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VOL. 2=NO. 60 he @shawa Daily Times [55] 1he Oshawa Daily Reformer OSHAWA, ONTARIO, MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1908 1928 PEELS 2h Sh NOTED BRITISH FLIER PLUNGES INTO SEA Recover 72 Bodies Brazil Landslide TORONTO MEN HELD IN US. FRAUD DEAL Extradition Matters Are Be. gun for Milton and Ira Janis BOGUS STOCK SOLD Alleged Swindle of $500,000 Charged--Are Held in Atlantic City (By Canadian Press) Atlantic City, N.J.,, March 11.-- Milton Janis, 30 of 10 Watkins Place, New Rochelle, N.Y, and Ira Janis, 32, a brother, of the same address, were arrested at a beach front hotel here this afternoon, charged with fleecing residents of Toronto, Ontario, out of $750,000 through a bogus stock game. They arc being held without bail pending the arrival of a United States mar- shal for a preliminary hearing before U.S. Commissiner Voorhees, after which they will be taken to Trenton lo a wait extradition proceedings on the part of the Canadian authorities, The Dominign is represented in the case of Edward H. Lockwood, of ew York, attorney for the British Consul at that. city, According to the police the brothers operated for p short time in Toronto in the Fall pf 1927 at 65 Adeclaide Street, under the title of the Toronto Security Company, When complaints began to pour into the Canadian police the fair are alleged to have decamped. November of 1927 the case was turner over to the New York office of the Pinkertons, George H. Ar- cher of the Pinkerton Agency was assigned to the case, and trailed the pair to Chicago, Miami and other American cities, finally locating them here on Friday last. According to Archer the men at one iime operated in North Jersey, but were said to have made restric- tion to alleged victims, Their plan according to Archer, was to obtain perfectly good stocks from all their victims, giving them practically worthless securities in return, Mil- ton Janis is also known under the aliases of H, W, Davis, Milton Jan- (Continued on Continusd on Jace 3) KING AWARDS AIR MEDAL TO HINKLER Australian Pilot Awarded Coveted Royal Air Force Cross By King George (Cable Service to The Times by Canadian ) Press + London, Mar, 12--King George has awarded the Royal Air Force Cross to Bert Hinkler, noted Australian pi- lot, The cross was awarded in recogni- tion of Hinkler's services to aviation by his recent brilliant flight to Aus- tralia. STEAMER LIMPS INTO TOKYO PORT BADLY BATTERED BY STORM S eto The Times b, (Cable Serv. Wi y Tokyo, Mar. 12.--After being "mis- sing" for two days, the steamer Pre- sident Lincoln, from Seattle, limped into port today after being badly bat- tered by storm¥. 40 UNDER ARREST AS PARTICIPANTS IN COMMUNIST PLOT (Cable Service to The Times by Canadian Press) Santiago, Mar. 12--Forty persons were under arrest today charged with being implicated in the Communist plot to overthrow the Government of Chile, 300 HAVE VOTED IN SELECTION OF CHAMBER DIRECTORS With more than three hun. dred ballots already ip it is ex- pected that more than eighty percent of the members will have voted by the time the polls close at 7 o'clock this evening, All of the Nomin. ating committee names that are not on the . ballott will supervise the counting, to. gether with mine scrutineers who have been appointed to do the work, The counting will be dome in Welsh's Parlors and inter. ested m are during the count. A call will be issued tomor- row morning to those clected to the directorate to meet in the Municipal Building Tues. day evening to elect officers, BLAMES WEATHER FOR SHIPWRECK Captain of the Robert Lee, Which Foundered on Rocks, Places Responsibility (By Associated Press) Plymouth, Mass, Mar, 12--Severe weather and snow in the pilot house were held responsible today by Cap- tain Robinson for the wreck of his ship, Robert E, Lee, a mile off Ma- noment Point during the blinding blizzard Friday night. With all of the hundred and fifty passengers and all but two of its crew removed in safety by rescue ships, the ship was firmly on dangerous Mary Ann rocks today while the personnel of tugs sent by the wrecking com- pany made plans for attempted sal- vage. GREEK TORPEDO BOAT HITS ROCK NO LIVES LOST (Cable Service to The Canadian Press) Athens, Mar, 12.--Greck torpedo boat, Panarmos, struck rock and foundered last night. No lives were lost, , Commander attempted to com- mit suicide by shooting. ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT ENDURANCE FLIGHT (By Associated Press) Detroit, Mar. 12--Eddie Stinson and George Haldeman will take off from the ice of Lake St. Clair in an attempt to establish a flight endur- ance record tomorrow, They were forced down in a previous attempt Friday by heavy snow storms, TURKEY ACCEPTS INVITATION TO ARMAMENT PARLEY (Cable Service to The Times by Times hy ress) Angora, Mar, 12. Turkish govern- ment announced today that it had ac- cepted the League o" Nations inyi- tation to participate in the prepara- tory conference for limitation of ar- manents, EDITOR OF TELEGRAM IS ILL AT HIS HOME (By Canadion Press) Toronto, i wis 12.--John R. Robin- son, editor for many years of the To- ronto Evening Telegram, is seriously ill at his home here with recurrence of heart trouble from which he has suffered intermittently during the | past few years. 25 Are Dead and 45 Injured as Mexican Mine is Associated Press) (By Mexico City, Mar. 12--A despatch to the El Universal irom Tezutlan tod:y said that water was rising and pS lnoding the Aurora mine, near there, where eleven men are entombed. The rescuers were separated from the sutombed miners by 3 curtain of fire Flooded and whether they were alive was not known. Eight bodies were recovered by rescue squads late last night, and vp to 11 o'clock today stood at 25 dead and 45 injured. The cause of the fire has not been ascertained yet, 200 Lives Believed Lost as Tons of Earth Wreck Homes i in City Two Rescue e Workers Labor- ing Night and Day Remov- ing Tons of Debris to Ex- tricate Bodies Buried Un- der Mass of Wreckage FEAR FURTHER CATASTROPHE Minor Earth Slides Occur and Many Families in Alarm Desert Homes as Base of Hill in Downtown Section (Cable Service to The Times by Canadian Press) Cantos, Brazil, March 12,--Eev- enty-two bodies, 49 of them adults and 23. children, have been recov- ered from the great landslide at Mount Serrat which occurred Sat- urday, An army of more than two thousand volunteers is at work removing the enormous quantity of dirt and rocks under which wreck- ed buildings lie, There are thou- sands of cubic yards to be removed, and it will require a week or more to dig under the mass of wreck- age. - Moreover, the work is handi- capped by narrow streets leading to the area overwhelmed by the slide which crashed down, burying, it is feared, at least two hundred - | persons, The possibility of further catas- trophies is causing anxiety, for mi- nor slides have occurred apd many families in alarm, have deserted their homes located at the base of the big hill in the downtown sec- tion of the city, -- Santos, Brazil, Mar, -- Gaping crachs in the side of Mount Serrat, towering in the centre of this strick- en city today threatened a new dis- aster as fifteen hundred volunteers dug .teadily into the ruins of Satur- day's Jandslide. The known dead stood at 39 and it was fearcd that the ponderous mass of earth crash- ing down upon the sleeping city had crushed out two hundred lives, Women and children stood around the scene, remnants of the families shattered by the catastrophe, They hop=d that out of the mass of earth, crumbled walls and rocks, rescue workers would dig forth friends or relatives still alive. From the debris was taken a woman who had been buried in a room with the body of her husband for twenty-five hours, Other injured persons who had lived through the horrible disaster were brought forth crushed and multilated spurring rescue workers on to fresh efforts, The entire city responded to aid the (Continued on page 3) TWO BRITISHERS ARE WOUNDED WHEN FIRED UPON FROM VILLAGE 12, (By Canadian Press) Hong Kong, Mar, 12--Two British blue jackets from the gunboat Robin were wounded, one fatally, when fired upon by the militia of a river village, $75,000 LOSS BY FIRE IN CANORA, SASK. (By Canadian Press) Canora, Sask, Mar. 12.--Fire swept through two business places here during the week-end, causing aggre- gate losses of $75,000. FALL WHEAT SUFFERS FROM COLD WEATHER (By Staff Reporter) Whitby, Mar. 12. -- This winter has been severe from the standpoint of fall wheat to the opinion of farmers in the district, Al though there has mot been much extreme weather contin- uous thaws alternating be- tween cold spells have kept the fields bare of snow so that the tender shoots of wheat were often exposed to frosts, It is feared that much of mext season's crop bas been de- stroyed in this way, but this cannot be definitely ascer- tained until the grain shows further development, At any rate in many ficlds the yield per acreage will mot be as heayy as under normal cir- cumstances. {NO CLUE FOUN 10 DEATH GAR Police Search for Driver of Car That Killed Father and Child (By Canadian Press) St. Catharines, Mar, 12.--Pro- vincial, urban and rural police in the Niagara district today carried out without success a systematic search of garages for the car with a broken windshield, the only clue to the automobile that ran down and killed Willlam Hay and his young daughter near Stamford last night. Up to early this after. noon no such car had been located and no person had volunteered any information to the authori- ties, that would lead to the iden- tity of the driver of the car that ran them down while they were returning from church, and con- tinued without even checking speed, JUDGE E GIVES A UNIQUE DECISION (By Associated Press) Wilmington, Del.,, March 12.-- Joseph Bullock was today sentenc- ed by Judge Hastings to spend the next four week-ends. in Newcastle County workhouse for committing a breach of the peace in his home, Charges were preferred by his wife, Between week-ends he will con- tinue at the regular employment, but will be in the workhouse from one o'clock Saturday afternoon un- til seven o'clock Saturday morning, COUNSEL INSISTS COSTS SECURITY Will Obtain Order for Sir A. Currie to Advance Se- curity for Action (By Canadian Press) Cobourg, March 12.--IF'rank Re- gan, counsel for the Port Hope Guide and W. T. R, Preston, de- fendants in the libel suit, brought hy General Sir Arthur Currie, Mon- treal, has announced that he will move either today or tomorrow he- fore County Judge O'Connor, Lind- say, for an order directing Sir Ar- thur to advance security for costs of his action. Sir Arthur claims fifty thousand dollars damages for alleged libel- ous statements in an article Mr, Preston published in the Guide, VESSEL FOUNDERS BUT SOON PROCEEDS (Cable Service to The Times by Canadian Press) Deal, Eng., Mar, 12.--The Bel- gian Steamship Kabolo, bound from Mombassa from her home port Antwerp, went aground in a blizzard early today near Rye, Kent, but got off without assis- tance several hours later, The vessel proceeded on her ; voyage apparently undamaged, Train Crew Aids in Saving Life (By Canadian Press) Toronto, March 12.--A freight train crew played a big part last night in help- ing doctors and nurses save the life of Roy Plowright, Huntsville, five, who was rushed from that town to .Orillia Hospital in a state of coma from acute appendici- tis, The doctor decided that an operation was the only chance to save the boy, and the Canadian National Rail- ways gave permission for the boy to be carried in the caboose of the regular fast Sunday freight, The boy reached the hos- pital and was immediately operated on, the operation proving successful, FLU EPIDEMIC IN JAPAN DECREASES Deaths Are Cut to 50 Per Day--Mostly Among Infants (Cable Service to Th: Times by Canadian Press) Tokyo, Mar. 12--The influenza epidemic which has struck Japan, causing the death of thousands in- cluding the six months old daughter of the Emperor, apparently is some- what decreasing on the basis of fig- ures made public by the Metropoli- tan police. Deaths now range around fifty a day, including bronchitis and pneu- monia which are attributed to influ- enza, Mos* fants, The official police figures show in- fluenza deaths from November 1 last year, to March 8 this year at 5490, MAY WITHDRAW CHARGE OF MURDER oi the deatls are among ins March 11--=Mrs, Eleanor Howe, of Appin, who has been under arrest since New Year's | eve, charged with murdering her | three-and-a-hali-year-old. imbecile | daughter, will not face a jury. It was stated semi-officially here today that Crown Attorney A, M. Judd, who conferred with the At- torney-General in Toronto last Tues- day, will be instructed within the coming week to have Mrs, Howe committed for treatment to the provincial hospital at Whitby, Ont, Mrs. Howe's condition physically and mentally is said to be quite good now and some concern is felt as 10 her future, the belief being held that after a comparatively short further period of care she would be in a quite normal sta state, FLIGHT CONTINUES (Cable London, Out, Service to The Times by Canadian Press) Marseilles, Mar, 12.--Lady Mary Bailey, who arrived here in a moth | plane from Paris yesterday on her flight to Capetown, Africa, hopped | off today for Pisa, Italy, (€able Service to The London, Mar. 12--Winter storms and cold gripped much of Europe to- day and their return snuffed out the lives of two fliers and defeated an English girl in her third attempt to swim the straits of Gibraltar. The French Paris-London plane found the storm too severe to face and landed its passengers at Calais, Friday. Yes- Winter Storm Grips Europe Two French Pilots Drowned Times by Canadian Press) terday, despite uncertain weather, the pilot and mechanic attempted to con- tinue the flight. The storm was too strong and the plane plunged into the sea, drowning them. After making a gallant struggle Miss Mercedes Gleitz, London typ- ist, was taken from the sea after swimming more than seven hours a- cross the strait of Gibraltar. no customers were Tested 1ear Gas in Bank; Clerks Make Hurried Escape In front of a local banking institution about five o'clock Saturday afternoon, confusion reigned. noticed clerks and tellers on the street, down their cheeks, looking--well, And bad their manager died suddenly? No, that was not the cause of the aiscomfort. Someone had "accidentally test- ed" the tear gas apparatus. Yes, it worked. 2 It worked so well, in fact, that for quite a few minutes no one could enter the premises. However, in due course the air cleared, and the work of balancing the books proceeded. Fortunately the institution had been closed to business, and inconvenienced by the accidental charge of this very effective burglar remover. One might have with tears streaming not too cheerful. dis- 10 Cents a Week; 2 Cents a Copy. Flight Lieutenant S. M. Kin. kead Was Member of Vic. torious Schneider Cup Team Last Year -- Was Trying for Speed Record MADE FLIGHT AFTER STORM Had Been Making Regular Test Flights Up Until Sat. urday, and Was Convince. ed That New Record Was Obtainable ---- (Cable Service to The Times by Canadian Press) Southampton, Eng, Mar. 12, Flight Lieut, S. M, Kinkead, noted British speed pilot, flying at terrific speed today dived into the sea leay- ing no trace while attempting to break the world speed record, Lieutenant Kinkead, who was a member of the victorious British Schneider Cup team last year, was piloting the same type of machine with which flight Licut. Webster won the Schneider Trophy with an average of 281.488 miles per hour. Today's attempt, which was part of a long planned effort to astablish a world speed mark, was made soon after a snowstorm. Kinkead had made his first flight in the Royal Air Force der plane" Saturday and then had his second flight wvesterday, after whicii he declared he was convinced he would make more than three hun- dred miles an hour. The machine he used today was a super marine Na- pier 8-5, During the Schneider cup races, had made a speed of 291 miles an hour, the highest rate attained over one lap in the race, but was forced trial "won- ie to withdraw after completing the third lap. The record which the British air- men sought to shatter was that es- tablished shortly after the Schneider | Cup races by Major Mario De Bai- | nardi, Italian speed ace, who flew at 296.94 miles per hour, | | | | NEW "FIREPROOF" | CLOTHING IS NOT | FOUND HEAT PROOF | i Service to The Canadian Press) Vicennes, France, Mar, 12, -- A young woman aviatrix discovered new "fire proof" clothing for fliers. She donned the suit, sprinkled alco- hol over it and struck a match, The combination may have been fireproof but it didn't keep the heat out and within thirty seconds she screamed for help. Soldiers beat out the flames. STEAMER AGROUND OFF ENGLISH COAST -- Service to The Times by Canadian Press) Deal, Eng, Mar. 12--A salvage ship left here today to go to the aid of a large steamer which went ashore near Rye Kent, last night. The name of the ship is unknown. STORM BLOWS OFF PORTION OF ROOF Trent River, March 11, -- There has not been any reports of serious damage caused by the blizzard of Sunday. George Spencer had a small part of the roof of his barn blown off, and part of the garage formerly owned by T. J. Horkins was blown down. The roads are drifted high in many places, but the school children manage to go to and from school by walking on top of the snow banks as they are packed down 80 hard. Mr. W. C. Inkster is operating his grinding mill, with business quite brisk. WOMAN PROPOSED AS PRESIDENT BY COMMUNIST PARTY (Cable Service to The Times by Canadian Press) Buenos Aires, Mar. 12--For the first time in the history of Argentina, a woman has been designated for the presidency. Angelica Mendosa has been named by the Communists, (Cable Times by | (Cable WEATHER - Fresh winds, mild, occasional rain tonight and Tuesdey. TEN PAGES RAMANA Famous Speed Aviator Dives Into Atlantic and Leaves No Trace ARCTIC WEATHER GRIPS BRITAIN A SECOND TIME (Cable Service To The Times By Canadian Press) London, Mar, 12.--Great Britain is experiencing an other spell of Arctic weather and for the second time this winter a number of villages in the southern section have been cut off from the outside world by smowdrifts, Parts of Essex are under fifteen feet of snow. CLUE FAILS FOR MISSING GIRL Nothing Further Heard from Conductor Who Obtained Information (By Associated Press) New York, Mar, 12, -- The new account of the disappearance of Miss YFrances St. John Smith, missing Smith College girl, today apparently had dwindled into an- other futile clue, The girl's family said they had heard nothing from J. Wilkinson, Canadian Pacific Railway conduc- tor who said at Montreal Saturday he was certain the girl is in Que bec Convent, and that he would take any responsible persons to her. Up to noon today no word had come from Wilkinson to the Smith family. REQUESTS PLANE FOR RELIEF WORK 600 Residents of Detour, Mich., Isolated Since Feb- ruary 29 (By Associated Press) Sault St. Marie, Mich., March 12. --A request that a transport aero- plane be furnished immediately to carry food and mail to six hundred residents of Detour, isolated for twelve days because of heavy snow- storms and reported to be in des- perate circumstances, was sent to- day to the post office department by Post Master Snell. The village, sixty miles south of the Saulte, has been cut off from all sources of food supply since February 29, all roads being bloek- ed by snow. Telephone reports from the snow- bound community today were that its fresh meat and flour supply was exhausted, WELL KNOWN DIVINE IS CALLED BY DEATH London, March 11. -- Rt. Rev. Francis James Chavasse, former Bishop of Liverpool, died bere to- day, aged 81 years. Dr, Chavasse was educated at Oxford and - held honorary de- grees from Cambridge University and the University of Liverpool. He was Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, prior to his appointment as Bishop of Liverpool in 1900. He retired in 1923, FISHER'S MARRIAGE LEGAL New York, March 11--The legality of marriages at sea was upheld in a} decision of the appellate division of the State Supreme Court. The de- cision was handed down in the case of Harry C. ("Bud") Fisher, car- toonist, who had contended that his marriage by Commodore Herbert Hartley to the former Comtesse De Beaumont aboard the Leviathan for- ty miles at sea on October 24, 1924, was illegal. Fisher said Hartley was without authority to perform a mar- riage, and he was prohibited from remarrying by a 'divorce decree ob- tained by a former wife. Fisher was directed to pay his wife $400 a week temporary alimony, APPEAL OF THEFT CASE DISMISSED James Bell's Conviction is Upheld in Appellate Court THEFT OF HIDES Claimed Attorney Was Not Permitted to Put in Im- portant Evidence (Special To The Times) Toronto, March 12.--The appeal of James Bell, convicted in Oshawa on February 24 of theft of hides from the slaughter house of Philip Conlin, is before the supreme court at Osgoode Hall today. Bell's attorney claims that he was not permitted to put in ime portant evidence and that no ate tention had been paid to his ob. jeclons to certain evidence of the Crown, The Crown alleges that on the night of February 8 Bell in coms pany with John Conlin, Bell's guest, drove to the slaughter house, stole six hides which they took next morning to Toronto and sold to a livery man named Peat. Evidence put in by the Crown in Oshawa {police court, the defence claim, is inadequate and uncorroborated, Conlin swore that Bell was an accomplice and Peat alleged that he had seen the two in Toronto on the morning of the 9th. He could not swear to having seen any hides on that morning but did see some jin Conlin's possession several davs later, Provincial officers testified that they had found traces of flesh on Bell's car, Bell's defence is that he was home on the night of February ¥, but that he had driven to Toronto with his wife and little girl the following morning, meeting Cone lin at the livery table at which place he was seen hy Peat, Guests of Bell eorroborated the evidence of him and his wife to this effect, He denies all knowledge of the theft, The presence of flesh in the car he explains by saying that -he had delivered some pork to his daughter in Cedardale, A strong point for Bell, the supreme court admits, Is that the hides in being handled would have the hair out and that therefore mo flesh could get into the ear. Conlin pleaded gullty and was convicted. Neither i as yet sen» tenced. The court decided that there was sufficient evidence to warrant s conviction and the appeal was dis. missed. ------------ CANADIAN ENTRANT IN MARATHON HURT Walter Ricketts of Ontario Knocked By Hit-and-Run Motorist ; (By Associated Press) Danby, Calif., Mar. 12.--Walter Ricketts, Southampton, Ont., con- testant in the Pyle trans-continen- tal marathon, who was run down Friday by a hit-and-run motorist, believed to have been intoxicated, has been removed to Los Angeles with seven fractured ribs. GENERAL HEALTH BILL DRAWS NO COMMENT (By Canadian Press) Toronto, March 12. -- Officials administering mental hospitals of Ontario and members of the Gov» ernment generally refuse to come ment officially on the adoption by Alberta of a plan of sexual sterils ization of the mentally unfit. A similar bill was introduced in the Ontario Legislature as far back as 1910 by Hom. Dr. Forbes Godfery, now Minister of Health, but then a private member, but it was withdrawn under Goverm- ment pressure. Introduces For ual Franchise omen in England at 21 By Canadian Press) ( London, March 12.--An event which the younger women of Great Britain have been awaiting with the greatest interest occurred today when Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Home Secretary, introduced in thé House of Commons equal franchise measure which gives the vote to women at the age of 21 years, in- stead of thirty as at present.