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"All the News While It Is News" e Oshawa Dail Succeeding The Oshawa Daily Reformer y Times A Growing Newspaper in a Growing City VOL. 4_NO. 86 Two Prisoners Escape Sudbury --Two inmates of Bur- wash Industrial Farm, while engaged at roadwork yesterday, escaped from custody and 'have not since been seen. Visit Cancelled London --Owing to the delicacy of the religious situation in Jerusalem the proposed visit of the Archbishop' of RA Hh to the Holy City has been cancelled. 5 Trotsky Not Wanted : Berlin --The Cabinet today decided to refuse the request of Leon Trot- sky, former Soviet leader, and now in exile in Turkey, for admission to pany. Germany, ' oeiie Fire At Iroquois Iroquois.~The. fire brigade was called out this morning and quickly extinguished a brush fire on the pre- mises of Garry Timleck at Pont-Iro- 0is, quois, * + = Grant Discontinue | Ottawa.--Senator Dandurand told Senator Willoughby in the senate that the federal government had de- cided not to renew the grants to ' provinces for lechnical education, Trustees Named Kingston.--Hon. W. F. Nickle, K.C., Kingston; and Dr. T. H. Farrell, Uti- ca, N.Y., have been re-elected by the members of the Queen's University Council to serve on the Board of Trustees for a term of three years. To Restore Church Toronto~The Great Chapter, the goverhing body of the Cathedral of St. Alban the Martyr, damaged by fire early this week, at a meeting held last night decided to go ahead with the work of Jestoration. More Cancer Deaths London.--Deaths from cancer in the '12 months ending March 31 were the highest in number yet recorded be- + ing 54,000 including 25,000 males and 20000 females. Deaths from all cau- ses were 484,000. * + 4 Woman Driver Jailed Brantford. --The first woman auto driver convicted here of being drunk while driving, Margarette Collenette, of Delhi, this morning was given 7 days in jail without the option of a fine. "iain Sailor Fs Killed st. John's Nfid.,--Daniel Kane, an English sailor, aboard the steamer - Nova Scotia, was. killed today when he fell from aloft, said a message re- ceived from the steamer, which is bound fry alifax to Liverpool via St, John's Re Voluntary Clergy London.~The Church. of England is at last about to consider seriously the ordination of "voluntary cleigy, who, licensed 'to officiate a religious gervice and even to celebrate holy communion, will follow their ordin- pry secular ayocations. Killed By Freight Train Brantford. --Word was received to- day by Fred Houlding, Tutela Heights, of the death at Saskatoon of his brother, G. H. Houlding, a C.N.R. switchman, who was instantly killed when he fell between two freight cars in the Nutana yards. Situation Alarming Port Credit.--Encroachment of the shoreline at Port Credit by the wind-washed waters of Lake Ontario is causing anxiety to local residents and with prospects of further heavy rainfall the situation is assuming an alarming aspect. . British M.P. To Retire : London.--Right Hon. Sir Leslie Scott, for the past eighteen years Conservative member of the House of Commons for the Exchange Divi- sion of Liverpool, will not seek re- election at the coming general elec- tions because of failing health. Homes Flooded Windsor. --Flood waters at the Iow- er end of Lake St. Clair, which, at their height surrounded some 50 hou- ses along the lake front, at one place swept up to Riverside drive, were receding last night after reaching a level fully five feet above normal ear- iv yesterday morning, Another Woman Candidate Liverpool, England--One of the most interesting of the many women candidates in the coming general el- ection is Miss Margaret Beavan, for- mer Lord Mayor of Liverpool, who today accepted the invitation to be- come Conservative candidate in the Everton division of this city. Urge Penny Pos ne Tondon.--The asociated British chambers -of commerce meeting here yesterday passed a resolution irging that the surplus now obtainad from postal services fully justified the gov- ernment in reducing letter postage 13 2 cents, an object being sought by the business community generally. * WEATHER The disturbance which was ov- lowa rday morning is now tenired Y Northern Michigan with ished tensity, and ve appears to moving y | d off the middle At- antic Coast, while high pressure extends from Nova Scotia north- ward to Hudsons Straits. Rain or snow have fallen in Ontario and Western Quebec, elsewhere the weather has been fair. Forecasts: Lower Lakes and Georgian Bay: Moderate to fresh winds; unsettled with local show- ers. Saturday--Westerly winds; partly cloudy; not much change in temperature, Published at Oshaw: h ores fy Fru Every " ' OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1929 10 Cents a Week; 3 Cents a Copy. SIXTEEN PAGES r Party of 1€0 Boys of Young Acstralia League Are Guests of General Motors of Canada at Luncheon and During the Afier- noon ON GOOD WILE TOUR OF THIS CONTINENT Were Welcomed at Station by Large Party of Citi- zens--Plan to Hold Brief Memorial Service at Ceno- taph Before Leaving City The party of 160 boys of the Young Alistralia League arrived at 1.30 this afternoon by a special CN.R. train. They were welcomed at the station by officials of General Motors of Canada, Limited, Mayor T. B. Mit- chell and representatives of the ser- vice clubs and, Chamber of Commerce. A fleet of forty cars was at the station to meet the boys, the handling of this traffic being under the per- sonal direction of Chief of Police, O. D. Friend. The cars lined up facing north on Simcoe street just south of Station street, facing east on the south side of Station street and wes on the north side to Station street, 'along the station platform. This proved, a most expeditious method of allowing the cars at the platform io move off as soon as they had secured their load and allow other gars to move up to take their place, The boys were taken on a short tour of fhe city, on their way to the G.M.C. auditorium: They went from the station.aig.Simege street to Al- bany street to Prospect street wh they passed the Grinell Company's plant, formerly the Ontario Malleable Iron Company), then up ' Prospect street to Fisher street, Albert street, Bruce street, where they saw the plants of Fittings, Limited, and the Oriental Textiles, Ritson road, where they went past several General Mo- tors plants and the office building, and saw the Central Spring Comp- any's factory. Alice street to Divi- sion street, down Division street past other General Motors plants to Wil- liam street, across William to Mary street and then down Mary to the General Motors auditorium, Guests At Luncheon At the auditorium lunchéon was served, the boys being the guests of General Motors of Canada, Limited. General Motors also entertained at (Continued on' Page 10) ENGLISH COMPAN SEEKS POWER IN NORTH MANITOBA Is Negotiating for Right to Develop the White Mud Falls The Pas, Man., April 12. -- The Northern Mail carries the following news story: '""A British company headed by Sir prominent English financier, is the organization negotiating with tue Manitoba government for a priority permit for development of White Mud Falls on the Nelson River in Northern Manitoba, it is learned here. " "Representatives of the com- pany have been quietly securing data recently in the North Country regarding the amount of power available and the amount that can be sold in Northern Manitoba, De- velopment of the Falls would méan an outlay of about $50,000,000, ac- cording to experts, and the amount of power available without dam- ming the Nelson River is approxi- mately 300,000 horsepower. Reginald Brade, | Australian Boys Arrive In This City at Noon For a Brief Visit Here LAKE SAILORS ARE KEEN FOR OPENING Thirty-five Vessels, With Steam Up, Ready at Fort William ICE BREAKER BUSY St. Mary's River is Already Reported to be Cleared of Ice (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Fort William, April 12---With steam 'up and their officers and men fretting impatiently, 35 grain boats in Port Erie are awaiting the com- mand that will send them ploughing through the broken ice of Thunder Bay, racing eastward with "millions of bushels of Western Canada's grain Veteran lake mariners watched the progress of a tiny speck away out in the bay, creeping along with irritat- ing slowness. It was the ice-breaking tug James Whalen, which for several days has bucked the ice of Thunder Bay, loosening it so that when fay- orable winds blow off shore it will move out into the open lake. Immediately that the winds shift the big ice-fields wedged tight in the bay, conditions will be favorable for a start. Already, and so soon that lake-head navigators are surprised, word has been received that the St. Mary's River is open at Whitefish. dt. is, considered. that when Whitefish is clear of ice, navigation is declared open. : In view of the unexpected report from the east, however, navigators have made no announcement as to the actual start of navigation here, SIX KILLED INDAM BREAK | Tragedy When Dam Lansing, Michigan, Collapsed Today (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Lansing, Mich, April 12--Six men were believed to have been kill- edin a coffer dam collapse at the South Logan Street viaduct this morning. Eight men were working about 30 feet under the level of the river on the footings of the viaduct on the south side of the river when without warning there was a crash and the workers were buried under an aval- anche of crashing timbers and water. SHIPPING FLEET HELD UP AT S00 (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., April 12. --Contrary to expectations the steamers Ace and King of the Poker fleet, did not get away from Duluth yesterday as expected, ac- cording to a statement this moru- ing by Mercus Hazen of hte Michi- gan Soo, vice-president of the company. The vessels were held up by reported rough weather on Lake Superior and are awaiting better conditions before venturing on their first trip of the season. The steamer S. H. Robbins of the Wilson Company has left God- erich for Toledo for coal and will proceed immediately to the Soo when she has taken on a cargo. at She may be the first vessel to reach the canals. Toronto, April 12, -- Boasting that he had been haled into court and fined 75 cents when he was a boy, Hon. Dr. Forbes Godfrey, provincial minister of health, told the St. Barnabas' fathers and sons banquet last night that he was proud of his childish misdemeanor. * "But that's nothing," he added. "Look at 'Fergy'; he was fined $4.71 in his youth, has the recveipt framed and in his library, and now he's prime minister of Ontario." Dr. Godfrey explained there was no harm in a little "youthful gump- Ferguson and Dr. Godfrey Were Not Handicapped by Police Court Fines direction to turn it to some good. "You just take dads' advice," he told the boys, "and it'll save you a lot of trouble--thgt's my experi- ence." . Dr, Godfrey deplored thé action of the Toronto board of education in obstructing the teaching of box- ing in the schools. Boxing makes boys manly, he thought. "I like a manly boy, and detest a bully or a coward," he said provoking ap- plause as added that "boxing has been good enough for Eton 'tion'? All "it needed was proper and Oxford and the British em- pire." ' * OF NAVIGATION Group Funerals For Victims of Arkansas Storm (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Little Rock, Ark., April 12.-- Three group funerals of victims of the tornado which on Wednesday swept sections of North Arkansas taking a toll of life which stood at 50, today, were to be held this af- ternoon at Guion and Swifton, two villages which bore the brunt of the storm. Two small rural cemteries near Swifton each are to receive the bodies of 11 vicums, while at Guion, six more victims of the storm are to be buried. RIGHTS T0 ANTARCTIC IN DISPUTE Captain Byrd's Expedition Awakens Controversy as to Ownership (By Francis G. Aldham, Canadian Press Staff Correspondent) Washington, D.C, April 12.~Terri- torial jurisdiction over the Antarctic may become' the centre of an inter- national conference, Another govern- ment today was added to the list which is receiving reports from their representatives in Washington. The French embassy transmitted a mem- orandum to Paris setting forth- the developments to date. Commander Byrd is in the Antarctic en route to a flight across the South Pole. He has claimed big territories in the name of the United States. Some of these have been claimed by other governments previously. Wilkes' Land was claimed by Great Britain long ago, and was un. der the mandate of Australia in 1926, The British have the greatest claims to Antarctic territory. France claims the strip below Madagascar by right of discovery nearly' a century ago. United States explorers at the same time penetrated into several areas mn the extreme south and American claims have not been officially de- (Continued on Page 10) SEEKING CAUSE OF EXPLESION DETROIT BUILDING One Man Killed, One Is Missing and Three Injured Detroit, April 12.--While mem- bers of 16 fire fighting units searched through tons of debris, police today sought to determine the cause of an explosion wnich late yesterday demolished a four storey building on East Jefferson avenue, between Randolph and Bates street, damaged two adjac- ent structures and caused the death of at least one man. Three persons were injured and one is missing. The blast occur- red at 6.23 p.m., in a building us- ed on the ground floor as a paint and varnish warehouse. Within a few seconds fire broke out in the two adjoinng buildings. The dead man who had not been identified early today, was blown into the street as he passed the building. Unusual Sap Run Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., April 12-- Henry Young, who has been making maple syrup at Jocelyn on St. Jos- eph Island, reports the unusual run of 24 barrels of sap from 400 trees in 24 hours. MURDER HEARING IS, AGAIN ADJOURNED (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) St. Thomas, April 12.--Prelimin- ary hearing of charge against Sher- if Rakip, Albanian chef, of murder- ing Alfred N. Westaway during a brawl in the cafe kitchen Easter Sunday, was further enlargea for a week by Acting Magistrate San- ders today at the request of ac- cused's counsel, who demands a copy of the evidence taken at the inquest. Japanese Prince and Princess Betrothed {By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Tokyo, April 12--The betrothal of Prince Takamatsu, brother of Em- peror Hirchito, and Princess Kikuko Tokugawa was formally announced today with sanction of the Emperor. 'The wedding will take place in the spring" of 1930. RESIDENTS OF BOWMANVILE ARE SUMMONED CHARGED WITH STEAL- ING GOODS FROM WRECKED TRAIN Carload of Automobiles Raided -- Will Appear in Court on Tuesday (Special to The Times) Bowmanville, April 12.--A sen- sation has been created 'in this community by the issuing ef sum- monses to eighteen residents of the town, who have been summon- ed to appear in the police court here on Tuesday, April 16, to ans. wer to charges of stealing and re- celving stolen goods, the articles in question having been removed from the wrecked freight train which was derailed near here on Saturday morning last, when Engineer John Kennedy lost his life. One of the wrecked freight cars was loaded with automobiles pack- ed in crates, and it is alleged that the persons involved broke open these crates and removed a large number of automobile aceessories, some of the cars being completely stripped of their removable parts. The investigation department of the Canadian Pacific: Railway at Toronto, has been conducting the inquiry into the disappearance of these articles, and has laid the charges. A large portion of the stolen goods has been recovered, consisting of motor horns, pumps, bumpers and even headlights, and these are now piled up in the po- lice office at Bowmanville, All of the persons involved are charged with stealing, while a num- ber of them face the double charge of stealing .and receiving stolen goods: The 'cases will be heard in the Bowmanville police 'court on Tuesday of next week. VENGEANCE REACHES OUT IN MEXICO Former Priest Killed as Re- venge for Recent Executions CONVENTS RAIDED Captured Rebel General Says Loyal Troops Had Nar- row Escape (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Mexico City, April 12.--Guada~ lajara despatches to the Excellsior today said the hands of vengeance had reached out and taken the life of an alleged former priest named Vega, evening the score for his re cent execution of Victoriano Ram- rez, alias "El Catorce' co-leader of a band of Jalisco insurgents, Vega and "El Catorce" were charged by government officials with having been leaders of the band which on April 20, 1927, burned a Guadalajara-Mexico City passenger train, killing 54 men, women and children. The bandits are said to have locked the doors of the coaches, set them afire ana shot those who tried to escape through the windows, Vega, Excelsior's story said, was shot dead Wednesday night at Ha- cienda Guadalupe near the town of Arandas, Jalisco, by a cousin of El Catorce. The assassin emptied hig pistol into Veta's breast under cover of darkness and then escap- ed by horseback amid a hail of bul- lets from the dead man's followers, said to number more than a hun- dred. 5 . Mexico City, April 12,--Agents of the department of the Interior conducted a widespread series of raids on places of a religious char- acter during - the last 24 hours, making a number of arrests and closing the buildings. Two convents were raided. Ten Mexican nuns found in one were released after being warned they were acting in violation of the con- (Continued on Page 10) Failed to Agree On Reparations (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Paris, April 12, -- The Repara- tions experts of the Allied powers failed to reach a definite agree- ment concerning figures to be sub- mitted to Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, the German delegate, during this morning's session and it was nec- essary to call another meeting for this afteroon. Urges Attention To Marketing (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) London, April 12, -- Prince George, who entered upon his new duties at the foreign office re- cently, followed the example of his three brothers and his great-uncle, the Duke of Connaught, in attend- ing last night the annual banquet of the Associated British Chambers of Commerce. Like the Prince of Wales, at a Mansion house banquet the other week but in rather more general and guarded sentences, Prince George suggested British manufacturers needed to look to their marketing organizations, CHINESE ASK JAP TROOPS 70 REMAIN Afraid of Consequences If Withdrawal Is Made too Soon (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Tokyo, April 12--Nationalist China anxious for the last ycar for Jap- anese soldiers to be withdrawn from Shantung, now wishes that the eva- cuation be neither too complete and nor take place too soon. Although confident of its ability to protect Japanese lives and property in the Shantung railway zone be- tween Tsinan and Tsingchow after the withdrawal of the Japanese troops, the Nanking government i not so sure about other localities, where the returned war lord, ng Tsung, Chang, is in control. Therefore, the informatign here is Nanking is attempting. to "persuade Tokyo to adopt one of three cours <€s, to postpone evacuation of their troops, concentrate the - Japanese residents of Shantung in a safety zone, or withdraw them temporarily to Tsingtao. The Japanese government, how- ever was insisted that Nanking up- hold its pledges of protection to the Japanese lives and property. WONDERING WHY CANADA 1S NOT SHIPPING GOLD New York Journal Thinks Banks Have Placed Em- bargo on Gold Export (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) New York, April 12.--The -con- tinued absence of gold shipments from Canada to this country, des- pite the fact that the Canadian dollar sells persistently below the gold export point, {is attracting a great deal of attention here, says the Journal of Commerce today. Canada has shipped $65,000,000 to this country, chiefly in Decem- ber and January, but these exports of gold failed to prevent the con- tinued drop in the Canadian cur- rency resulting from the heavy placement of short term funds by Canadians on the New York call market. Canada has no central bank, but practically all banks there are comprised within the seven great banks, having thousands of branches. The failure of gold to arrive from Canada is interpreted as reflecting an informal embargo on gold shipments which these banks have informally agreed upon, expecting that the crisis will blow over with/ the summer season and the heavy expenditure of tour- ists in Canada at that time. CHICAGO BANDITS SECURE $10.000 (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Chicago, April 12.--Two bandits with sawed off shot guns held up the employees of the Lansing sate bank today, shielded themselves from the guns of the bank guards by kidnapping the cashier, and escaped with two bags containing an estimated $10,000 cash. A con- federate awaited in an automobile outside to aid the getaway. Great Interest in Re-opening of Inquest Sault Ste. Marie, April 12--A great interest is being taken in the new inquest, which opens tonight, into the death of Mrs. Henrietta Bell, who was run down by a hit and run motorist a year and a half ago. Some forty witnesses have been sub- ponaed,; including one man who was G AUSTRALIAN FLIERS FOUND "wo of Rescue Aviators, However, Now Lost in Wilds | Prince George Southern CrossCrew Safe and Well, and Rescue Ship Starts TORONTO FACTIONS STILL DISCUSS BUS PURCHASES T.T.C. Manager, However, is Satisfied with the Agreement MAYOR ALSO PLEASED Status of the Collacutt Bus Lines Satisfactory to D. W. Harvey Toronto, April 12.--Rumblings of the fight in the Board of Con- trol and Council over the purchase of bus routes are still being heard around the City Hall. No effort is being spared, on the one hand, to minimize the value and impo=iance of the permits se- cured, and on the other that the action of Council saved important "franchises" falling into the hands of the big interests, Hard on the heels of the report that the Holt interests were seek+ ing the lines comes a denial from Sir Herbert. Mayor McBride, in an interview yesterday, said that '"'the American electric ring made an at- tempt to get in the thin edge of the wedge to wreck the transports= tiont 'public ownership 'undertak- i " "We have spent $50,000,000 on the Street Railway System," said the Mayor, "and we are pot going to allow this great investment to be jeopardized by private inter- ests." Collacutt Line Privileges The Mayor said that through bus (Continued on Page 10) LIBRARY IS DESTROYED Valuable Volumes Are Burned in Fire at St. Mary's (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Stratford, April 12--Between $7,000 and $10,000 damage was caused by fire which broke out in the Public Library at St. Marys early today. Many valuable volumes, reference books, paintings, etchings and his- tories were destroyed, The blaze started in the furance room, from an undetermined origin. The dam- age to the building' proper, which has been closed temporarily, is esti- mated at $2,000, almost fully cover- ed by insurance. : EARTHQUAKE IS ~ CAUSE OF PANIC (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Bologna, Italy, April 12--For the third successive morning residents of this city were awakened and brought outdoors into streets and public squares by earth tremors. A fairly strong shock felt at 1.36 a.m, The squares today were filled with crowds of frightened people,' many of whom, nervous from the shocks, stayed up all night and kept the lights burning so as not to be caught unawares by a recurrence. A second shock was felt at 620 am, today. Thus far little property ---- b Fliers Who Have Been Miss- ing for Two Weeks in the Wilds of Australia Have Been Found by One of the Searching Aeroplanes FOOD DROPPED TO STRANDED AVIATORS One of the Rescue Planes Is Now Missing in a Lonely Section of the Northern Territory of Australia, and New Search for it Has Been Started (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Broome, Western Australia, April 12.--A steamer will leave here this afternoon for the mouth of the Glenelg River to pick up the stranded Southern Cross' flyers, sighted there by the aeroplane Canberra today, It is about 250 miles distant by sea. 1 Definitely Located Sydney, N.S.W., April 12.--Af- ter being lost twelve days in one of the wildest and most inhospit- able regions of the world, Cap- tain Charles Kingsford-Smith and his three companions of the aero- plane Southern Cross were located today by the plane Canberra, the largest of several machines search- ing for them. Brief messages from the Cans berra to a radio receiving station at Darwin, Northern Territory, re Tated the sighting of the missing plane, which once made the. re- markable flight from California to LAustralia. The Canberra said the four fliers appeared safe and well, Food was dropped to them, suf- ficient to satisfy a want which it was feared had become acute. Captan Holden, piloting the Canberra, gave the plane's loca- tio nas on a mud flat about 30 miles south from Port George mis- sion station, .which is located on the Prince Regent River about 130 miles east of Derby, This location would indicate that when Captain Kingsford Smith sent the message just before he made his forced landing nearly two weeks ago that he was "about 100 miles east of Wyndham" he was instead hune dreds of miles off the path from Sydney to Wyndham, a lap whica (Continued on Page 10), # OVER THOUSAND * EXECUTED WITHIN A WEEK IN CHINA Canton Authorities Take Stern Action to Stamp Out Communism | 3 (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Canton, China, April 12.--More than a thousand alleged radical agitators are estimated to have been executed by machine guns during the past week in a campaign by the Canton authorities to stamp out radicalism here. Accused of instigating Commun- ist agitation, 30 students of the Nationalist Sun Yat Sen University were arrested, court martialed and shot. The Sun Yat Sen University, a co-educational institution, has long been declared a hot bed of radicalism by the local authorities. Girl Robs Bank Denver, Col.--Threatening to blow up the bank with a package she said contained nitro-glycerine, a well- dressed, pretty brunette obtained $5,000 in a lone hold-up of the Col- damage has been reported, with no casualties. orado State Bank yesterday. Government Merchant Marine Had Loss of Over Million Dollars in 1928 Ottawa, April 12--The Canadian Government Merchant Marine Lim- ited, now the Canadian National Steamships Limited, had an operat- ing loss in 1928 of $1,209,083, as com~ pared with $720,735 in the previous vear, according to the annual report tabled in the house of commons yes- terday by Hon, Charles A. Dunning, minister of railways and canals, The operating revenues of «the fleet amounted to $9,112,510, regular sail- ings being maintained during the year 'to the United Kingdom, Ant- werp, the West Indies, Australia, and in inter-coastal trade. Operat« ing expenses were reduced by $638,« 106, but this did not meet the shrink« age in revenues. ? "Generally speaking," says the re- port, "the adverse showing was due to reduction in rates ,to increased competition on certain routes as well as $0 the strike at Antwerp dur- ing the summa months and the can- tinued reduced - buying power. in South Wales due to the limited coal mining operations. Owing 40 these unfavorable conditions a comparison of actual earnings in 1928 and 1927 New Zealand and = South America, does not reflect the true position." » 4 NC