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hig The Oshawa h Daily Reformer OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1926, J J All IS GIVEN A 2-YEAR TERM IN KINGSTON | Harold 'Gerrard Convicted of Shoplifting--Entered Lock's Store STOLE CLOTHING Tiara Labor Accompanies Sentence Meted Out in Local Court Two years with hard labor in Portsmouth penitentiary, Kingston, was the penalty imposed this morn» ing in police court here on Harold (Peck) Gerrard, convicted of shop- lifting. The theft involved dresses, etc, from the Lock Ladies' Wear, 38 Simeoe street north, and sentence was passed by Magistrate Alfred H, Hind, This is the first sentence im- posed in this city in the 'burglaries which have taken place recently, The offence for which Gerrard will pay the penalty of a penitentiary sentence, was committed about one o'clock on the morning of December 15, when eleven dresses and one kimona, which cost the owners of the store $133, were taken, Gerrard was arrested on Wednesday, Decem- ber 28 after a chase which included Bowmanville and local interviews, The arrest was made by Provincial Constable Mitchell and Chief Con- Jstable Friend of the local force, Gerrard was arraigned in police court the next -day and pleaded guilty to the charge, being remand ed until today for sentence. He ad- mitted. that he gained entrance to the store with a key which he had found in the door a few days pre- viously, Gerrard lives immediately over the store, and laid his plans with care, After stealing the goods he had hid them in a car back of Johnston's arage, and the next day had taken Ear es Blair to see them, on a ride into the country where they would not be observed, The trip was made in Blair's taxi, and on their return Blair took charge of the dresses, Gerrard keeping the kimona for his own use, ment was made whereby Blair paid Gerrard $20 for the dresses, In moving for sentence Crown Me- | Gibbon stated that Gerrard had three or four previous convictions of shop- if¥ing. He has, for these two offen- ces, served terms of one month and six months, respectively, in the county jail and the Ontario Reforma- tory, The situation in Oshawa in segard to burglaries and similar crimes must be looked on as serious, the crown attorney said, and this is the first time in recent months that "one of the criminals of this been caught and convicted here, There is only one way to stop these erimes, and that is to put the guilty men where they cannot commit them - for a considerable time. Magistrate Hind, before passing sentence, reviewed Gerrard's pre- wious convictions, and commented that this time he had showed a much more systematic method of commit- ting the offence, and was back at his old game regardless of the two jail terms which he has served, The magistrate then sentenced him to two years at hard labor, RESUME GOSTELLD INQUEST TONIGHT 28 Witnesses Summoned -- Expect Testimony to Sey Girl's Skull Fractured (By Canadien Press) Jan. 12 ~Twenty-eight have been summoned for LE Subsequently an arrange- vs a £5 'on..a 1 TWO MEETINGS A MONTH; 4 LAUNCH EXPLODES IN HAMBURG HARBOR ALL PERSONS RESCUED (Cable Service to The Times by Canadian Press) loadd to a wo workers, oded Hamburg harbor this morning. The work- ers jumped overboard, All ninety persons aboard were rescued from among the ice flo:s of the har- bor, Thirty-five of them were move or less seriously burned, HUGILIS GUILTY ~ OFBANKROBBRY Clerks Underpaid, Judge De- c'ares-- Witness -Breaks Down rr -- ~ Windsor, Jan, 11---Following de: liberations of three hours, a jury in Supreme Court at Sandwich this evening brought in a verdiet of guilty against Eric Hugil on trial for the robbery which armed of the Howard Avenue branch of the Bunk of Montreal here on Nov, 14 short: ly after noon, A recommendation for mercy was attached to the verdict, ' Miss Dorothy Quartermaln, ledg- er-keeper at the robbed bank, star witness for the Crown, broke down in the midst of a long and gruelling cross-éxamination at the hands of Major J, H, Clark, counsel for the defense, She burst into a flood of tears and the court was compelled to eall a short recess, but Mise Quartermnin resumed the stand and stuck to her story, which war to the effect that Hugil was the bandit who robbed the bank, Miss Quartermain, who is 19 years old testified that she deliberately took a good look at the bandit during the hold-up and was sure it was Hugil, 20-YEAR-OLD CASINO IS GUTTED BY FIRE AT AUBREY PARK (By Associated Press) Aubrey Park, N.J., Jan, 12,-- The twenty-year-old Casino, a two- storey frame site of many board- walk concessions, was gutted by fire today and declared a total loss. The building, which was city owned, was valued at half a mil- lion dollars. 20.YEAR-OLD GIRL HEROINE OF FLOODS London, Jan. 11.--Today's inquest into London's tragic flood disaster turned in a glowing tribute to Miss Marjorie Franckeiss, aged 20, who has emerged as heroine of the catas- trophe, The evidence.revealed thril- fling details of the modest girl's res- cue of a woman and two boys at 2 a.m. when the water poured into the basement flat in which she was sleeping. She dived twice through a window into the darkmess, cutting her legs and feet ro badly that she was rush- ed to a near-by hospital after swim- ming for an hour in desperate res- cue attempts, She drove in a park today, causing a mear-riot by spec- tators, as well as glowing eulogies by ¢he Coroner and Government of- The London Labor party today! adopted a resolution bitterly attack- ing the London County Council for the r p ight of the ing "into the death of Florence Costello, 13-year-old school girl whose body was found in a small creek two £ after she disappeared from her The witnesses are chief- q flood protection, as well as for permitting the poorer classes to live in imsanitary and dangerous basements in the flooded NO SMALL COMMITTEES Trustee Garbutt Introduces Motion Whereby Entire Board Meets First and Third Mondays of Month Doing Away With Indi- vidual Committee Meet. ings -- Motion Carries By Vote of 5 to 4 THREE CHAIRMEN ARE APPOINTED Chairmen Will Preside at Meetings of Board in Com- mittee of Whole During Discuss'on of Matters, With Regular Meeting Following -- E, W, Drew Heads Management, G, B. Norris Property, H, 8, Smith, Finance T, B, Mitchell was re-elected chairman of the Board of Educa- tion at its inaugural session last night, There were nine of the ten members present and Mr, Mitchell had the honor of being elected by a unanimous vote, showing the con- fidence which the memuers of the hoard have in him and the satis- faction they feel with the manner in which he handled the duties of chairman during 1027, However the inaugural -session was not all plain sailing and ws a .esult of a motion introanced by frustees A, IK. Garbuit and A, F, Annis a new procedure will be fol- lowed during this year which will mean the elimination of individual committees, with the Board meet- ing twice a month and every mem- ber of the: poard being a member of all committees, The motion pass- ed on a vote of Hh to 4. Many details have yet to be worked out but these will prob- ably be cleared up at a special meeting .of the woard to be held sonday night, According to the motion passed the Boa.d in yuture will meet on the tirst and third ssondays of ecco month, Nex: Mon~ day being a tegular meeting nighi che board will meet in spec.al ses- son and probably adjourn the reg- ular session for a week, Committee chairmen were elect- ed as in previous yeais with Trus- tee ¥. W, Drew heading the man- agement committee, Trustee G, B. worris, the. property commiiive: ' A. W. Bell, the Vocational Adyisory committee; - and H., 8. smith the finance committee. 'the only committee which will function individually from the woard will be the advisory voea- tional which is a statutory unit whaich is composed of six members of the board and six townspeople. 'The striking committee composed of the committee chairman named the following to represent the ~oard 'srustees, E, L, Vickery, H. 3. Smith, Rey, Father P. J, Bench, Aj F, Annis and A. E, Garbutt, The motion which has changed he system of committees was pre- seuted by 'I'rustee Garbutt as fol- LOWS; "That all members of the Board of Education as a commiftee of tne whole do herea.ter constitute the management, property and finance committees of the board for the purpose of considering the' var- ious departments of the work un- der the coairmanship of such mem- bers of the board as shall be elect- ed vice ebairmen for each such de- partment. Each such vice chair- men shall have the power to cali 2 special meeting of his committee. "That the regular meetings of such committee shall be held bi- monthly at the same time and place as the regular meeting of the board which shall be held bi- monthly on the first and third Mondays of each month." Following the election of the for chairmen of committes were invited, It was at this juncture that '(Continued on page 3) PROF. WADE TOOLE DIES SUDDENLY (By Canadian Press) Guelph, Jan. 12.--Prof. Wade Toole head of the animal Busbandry De- partment, of the Ontario Agricultural College for the past ten years and one of the best known livestock men of Canada, died suddenly late last might, . 1800 SUFFER IN FLOODS IN LONDON, ENG. Investigate Recent Disaster; Find Many in Deplorable Circumstances BC HOUSES SOAKED Saturated With Creosote Carried from Various Factories (By Canadian Press) London, Jan, 13--The Daily Mail, after making an investigation of the disaster caused by the Thames last Saturday, today esti mated that at least eighteen hun- dred men, women and children were in deplorable circumstances These were people of the poorer districts below the business section of the city, They have been try- ing to clean out their dwellings and to re-occupy them hut have found it impossible as the houses are not only soaked with water, but also saturated with creosote, many thousands of gallons of which were carried by the flood from local fac- tories. NO HOPE HELD FOR AVIATORS Ps New Zeeland Fliers Are 50 Hours Overdue--General Search Launched (Cable Sevvice To The Times Dy Canadian Press) Wellington, N.Z.,, Jan, 12 -- More than fifty hours over due, Captain Hood and Lieut, Mont- crieff, New Zealand aviators, mis- sing on the flight from Sydney to New Zealand, today were sought by land and sea, Parties have been chairman of the board nominations) 1 | been foreed to sent to Tararna Mountains on the slim chance that men may have descend in the mountainous region, At the same time a cruiser was despatched to a spot in the sea where it is esti- mated the plape was when her wireless signals] ceased, While the search is going on actively, ob- servers feel that there is little hope for the safety of men, HON, R. B. BENNETT RESICNS AS DIRECTOR OF THE ROYAL BANK (By Canadian Press) Montreal, Que., Jan. 12, -- Sir Herbert Holt, President of the Royal Bank, to-day . announced the resignation of Hon. R. B. Bennett from the directorate of the Bank. While regretting the loss of his services, Sir remarked that his great ability would now be devoted to the ser- vice of the country, LINDBERGH COMPLETES LAST LEG CENTRAL AMERICAN FLIGHT (By Associated Press) Colon, Panama, Jan. 12.--Com- pleting the last leg of the Central American flight, Col. Lindbergh landed safely st France Field at 11.30 this moring, He had hop- ped off from Campo less than an hour before. Ten thousand cheering spectators welcomed him. BICYCLE RACERS ON SECOND HALF OF LONG SIX-DAY GRIND (By Associated Press) Chicago, Jlis., Jan. 12 --Peda) pushers in Chicago's Nineteenth International six-day bicycle race were on the second half of the long grind with Reggie M-Namara and Charley Winter, favorites. blazing the way at six a a. today with a two-lap lead over Geosene and Debaets, the Belgian pair and Lands and Vannek, who were tied for second place. * RE-ELECTED HEAD OF BOARD OF EDUCATION T, B, MITCHELL Vho by a unanimous vote was las! night at the inaugural session of the Board of Education elected chairman for the year 1928. TUXIS BOYS PLAN BOND SELLING DRIVE (By Staff Reporter) Bowmanville, Jan. 12.--Tuxis work in general in Bowmanville is off to an excellent start, Six groups are functioning at the present time, hcad- quarters being gat the Tuxis rooms behind Gilehrist's Drug Store. Two groups, however, meet at St. Paul's United church schoolrcom. The Bond Selling Campaign of the Ontario Older Boys' Parliament will begin on January 28 and continue un- til February 11, hoth dates inclusive. The objective for th's town has been set at $125, a'thcugh last. year. the total rcach was $200, Ten per cent. of the objective goes hack to the rBoys' Work Board of the town and 50 per cent. of the amount raisid over the objective also comes back for the maintenance here. A medal is given to each boy who ra'ses $3 and also one to the hoy raising $13 and $50. It is hoped that the citi zens of Bowmanville will heartily re- spond to the appeals of the boys who are acting in the hehalf of their re- lief work in conjunction with the Y. MCA. The Tuxis boys' group, Sioux, has been reorganized. Last evening the boys got together again and clec'ed a group of officers. The newly formed club wi Il meet Tuesdays in the Tuxis rooms, G, Colmer will act as mentor of the group and Ernest Brown as pretor, Jim Devitt was chosen deputy pretor and Jack Minore secretary- treasurer. 4 TERRIFIC GALE SWEEPS ALASKA Docks and Warehouses in Petersburg are De- molished -- Wrangel, Alaska, Jan, 11-- Lashing @gainst the Alaskan coast, a 90-mile-an-hour gale has followed Saturday's storm. Docks and warehouses in Pe- tersburg were demolished by the wind, according to reports, and the steamer Alameda reported damage in Ketchikan. Many small fishing crafts are reported destroyed and huge log rafts bave been broken up. SEARCH GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES CROSSING BORDER AT NIAGARA (By 'Associated Press) St. Alban's Vt, Jan. 12--The situa- tion at Niagara Falls, N.Y. where customs inspectors of the Interna- tional line were reported to have been ordered to search all govern- ment employees of both Canflda and United States for liguor when they cross the bridges, has no parallel in the second customs district, with headquarters here. Examination is dispensed with in cases of Canadian and Uni States customs andimmi- gration ers who cross and re- cross the International border daily, the chief collector here said today. DUNNING TO MEET THORNTON IN MONTREAL ON THURSDAY Montreal, Que, Jan. 11.--Hon. C. A. Dunning, Minister of Railways and Canals, will be in Montreal Thursday and will spend the day in conference with Sir Henry Thornton, chairman and president of the Cana- dian National Railways, on matters pertaining to the National System. A . F ather In Critical pants Are Saved origin of the fire is unknown, Perhaps - Fatally Burned While Mother Is 10 Cents a Week; 2 Cents a Copy. Condition Grace, 3 and Vernon, 2, Daughters of Mr. and Mrs. W. Jackson, Lose Lives With No Hope for Father's Recovery -- Inquest Ordered While Fire Marshal is Conducting an Investi- gation -- Home Wiped Out By Blaze -- Neighboring House Caught Fire But Occu- (By Canadian Press) Brantford, Ont., Jan, 12.--Grace, three, and Vernon, two, children of Mr, and Mrs. W. Jackson, Delhi, were burned to death, the father is so terribly burned that no hope. is held out for him, and the mother is in a critical condition as a result of the fire which wiped out their home early today, The Mrs. M. Bennett, neighbor, discovered the blaze and, awakeping her husband, brought out Mrs. and Mr. Jackson; but were unable to reach the children in time, The Bennett home also caught fire, but the three Bennett children and much of the furnityre was taken out before ., Coroner Vumstein has called an inquest, and - -ative of the Fire Marshall is ARTE A Teprogen that home was destroyed. BODY OF CANADIAN TAKEN FROM S4 (By Associated Press) Washington, Jan. 18.~The body of James WRose of Als berta, Canada, electrician's mate on the Submarine 8-- 4, was among the fifteen re- covered from the hull of the sunken ship yesterday, ace cording to an announcement today, The body of William Dempsey, wmachinist's mate, whose next-of-kin is Mrs, A, Marchand, sister, of Walk. erville, Ont,, is among the eight still in the submarine, BORDER OFFICERS BEING SEARCHED Canadian Immigration Man Had Liquor in Car, is Report Niagara Falls, N.Y., Jan. 12.-- While customs officials here denied that an order had been issued di- recting customs inspectors on the International. bridges to subject all government employes, includ- ing immigration and customs men of Canada and the United States, to search for liquor when they crossed the bridges from Canada into thir country, such an order was said to be in effect. The order includes also, it fis said, close scrutiny of ali em- ployes of the bridges, it is: claim- ed, The customs, immigration men, ticket fakers and ticket sel- lers are now in the position of searching each other, some point out. SHERBROOKE GIRL VICTIM OF AN ARMED KIDNAPPER Sherbrooke, Que., Jan. 11.-- Last evening 15-year-old Helen Pomereau, of this city, was, at the point of a revolver, forged in- to an automobile by a man, and an hour later she was found in an unconscious condition on a road leading from the city. Her skirt had been torn in strips with which her hands and feet had been bound, while another piece had been used as a gag. The police were immediately notified and the girl removed to the St. Vincent de Paul Hospital, where she regained comsciousness. i is said she suffered no serious arm. LIQUOR CASE ADJOURNED Once more, in police court this morning, the case of The King vs. Sophie Woodnicki, on a charge against the Liquor Control Act, was adjourned. The case, which is for selling liguor, will come before the court again on Janu- ary 23. FEAR DISASTER OVERTAKEN STEAMER (By Seattle, that di Associated Wash. Tan Tek ears bad overtaken the hundred miles off the Washing- ton Const, arose today as a Done on h Thr wall oF sions which gly had developed ORDER STAY OF EXECUTION NOT BINDING Attorney General Ottringer Issues Ruling Against Justice Levy NOT EFFECTIVE Judge Granted Stay to Al low Mrs. Snyder to Appear in Court (By Associated Press) Albany, N.Y, Jan, 12--Attorney General Albert Ottringer today an- nounced he had ruled that the stay of execution fm behalf of Mrs. Ruth Brown Snyder last night by Supreme Court Justice levy was not binding. The order, he said, does not act as a stay of execution. Samuel Mille, attorney for Judd Gray, today tiled formal applica tion with Federal Judge Goddard for a writ of habeas corpus to halt Gray's execution, scheduled for to- night, Judge Goddard acted upop the application but it was stated the nature of the action, whether favorable or not, would not be re- vealed until 5 p.m, This hearing is independent of action ordered by the attorney for vacantion of stay. If Justice Levy decides that there is no cause for delaying Mrs. Snyder's execution it will take place tonight, bug if he finds there is cause, he will be ask- ed by the state to vacate. New York, N.Y,, Jan. 12.--8u- preme Court Justice Aarop J. Levy today told why he granted a stay of exesution for Mrs, Ruth Snyder, "The infant (Lorraine Snyder, Mrs, Snyder's ten-year- old daughter) -- a ward of the court -- demands justice, and fn pursuit of it calls upon the in- herent power of the court," he said. "It may well be, after oral ar- gument, that there is a lack of merit in the applicaion, but no one may gainsay that the least this infant is entitled to is an op- portunity to be heard. This must of necessity occur in a very brief time and obviously neither the State nor any persons can be ag- sHisyed by the delay of a possible y." Lorraine Snyder would become the beneficiary of insurance total- ling $95,000 in the event of her mother's death and should the policies be declared legal. New York, N.Y. Jan. 12. Samuel Miller, attorney for Henry WHT: TWELVE PAGES IE, BLAZE NEAR BRANTFORD Eien [Il Committees EDUCATION BD. TO HOLD FRANCE, U. . STILL DIFFER ON WAR PACT But Countries Are Coming Closer Together in the Negotiations PARIS STUDYING France's Counter Proposal is Not Approved at Washington (Cable Service to The Times by Canadian Press) Paris, Frante, Jan. 12.--French and United States views on the proposed pact to outlaw war still differ, it was said at the Foreign Office today, but countries are coming closer together. Secretary Kellogg's latest note is still being decoded but com- ments from Ambassador Claudel which accompanied it caused offic- ials to continue optomistie. (By Associated Press) Washington, Jan, 12.--France's counter suggestion in the discus- sion of the proposed treaty for perpetual peace that the . pact condemn only 'aggressive war" does not have the approval of the United States Government and the State Department has so re- plied to Paris. A new turn in the discussions is not considered by the State De- partment to bar the way to ulti- mate negotiations of the treaty between France and the United States and ultimately with all powers, declaring against war as a weapon in international rela- tions, There have been indica- tions" that virtually all ether hases of the proposed pact are ceptable to both sides and there is confidence here that the re- maining differences will be work- ed out. ; Secretary said the underquestion- ing that the larger program provide ed fro the replacement of battieships as soon as this is possible under the Washington Arms Treaty, Annual expenditures would be about 168 mil- lions, or the total cost of approxime- ately three thousand millions. "We need eruisers," We said in answer to the question whether the nayy could be considered a first class fighting force, "That is an absolute need." He said to make it a first class navy it would be necessary to have 71 ships proposed in the 725 million dol- lar program, pointing out that this was designed to cover the needs for several years. Curtiss D, Wilbur, Secretary of he Navy, disclosed to-day before the House Naval Committees that the Naval Department has drafted [ comprehensive twenty-year program of which $726,000,000 program already announced is only a part. ST. JOHN'S LEAGUE DRAWS UP PROGRAM (By Staff Reporter) Bowmanville, Jan. 12--The Young People's League of St. John's An- glican church met last night at the home of Jack Gunn to draw mp 2 program sche" for the year 1928 The meeting / the form of a8 so- cial affair a ® after business was transacted card games were mdeiged in. The committee of the Y.RI. is formed of the following: Bernard Baldwin, chairman, and George Young, Miss Audrey Lamb, Me 2 Steadman, L. H. Cooke, Reg d- ing, H. Ormiston and Mr, and Mrs, Jick Gunn. : It was decided by the ittee that the following schedule wi be adhered to: Jan. 16--Busi and vestry meeting; Jan. 24--Port Hope Y.P.L. visitors here; Jan. 31=Osh- awa Y.PL. visiting here; Feb, 13-- St. John's Y.P.L. visits Bitby ; Feb, 2/--Literary cvening; %' ~--Missionary meeting; Mar. 26=-Op- en; April 23--Open; April DOs sible visit to Blackstock; May 14 Open; May 28--Annual dinner and banquet. A fine lunch was served after the meeting. hearing upon the stay of execu tion gramted Mrs. Ruth Sayder from 10 o'clock to-morrow morn- ing to 2 o'clock this afternoon. As he was presiding in Supreme Court, he received word that At-