hay Bay for a few years before returning to Kingston, about 1830. BOARD OFFICIAL RESIGNS H. D. Wrightman, secretary- treasurer of the Kingston Board of Trade, has resigned to become dis- trict representative of the London Life Assurance Company. During the time he has built up from a membership of 15 to that of 400. ALUMNI OFFICERS ELECTED "Rev. D. C. Ramsay, M. A, of Belleville, was elected President of the Theological Alumni Association of Queen's University, which yester- day concluded its thirty-fifth annu- al conference here. Other officers elected were: Vice-President, Rev. G. A. Sisco of Renfrew; Secretary, Rev. W. H. Raney, B. A, B. D, Kingston: Treasurer, Rev. William Morgan, B. D.. Kingston, Treasurar, Rev. William Morgan, B. D., Kings- ton. MAGISTRATE RETURNED LIQUOR Acavitted of a charge of drinking EASTERN ONTARIO NEWS liquor in a public place when Chief Fdward Scott of Renfrew admitted | that he had not actually seen the drinking. Herbert Gilmet of Are | prior yesterday asked Magistrate | Chown for his bottle back. The | liquor was returned to him. | CHAMPION PLOWMAN BPATRS | At the Frontenac County Plow- man's Association open match, held | on the farm of Alfred Franklin, | Joyceville, fyesterday, William A. John of Deseronto was declared the champion plowman by the judges. beating John McGlynn, the veteran of Wolfe Island, who held this championship for many years. Mr. MrGlvan {8 now 75 years of age. BFYLEVILLE WANTS BUS FEES Hon, Mr Henry, Minister of High- ways, will be requested by Belleville City Council to have busses which ply to and from the city contribute a certain fee to the city the same #s they are required to pay to the department. The money to be so de- rived to be applied to the mainten- ance of streets in the municipality. GRAIN RECORDS BROKEN Welland Canal grain grain traffic | broke every existing record during the month of October, according to | figures available at the Port Col. | borne office of the Department of | Railwavs and Canals. Not only were all records broken for a sin- #le month, but the figures for one | year to date are aleady some twentv rillifr~g atove the previous record | for the canal established in 1925, vhile tha total f~rtv millinns ahnve the firures to Nov. 1 last vear | Durin~ October. 21.012 153 hushnlg of grein were carried through from | Port Colhnne en ronte to Montreal and foreign points, bringing the ton- | totl mavement for one year up to 154,189 572 bunehels. During 1925, the previous high year, less than SL | INDI'S LEADERS | TO TALK SECRETLY Politicians Buzz Over . "Mystery" Meeting of . This Week Calcutta, Nov. 3. -- Politicians were puzzled on Tuesday over a "mystery" | conference called by the Viceroy, at which, it was reported, political and communal leaders will discuss matters of most urgent importance to the wel- tare of India. Official circles maintained an air of | closest secrecy regarding the meeting scheduled, to be held this week. Interest in the conference was in- tensified by the fact that Mahatma Gandm and Dr. Ansari, President of the National Congress, have accepted invitations. Some politicians predicted that the basis of the discussions would concern drastic steps to end communal out~ rages. Others believed the Viceroy would urge on party leaders the ad- vantage of forming a parliamentary comnussion to review the question ot India's political future. Regarding the latter possibility the Nationalist organ, Forward, said edi- torially : "No imperialist nation ever relaxed its grip on a subject country unless forced to do so. The only way to in- duce reasonableness and magnanimity in foreign usurpers is to resist their authority, "A complete boycott would at least tell the world that India has not been a party to framung a constitutional fraud. : "Let the moderates desist from be- traymg the mterests of their country." WOMEN'S INSTITUTE SELECT DELEGATES FOR CONVENTION (By Start kKeporter) Whitby, Nov. 4.--'ine Wnitby Wo men's Institute held their postponed meeting yesterday afternoon in the Library. The business of the meet- ing was important but only a small uumber attended. The choosing of delegates to the impending Women's Institute Covention wus the inoust weighty matter up for settlement. Miss M. D. Powell and Miss I. Mc. Clellan were elected. An appeal from Institutes In | North Ontario for clothing was also considered. Nothing was decided in | this matter but the. attitude of the was favorable toward it, | aL RA BL 135,000,000 bushels were ecarried through during the whole season, while the movement up to Nov. 1 last year was only 110,663,202 bush- els. laid SEVENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION The seventh annual convention of the Catholic Women's League of the Archdiocese of Kingston held in Perth, these officers were elected: Diocesan President, Mrs. Charles O'- Reilly, Smith's Falls; First Vice President, Mrs. C. J. Brennan, Des- eronto; Second Vice-President. Miss Sara Swan, Kingston; third Viee. President, W. J. McHenry, Brock- ville; Corresponding Secretary, Miss Dolan, Kingston; Recording Secre- tary, Mrs. J. C. Franklin, Brock. ville; Treasurer, Hiss Henley, Belle- ville; Councillors, Mrs. Fortune, Trenton; Miss F. McCann, Perth; Mrs. Sheils. Kemvuville: Mrs. De- muy, Smith's Falls; Mrs. Bohan. Kingston: Mrs. Dolan, Belleville. and Miss L.eamy, Napanee. INORITY FIGHTS BIG RAIL MERGER Van Sweringens are Specu- lating Stockholders Charge Washington, Nov. 3. -- Speculation and not transportation benefits form the underlying aim of the proposed acquisition by the Chesapeake & Ohio of the Erie and Pere Marquette rail- roads for the Van Sweringen interests, Thomas P. Gay, counsel for protesting minority stockholders, told the Inter- state Commerce Commission on Tues- day. Gay argued that the financial ar- rangements of the proposed merger were unfair to the minority stockhold- ers, Stock in the Erie & Pere Marquette railroads has advanced over $28,000, 000 in value since the Van Swerin- gen's optioned the shares last spring in anticipation of the merger of the two roads with the C. & O., Herbert D. Fitzpatrick, chief counsel for the C. and O,, declared in presenting his The OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1927 final arguments for approval of the consolidation, show that the merger is in the public interest, Fitzpatrick said. The total assets of the proposed sys- tem would be $1,310000000, with a corporate surplus of $228,000,000, he declared. CHINESE QUARREL OVER OATH RITUAL Miniature Tong War Avert: ed by Detectives' Interference Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 3.--A minia- ture Chinese tong war was narrowly averted in West Park Cemetery on Tuesday. . The ritual required in taking oath over a freshly killed white rooster started the trouble in which 15 Chinese witnesses called in the tgial of George Yee, former president of the Hip Sing Tong, for the murder of Lee Yick Gar here last January, were involved. Facts presented to the commission |b i ' nesses swore the usual American oath, saying only an oath over the fresh lood of a white rooster would serve. The place, he said, must be a ceme- tery where forefathers of his race were buried. Judge Samuel H. Sil- bert acceded to Yee's demands and designated court bailiffs and detectives to accompany the Chinese. Joe Lin, secretary of the On Leong Tong, de- manded the American oath be sworn over the rooster. Yee swinging a , chicken over a giave proposed a Chin- ese oath and the rival factions were near blows when detectives inter- vened. Peace was restored when Judge Sil- bert, wrote out the Chinese oath ana the American rituals were said ovei the fresh blood of a newly slain white 100ster. GEORGE P. SMITH WINS CASE IN ALBERTA DAMAGE ACTION Edmonton, Alta., Nov. 3.--The civil action brought by the Provin- cial Treasury against George P. Smith, former Minister of Educa- tion, for the recovery of $5,820 al- leged to have been paid out in 1921 for "printing not dome" was dis. missed by Mr. Justice Hyndman in Supreme Court here today. : Yee objected when the Chinese wit- NN -------- f - 3 i - a - Se Christmas ---The Finest THE APPRECIATED op/ Look!' Listen' To These Extraordinary Bargains Come In Now is the Time to make lections tor Assortment i. Ever EAST IS AGAINST BNA. ANENDENT Premiers to Discuss Question of Amending the Constitution Ottawa, Nov. New Brunswick and Nova Scotia--'he four original signatories to the British North America Act--will prcbably oppose any suggestoins to amend the act at tomorrow's Conference of Pro- vincial Premiers. Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta are expected to support a proposal for the establishment of a system of pro- cedure under which the B.N.A. Act may be amended. British Columbia and Prince Edward Island, it is under- stood, may support the suggestion in certain respects. The question of amend'ng the Cana- dian Constitution is expected to come up at the morning session, and the likelihood is that the discussion will continue into the afternoon. Premier W. L. Mackenzie King or 3--Ontario, Quebec, TRIN Fm -- ET DODDS ") KIDNEY ~ Hon. Ernest Lapointe, Minister of Justice, will probably outline the posi- tion of the while each of the Premiers of the nine Provinces is expected to speak. 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