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OL. 4--NO. 121 Pw) 22 bbb ttt bbe ttt dtd od ldtadlid hid ddA § News in Brief | (By Canadien Pres) hh Drowning Accidental Port Colborne. -- A coroner's jury yesterday returned a verdict of accidental death by drowning in the Welland Canal of John Fater of Welland, drowned at Rameys Bend a week ago when he fell from a coal sow Jato the canal. Gasoline vp One Cent Toronto. -- An advance. of one cent a gallon in gasoline prices will go nto effect throughout Ontario today. The advance is attributed by officials of local oil companies to drain on the supply and that there had been a general advance in most parts of ~Cenada. Returned Men's Lasse Discussion Is for Today Ottawa.--A resolution extending the time for receiving applications tor insurance under the returned, soldiers insurance act for one year from ~August 31, 1929, will be considered in committee of the whole today: * * 30 Mile Chase London, -- A 30 mile chase by three police officers last night cul- minated in the arrest of two De- troit youths, Fred June, 19, and Thomas . Heirs, 18. The pouths had stolen an automobile and six- teen shots were fired at it before the boys decided to stop and sur- render. * * * Ordered to Eschew. Tobacco Lancaster, Pa. -- Clergymen of the church of the United Brethren Baily Times Succeeding The Oshawgq Daily Refromer A Growing Newspaper in a Growing City __OSHAWA, ONTARIO, . THURSDAY. MAY 23, 1929 10 Cents a Week; 3 Cents a Copy. » "SIXTEEN PAGES PA 20 INJURED | 1A ILTON EXPLOSION Automobile I lustry Centre of Interest in Election {JAM FACTORY EMPLOYEES BURNED OR OVERCOME BY FUMES FROM COMPRESSOR Victims Rushed to Hospital From Plant of Wagstaffe, Limited, and Two of Them May Not Recover EXPLOSION RELEASED DEADLY GAS FUMES Police and Firemen Called to Aid of 150 Workers in the Building, and All But Score Escaped Without Injury (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) in Christ must stop using tob or lose their licenses. The quad- rennial general conference of the chureh adopted a resolution pro- viding the revocation of ministers' ordination if found guilty of smoking, chewing, or using snuff. * * * Extend Plant Brantford. -- The + Brantford Roofing company is erecting an extension to their plant on the site of the former Brandon Shoe com- pany to turn out emulsified as- phalt, which can be. applied cold, eliminating /the need for heating apparatus for the laying of asphalt pavement, * * * Hockey Star Sentenced Sault Ste. Marie.--~Ross Ganton, 1 8, star of this city's Junior Grey- hound hockey team. was yesterday sentenced to from 1 to 5 years at hard labor in 'the Michigan Sault, Some weeks ago Gapton held up a confectioner across the river, but in court today he changed his plea, from atémpted robbery. to carrying concealed weapons. J GENERAL MOTORS SHOWS INCREASE IN TRUCK SALES Export Business Increases 169 Per Cent. Over Last Year Detroit, May 23.--Sales of General Motors Truck Co. products continue to increase and reports for the first four months of the year reveal new high records. Sales of Yellow coach- es during the first four months of this year were 22 per cent, greater than in the same period of 1038, and were in excess of 5000 units. On May 1 the company's coach division had on hand unfilled orders for 500 coach- es, The total export business of the company for the first quarter of 1929 showed an increase of 169 per cent, over the first quarter of 1928. During the first four months the. to-. tal units sold for export trade were 4025. During the first quarter dom- estic truck sales increased about 18 per cent. and the total improvement in truck sales for the first quarter was $2,125,000 or about 45 per cent. The largest gains in truck sales were in the light delivery: group, where a 100 pér cent gain was made, and in the heavy duty trucks which made 4 gain of 600 per cent. Growth of G.M. Truck export busi- ness is shown by the following fig- ures: Year Sales 1925 527 1926 690 1927 1622 135 per cent 6379 293 per cent 4025 (first 4 mon.) 1928 WEATHER 1929 Piexssure is low to north. ward over the Upper Lakes, and showers have occurred in Northern Ontario and Lake Superior districts, while else- where the weather has ben for the most part fair. Mod. erately warm in the west and slightly: below normal temperature in Eastern Cana- da. P:ossure is high over the 'Atlantic States and Mani- »toba. Georgian Bay and Northern Ontario -- Fresh southwest winds; showery. Friday -- Northwesterly winds; clear- ing and cool. Lower Lake Region--Fresh southwest winds with showers or local thundertsorms this afternoon, tonight and prob- ably early Friday followed by. erly winds; leaving and ~ Increase Hamilton, Ont, May 23.---More than a score of empioyees of Wag- staffe, Ltd.,, jam manufacturers, were burned or overcome by fumes when the cylinder head of a com- pressor in the cold storage plant blew off while being repaired. Two of the victims are being given oxygen 'at the General Hospital, but 'it is thought they and all others will recover. The compressor had 125 pounds pressure and when the cylinder head was blown off the pump con- tinued to work and sent furies throughout the building. Police and firemen were called and they with the aid of employees carried those who had been gassed or burned to the lawn where the ma- jority quickly recovered in the fresh air. Those most seriously affected are; William Martin, machinist, East 32nd Street, Mont Hamil- ton, badly burned about face and hands and gassed; Thomas Hey- wood, engineer, - Bolsam Ave. South burned and overcome J. McNab, machinist, Mimico, burned and overcome; Mrs, W, Venney, 5th Street, Mountain Top, badly gassed; Miss Emma Wild, Fergu- son Ave. North and Mrs. H. Mer- ritts, Balmoral Avenue North, gassed, Mr. Heywood and Mrs. Venney are being treated with oxygen, There were about 150 in the plant when the explosion occurred, but all but a score escaped harm. Dual Flight of Atlantic Likely Planes, One Rome, the Other for Paris, Likely to Take Off Together (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Old Orchard Beach, Maine, May 23. -- A simultaneous take-off, of two planes flights, one bound for Rome and the other = Paris, ' appeared in prospect today with announcement that the French plane Bernard- 191 would be brought here from Roosevelt Field, N.Y., for its flight to the French capital. Armano Lotti, Jr., backer of the French flight, after an inspection of the hard hand beach here said his plane would be flown here as soon as weather conditions permit. The plane, in which Lotti, Jean Assolent and Rene Lefevre will be occupants, has been at Roosevelt Field for several days awaiting favorable weather conditions for its flight to Paris. Lotti said the Beach here would permit a safer take-off than Roosevelt Field. Given Purse of Gold Ingersoll.--A purse of gold was the gift of former members of the North Oxford township council, of- ficials and other friends, to Rich- ard Seldon, who, owing to ill health recently resigned after serv- ing for more than 37 years con- tinuously as clerk and treasurer of the township. Peasant Party Leader Arrested Says Report Vienna, May 23--Private ' reports .{ from Agram, Croatia, Jugoslvaia, to- Dr. Viadimir Macek, | day said that successor to Stefan Raditch as presi- dent of the Croatian peasant part had been arrested and pl would be interned. Macek was accused of giving an unfavorable interview to an Ameri- can correspondent relating to con- ditions 'in' Jugoslavia since the es- tablishment of the dictatorship. Growing = excitement . was reported throughout Croatia, ' on Trans-Atlantic | of himself Tuberculosis Cure Swindle Exposed Five Persons Charged With Using Mails to Defraud { T.os Angeles, Calif... May 23--=What federal authorities called one of the largest "tuberculosis cure," swindles ever perpetrated in the West was brought to light here yesterday with the indictment of five persons on charges of using thc mails to" de- fraud. Charles F. Aycock and Glen S. Jordan, named in indictments; were arrested 'and bond fixed at $10,000 and $5,000, respectfully. Telegraphic warrants for the arrest of Adolph Beyer, George T. Lester, and Martin H. Lester, were. sent to the United States Marshal at Denver, Colo. Post-office inspectors said the "guarantecd cure" preparations ex- ploited by the defendants had vie- timized more than 10,000 persons to the extent of about $1,000,000 over a period of several years, Government chemists and medical experts were unanimous in the states ment that the preparations sold by the 2lleged combine were worthless in treating tubcreulosis. Two Men Found Dead Toronto.--Two men were found dead in their respective homéx to- day as the result of inhaling illum=- inating gas. Frank Ligwson, 49, and Ole Osland, 74, were the vic- tims, WINS THE TITLE IS CHAMPION ORATOR Roche Pinard, 18, of Montreal, whose eloquent speech of 'Canada Among the Nations' won him the.Canadian Oratorical contest at the Arena last night, Pinard will represent Canada at the International contest in 'Washington. King Recor From Long Illness oloe nm EALTH REGAINED THE 'ollo' Meturns home. KING RETURNS ng a rapid convalescence at Cry a #liness; the King motored a & 0 WINE V 0, 3, Windtor Case Be wan urney 'was deseri » Just eceived, shows Bim smiling an irs se bind House, SIDELIGHTS ON THE BRITISH ELECTION (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) London, May 23.--All parties are endeavoring 'to reach an intensive note in the six days remaining before polling on May 30 ends this election campaign, Premier Stanley Baldwin said last night he "feels as fit as ev- er." Rt, Hon, David Lloyd George is also going strong, but Rt. Hon.- Ram- say MacDonald, who unhappily never enjoyed really robust health, confess- ed to a Birmingham audience last night that he had left part of his voice behind him, Polling has already begun in some constituencies, Many naval and mili- tary men entitled to rank as "absent voters," have forwarded their ballot papers to the respective returning oi- ficers, Speaking at Alnwick, Northumber- land, last night, Viscount Grey said he was convinced the Liberal vote would be vastly increased. He said even 200 members would be enough to save the country from "the twin evils of Conservative protection and Socialist reckless expenditure." Sir Austen' Chamberlain, secretary of state for Foreign Affairs, speak- ing at Birmingham, said : "It has been my effort to pursue not a party policy in foreign affairs but one which spoke the mind and heart of the nation and which in all broad lines and great principles followed naturally the pol- icy which my predecessors pursued and could be adopted by my succes- sors to whatever party they belong- ed." Sir William Joynson-Hicks, secre- tary of state for home affairs, in ad- dressing a Bootle election meeting, registered a protest against Labor's Russian policy with a bang on the speaker's table which broke his rim- less glasses. When Sir Herbert Austin, Bir mingham motor car manufacturer, was shown the report of a speech by Rt. Hon, Ramsay MacDonald, Labor leader, last night, he remarked: "I seen to be-causing Mr. marked: a lot of worry. 1 certainly will reply when I have studicd the natugé of his allegations," REVISED POSTAL RATES ANNOUNCED Fifty Per Cent. Reduction From France to This Country L (By Canadian Press Lemed Wire) Paris, May 23. A new postal convention between France and Canada whereby postage from .| France to Canada is reduced fifty per cent. and that from Canada to France takes the same rate as to Great Britain was signed in tue Foreign Office today. L. J. Gaboury, deputy post mas- ter general and Philliv Roy, Can- adian' minister in Paris, signed for Canada while TIoreign Minister Bgiand, and German Martin, un- der-secretary for Posts and Tele- graphs, signed for France. Lead Unchanged Pecos, Tex, -- The lead of 21 minutes and 20 seconds of Johnny Salo, Passaic, N.J.,, over Peter Gabuzzi of England, still was unchanged at the start of today's 58-mile lap to Kent, in. C. C. Pyle's Bunion Derby. "Safety First" Becomes More Than a Slogan as Election Battle Rolls on in Britain (By George Hambleton, Canadian Press Staff Correspondent) "Safety first" has ceased to be merely a Conservative slogan. It has become an election issue in this elec- toral struggle which' is notable for having no single predominant issue. Its echoes now reverberate through the length and breadth of the country. Premier Baldwin has pér- sonally come 'to the defence of the device which flanks a huge portrait on almost every bille board, but the Liberals and Labor scoff at it as typical of what they term the Toty type of mind. "Safety first," exclaims Ramsay Macdonald. "But whose safety first. Is it safety first for the Tory party or is it safety first for the dweller in the slums?" Sir Oswald Mosley calls it "Bald- win's bleat." / Sir Oswald and his wife, Lady Cynthia Moselay are both Labor candidates. She is the daugh- ter of Lard Curzon and is opposing Lt.-Col. John Ward, himself and ex- naif man in Stoke-On-Trent, Stoke. fety first" is an appeal to cow- ardice, Tt is not an appeal to Eng- land," charges Sir Oswald, campaign- ing in Birmingham. . "Why. for the last four years:Premicr Baldwin has | L J EE sat like a hypnotized rabbit in front of a snake." Mr. Baldwin's retort is to compare the party slogan to the same slogan used at railway crossings. Safety first, he 'says has saved many lives but it has never hampered the pro- gress of; railways and he adds it is much better to spend a few minutes waiting on an English pavement than eternity in a tomb in Russia. So the noise of battle rolls on in every borough, county and hamlet. Manchester, Eng., May 23--Thanks to exceptipnally avarm weather the election campaign in Manchester is a very tame: affair. The campaign is going along quict and without ex- citing incidents. Perspiring. candidates arc listened to outdoors with respect but without enthusiasm. Indoors they face the depressing spectacle of scanty aud- iences: straggling = over school-room benches.. The candidate moreover usually has the additional melancholy reflection that after all he is preach- ing 'only to those already converted to his cause, The honor of representing the ten divisions of Manchester is being sought by 29 candidates, and there are seven candidates for the adjoin- "+ {Continued on Page 3) Reparations Expert From Germany Quits Disagreement Arises Over Acceptance of the Neces- ary Concessions (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) ° Berlin, May. 23. -- Dr. Albert Voegler, colleague of Dr. Hjaimar Schacht on the German delegation to the experts conference on Rep- arations at Paris, resigned that place today. The German Governs ment will accept the resignation. Dr. Boegler returned here ab- ruptly from Paris yesterday. pre- ceded by reports that h was a= satisfied with Reparations propos- als put forward by Owen D, Young, United States chairman of the conference, and wauld refuse to affix his name to a settlement embodying them, * Dr. Ludwig. Kastl, who has worked with Drs. Schacht and Voe- gler since the inception of the con- ference, will succeed to Dr. Voeg- Ir's place on the German delega- tion, It was understood Dr. Voegler's tentative resignation was haded in some time ago but 'only.became positive and . irrevocable today when :conc¢itions of the: Allied ex- perts' counter proposals*to reser- vations of the German experts be- came known. North Ireland Election Results Belfast, Northern Ireland, May 23--The state of the parties in the Ulster parliamentary. election inclyding unopposed returns this afte oon was as follows: Inionists, 23; Indep r 3 = 13 Nationalists, 7. Waterloo.--The public utilities commission meeting in monthly sesgjon this afternoon, unanimous- ly endorsed the installation of an emergency plat at the local water works, representing an' outlay of approximately $32,000. NO PAPER TOMORROW Owing ' to tomorrow being Victoria Day and a Dominion holiday, there will be no issue of The Times. Bulletins of important news, however, will be posted as usual, in the win- DEATH JUMP FROM MANHATTAN BRIDGE Suffering From Nervous Ail- ment, Engineer Takes | d His Life (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) New York, N.Y, May 23--A man jumped 155 feet off the Manhattan Bridge over the East river and was drowned early today after bidding a passerby, * 'good bye, good luck and God bless you" A note found in a travelling bag left on the bridge read: "This be- longs to Mr. Paul Liqunce, 304 Gar- field Place, Brooklyn. Please notify the police." Friends told the police Liqunce, abotu 39 years old, and an engineer for the New York Edi- son Co. had been suffering from a nervous ailment for the last three months. $1,800,000 Building Montreal.--A 21 storey building will be erected on Place d'Armes, according to a permit taken out at the city hall yesterday. The amount entailed in the permit is $1,800,000. BRITISH MANUFACTURER IN CONTROVERSY WITH LABO OVER REMOVAL OF DUTIES Republicans Determined to Raise Tarifts Accede To Demand For#Pro- tection Against Com- aps petition of Canada Ld Washington, May 23.--Republicans of the House way and means com mittee, following their efforts to, a- gree on changes in the traiff bill, madz their report to the House Re- publican conference at a meeting be- hind closed doors today. Among the changes w 'hich were re- ported to the conference was one of special importance to Canada, an in- creasc in the duty on live cattle. The new rates are two cents on all cattle under 900 pounds and two and one half cents on all over 900. The pre- sent rates are one and one half cents on all under 1,050 pounds and gwo cents over that. Hides are given a duty of ten per cent. with 15 per cent. on leather and 20 per cent. on shoes. Still an- other important change having cffect on Canadian imports is an addition of 25 cents per hundred pounds the rate on potatoes as prion with the original bill. The, increase has been demanded by Maine grow- ers and others against Canadjan com petition, and also against. the: Ber- niudas and other exporting countries, tnespite of 'the fact these amd 6vier changes had been settled 'on by: the ways and means Republicans, efforts were made this morning to keep them secret until the Republican .confer- ence had passed on them, FROM NEW ZEALAND PRESS PRESIDENT ARRIVES Robert Bell, president -of the World's Press conference, arriv- ed in Toronto today. 1.9 Bell is president' 'of the Lyttiet( Times and the Christ-church Star, two of the oldest news- papers in New Zealand. Japan's Reception of Duke of Gloucester, Marked by Most Elaborate Possible P ods (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Tokyo, Japan, May 23--There is no doubt that H.RH. the Duke of Gloucester, who sailed from Yoko- thama aboard the Canadian Pacific Liner the Empress of Asia for Van- couver, B.C, today, captured 'the hearts of the Japanese people, so well that it must be extremely gratifying to the Prince himself. A shade less completely, perhaps, than did his brother, the Prince of Wales, some six years ago; but then the heir to the throne is exceptional, in a class by himself. The instant popularity that the Duke achieved when he arrived on May 2 to confer the Order of the Garter on. Emperor Hirohito, is at- tested not only by the cordiality of his official welcome; not only by the warm words that greeted him at ban- quets and on other formal occasions; not only in the newspapers; but also and especially by remarks heard in the trains, motor busses, and other public conveyances, on the streets, in clubs, and particularly where the young people gather, "A splendid young man!" was the essence of the comment of the people in general, Japan's reception of the Duke of dow of The Times office. ! Gloucester, as befitting this mission of bearing the Order of the:Garter to the Emperor, was marked bythe most elaborate possible procedure, as instanced by the fact that the Emperor in person left the Imperial Palace and went to the Central Rail- way Station to meet him. Such a step is taken but rarely during the reign of a sovereign of Japan, and was the first by the pres- ent Emperor since he ascended the throne. The last time was when he, as Crown Prince, and acting for his father, similarly greeted the Prine of Wales, No higher honor can be accorded a guest of the state in Japan, On the other hand there was an atmosphere of refreshing simplicity during the Duke's visit," instead of profuse ostentation and too stiff. for- mality, and thé Duke was made to feel at home with a welcome of un- mistakably frank friendship, not only for himself but as the representative of the ' British Royal Family, for whom it is no fiction that the Japan- ese entertain the highest regard. Prince Chichitu, 'virtual heir to the throne of Japan, accgmpanied 'the Duke vcerywhere, not 'only in 'the manner of having to do so officially, dustry T sie Herbert Austin Threatens To Close Large Plant If Safeguarding Duties Are Removed In Event of Labor Success SPIRITED REPLIES BY LABOR LEADERS Ramsay MacDonald Declares Labor Government Would Not Be Intimidated by Threats of Capitalists -- Would Take Over Plant and Operate It (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) London, May 23.--Sir Herbert Aue stin today made his promised reply to the speech of Rt. Hon. J. Rame« say MacDonald last night, and advan« ced his controversy with the Labor party a step further, He holds it 1s his duty to warn the electors and es« pecially his own workers of the pos« sible consequences of removing the safeguarding duty on automobiles bc= cause after the election it would be too late. He said he was well aware of the provisions of the Emergency Powers Act, referred to by Rt. Hon. Philip Snowden Iagt night. He was also aware that if any government com= mitted the unpardonable crime of de liberately destroying an important in« like the motor car trade by repealing the McKenna duties the ele ectors would leave it in power long cnough to put the Emergency. Powers Act into operation and in afly case no government could resurrect an ine dustry in the last stages of decay. Centre of Interest The controversy between Sir Here bert Austin, head of the great auto- mobile concern at Birmingham and Labor party leaders now occupies tha centre of interest in the election came paign, It began when Sir Herbert made public a letter saying that if 'the McKenna duties were removed after a. change of government his plant might have to close down. Would Take Control Robert Dennison, Labor candidate in King's Norton, the nding in which the Austin Works are situated, ree plied by declaring that if the Aus tin or any other works were closed down because of the advent of a La« bor government that government would take over control. Find Body of Missing Woman Two Months' Search Result. ed in Recovery of Body | From River (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) 'Lewiston, Maine, May 23--A twe months' search for Mrs. Thelma Smith, young Portland mother, wha authorities said was the victim of an alleged illegal operation, was ended today. Her body, identified by a friend, lay in a morgue here pending an autopsy. The body of the woman, whose disappearance Mar. 22, ev entually 'led to issuance of manslaughter warrants against Dr. Charles K. Donnell, aged physician, and Mrs, Estelle Edwards, housckeeper, both of Lewiston, was found last night lodged in a mass of debris in the Androscoggin river & mile below the city. The Swedish Government is ine stalling a large new broadcasting station at Stockholm. : Safeguarding Light Woolen Industries (By Canadian Pre Press Leased Wire) | York, Eng, May 23--The Yorke shire Post says it learns on reliable authority that the recent application for a safeguarding duty on light woollen textiles has been successiul and, assuming the present governs ment is returned to power, the necessary legislation will be includ« ed in a second finance bill in connecs tion with this year's budget. The application of a number of textile manufacturers for safeguards ing duty was the subject of a lengthy inquiry before a 'committee of the « but also taking a boyish enthusiasm and pleasure in it. * Board of Trade which ended some months ago. . -