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"Al the News While It Is News" he Oshawa Daily Tunes No Succeeding The Oshawa Daily Reformer A Grew Newspaper in. a Growing City VOL. 5--NO. 75 Published at Oshawa, Ost. Sundays and Canada, Every QUESTION SHEARER ON DOCUMENTS One Allegedly Scotland Yard Dossier, Other British Paper Washington, Sept. 28--When William B. Shearer faces the sen- ate naval affairs sub-committee on Monday, according to the present plan, two 'secret' documents are destined to play an important part in the grilling which promises to be the high point in the investi- gation into his propagandist acti- vities as the paid agent of ship- 'builders. Copies of 'photostats" of the two documents are now in the hands of the senators on the sub- committee. One purports to be the Scotland Yard resume or dos- gier described in testimony yester- day as having been in possession of Albin E. Johnson, Geneva cor- respondent of the New York World. The other is a copy of the "secret" British document which Shearer professed to have unearth- ed and handed to a prominent sen- ator. Ostensibly Shearer referred to ex-Senator James A, Reed of Mis- souri. If Reed is called before the committee he will testify that he never had anything to do with Shearer, paid no attention to the allegedly secret Britsh document, and that the navy speech he made at the time was totally unconnect- ed with this document, despite Shearer's innuendocs that he in- spired it. Moreover, the committee in- tends to inquire into the origin of this document, and will seek to establish beyond all question whe- ther it is of an official charac- ter from the files of records of the British government. Both Documents Significant Members of the committee at- tach much significance to both these documents, as predicates of the examination to which they now plan to subject the man who boasted of his influence in caus- ing the break up of the 'Geneva naval conference of 1927. The committee expects to re- ceive a request for a hearing by the naval experts on the staff of the United States delegation to Geneva, who were named yester- day as associates of Shearer dur- ing that conference by Drew Pear- son newspaper reporter at the Geneva meeting. If those named do not come forward ta answer, the committee will cal them. Rear Admiral J. M, Reeves was singled cut by Pearson as one of the experts he heard openly ex- press the hope that the conference would not succeed, How Abin E. Johnston, Geneva correspendent of the / New York World, refused to have anything to do with William RB. Shearer's propagandist attempts to influence the American press during the Ge- Meva naval conference - of 1927, fs told in extracts from testimony before the senate naval. affairs tommittee. The facts, as related to the com- mittee by Drew Pearson, Wash- ington correspondent of the Balti- more Sun and other newspapers, who attended the Geneva confer- ence, appear in the official tran- script of the hearings. His exam- ination was conducted by Senator Allen (R., Kansas), one of the three members of the sub-commit- tee, as follows: Scotland Yard Record "I forgot to ask you one ques- tion about an incident that keeps coming up from the memory of correspondents touching Shearer and Albin Johnson. It was stat- ed, if T may refresh your mem- ory, that Johnson possessed a Scotland Yard record of Mr. Shear- er. Do you have any recollec- R. McCurtin Wounded in Day Except Public tion of any incident that surrounds that?" "Yes." "Will you tell the committee about that, please?" 'Johnson showed me this document." "First will you identify Mr. Johnson?' "Albin E. Johnson. He was the correspondent for the New York World and of Editor and Publisher in Geneva, John- son_had this document which pur- ported to be the Scotland Yard record of Shearer. He did not show it to very many people, but somehow or other it leaked out and Shearer knew about it. Dur- ing the entire conference John- son gave Shearer a very wide berth. They did not get along at all. Johnson refused to have any- thing to do with Shearer's 'hand- oufs," so far as I know, and com- plained to the American delega- tion of members of the American delegation--I think Ambassador Gibson himself--that Shearer was allowed to operate, "Johnson had been in Geneva for many vears and had seen Shearer operate at the prepara- tory commission and he knew more about him than any other newspaperman there. That 'ig the story, as far as I got it from John- son. Now, when I came back to Wasliington 1 met Shearer in the Mayflower hotel, during the time when the cruiser bill was first in- troduced. I think it was then proposed to have 70 'ruisers. Jt was not the cruiser bill that was passed, but one {introduced the year before, and was delayed. Shearer told me that he would come to work on that." SUSPECT AUTO THIEF IS SHOT Leg During Chase on Toronto Strects Toronto, Sept. 28.--Brought down by a police bullet in a chase along Gough avenue, near Dan- forth, at one o'clock this morning, one of two suspected automobiie thieves was captured after gun fire by P. C. Matthew Henderson (803), Pape avenue division, Robert MecCurtin, 22, Carlaw avenue, was taken to Toronto General hospital with a bullet in his leg. Another youth, identity vet unknown, is being sought by detectives. ' He si believed to have cscaped injury. The automobile, owned hy M. Wood, Hopedale avenue, had been stolen from its parking place on Woodmount shortly before 10 o'clock. Henderson, patrolling his beat three hours later, recognized the machine. Two men the engine at were tinkering with the time, a plugged gasoline line having stalled the machine, They failed to notice the advance of the policeman un- til he was a few feet av ay. Henderson ordered the two to the curbing. Instead of obeying, they broke and ran, hurrying across Danforth avenue and up Gough avenue. Three times, Henderson says, he crdered them to stop. Then he drew his revolver and fired three times. into {he air to frighten them. A fourth aimed at the time the. constable legs of one of the fleeing men. MecCurtin tumbled forward, The other youth contin- ued to run, Henderson stopped the chase and called an ambulance to take the wounded man to the hospital. Henderson has heen a member of the Toronto police department only for the past 18 months and go ranks as a third-class consta- ble. Previous to enlisting with the local force, however, he served for five years with the Ulster spe- cial constabulary. Travel The King's Highway CHANGE OF Effective Sunday, September 29th OSHAWA ~ FARE~--85¢ LEAVE OSHAWA (Eastern Standard Time) 7.00 a.m. and 7.3Q a.m. daily except Sunday 8.30 a.m. and every hour on the half hour until 10.30 p.m. daily. 11.00 p.m. Sunday only. TIMETABLE TORONTO | tural Editors Take 40-mile Canoe Trip OSHAWA, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1929 15 Cents a Week; 3 Cents a Copy. Second Section--Pages 11-20 ms - % ' wri rtH( Luncheon scived in the opca at Stoney Bam--(4) A view ef the Mic Eighteen newspapermen recently | got together by Major David M. took a forty-mile trip over | Stuart, Hudson's Bay factor. at | Lake Manitowick, Dog Lake and | Missinabie, For many of the edit- hie E ors it was their first experience the Michipicoten River by Hudson ,f portaging but all came Fini Bay canoes from Missinabie on the | in great shape and at Pine Lak: main line of the Canadian Pacific | they sat down to a lumber camp Railway to mile 155 on the Algoma | meal, later seing introduced to tne Central. They travelled special train | steam baths customary where to Franz and the trip was under | Finns are employed in lumbering. the guidance of a party of Indians | These consist of water poured over (1) Lumber Camp at Pine Lake--(2) A. R. Whittaker, Brantford Expositor, captures fine Northern Pike--(3) ipicoten River. heated stones followed by a dash of cold water from a pail, a novel sensation to the pany. the route they enjoyed magnificent scenery and some very good fish- ing. The trip was organized by J. W. Curran Star, with a view to showing the beauties of the North Country to newspapermen was entirely successful, All along editor, Sault Daily an a'm in which he A Glimpse of Northern Ontario's Lakes and Forests BY A. R. ALLOWAY Fourth article on Editors' trip thrcugh Northern Ontario cedar ba | mctures | W¢ | we stopped for | office--and | great pack, | th Have you ever left the the car---for trail Dipped your paddle the cit d your Have ed to when stream fast Pitched a tent or when Have you know sure when 'the forests' to Leep one ie trails through en the ve boulder bu rn smoother by f assined feet of ¢ men who have Sen generations as when night 1s falling | packed from one. lake to another, skie In Manotowik Lake ' : rmoon wou wood the torr Indi full vou the SWiin runs att Ie om Wwe . end. of Dog lake hook, re 10 As you scek the : river, lake or ? Seen the woods in all their ] the northern sky aflame rit has Followed tangled woodland pathwas 10et in to the hidden haunts of game LJ] * * nny. tre were met by a Fin Hormavirta, by teresting char bra [1 a n--Han 1 1107 Motor many a. da the most on Happy memories of a fort { of canoe trip throvgh a part of North and | €5 an = i HEARST Sag KAPUSKASING So HARIKA - Yen, *~., COCHRANE Co a #1R0/UoIS FALLS (rarem) "TIMMINS ei sous) KIRKLAND h LAKE "\ (Gouo) o COBALT NL Gi (SILVER) SAULT STE MARIE RIG, (TELL AnD PAPLR Y. Noss Cn. PAC. Ry ed 7 4 7, 7 ova ret NVI mn) v I) A 7 BAY MAP SHOWING ROUTE FOLLOWED BY EDITORS' PARTY ON NORTHERN, ONTARIO TRIP ornoyoL bi 43 ON i hi ern Ontario that is rich alike in na- | --just the kind all Ontario towns beauty and historic interest 'covet but very few possess. A tramp crowd in upon me as | write. through the woeds, over a trail cut Capping it all was hospitality of aby the CIR, construction gang kind that one sometimes reads about [many vears ago, brought us shortly but seldoin experiences. First at the [to Mr. Hormavirta"s camp. We were hands of a Hudson Bay Company |a wee bit hungry but not for long. "factor" and his avife, then in the [he camp cook had prepared boun company of a number of Opbveay In- | for us and Mrs. Hormavirta, dians, and then as guests of a Fin- s her sister, Mrs. Yokella, nish logging 'and pulpwood contractor we were royally treated, company, on those | walked overland to Mr the | icadquarters camp : trod they and Manotowik not been our privilege to boats ded up the trip through Mano- ul, by seven o'clock we perfect | Finnish holiday cu had cver seén Hav ja hearty cheer as our nictropolis: or the Lush. | cane t which the ACR. | have nothing finer to offer and it is { doubtful if [b wacn Leave Oshawa East ten minutes earlier. LEAVE TORONT O:-- (East. Stand. Time) 7.30 a.ms daily except Sunday. 8.30 a.m. and every hour on the half-hour until 11.30 p.m. daily. Coach connections at Toronto for Stouffville, Bar- rie, Orillia, Midland, Cookstown, bing Or- angeville, Hamilton, Brantford, St. Catharines, Nia- gara Falls, Buffalo and intermediate points: Coach connections at Buffalo for all U.S.A. points. Tickets and intormation at GRAY COACH LINES Hotel Oshawa Phone 2825 and his family, Over Historic Trails Eighteen of us leit the jadies and other members of the party at Franz --the junction point of the Algoma Central and C.P.R.--and 'journeyed by the latter line to Missinabie where we were 'met by Major David M the Hudson Bay post were treated to a sumptuous fish dinner and shortly after set out on the first lap of our canoe trip with Ojibavay Indians as guides and expert canocists." What a care free feeling we all had as our canoes skimmed along over the surface of Dog Lake, on the very route followed hundreds of years ago by an carlier race of Canadians on the journey from Lake Superior to Hudson's Bay. The route travelled has. changed but little in appearance, we were told, since the days of Radisson, the first white man to travel it from Michipo- there. We caten River to James Bay. The same Stuart ard Mrs. Stuart, in charge of { the camp; on \ {our attention for an hour or * two young women spent their { girlhood 'in Toronto, being daughters Yof. Mr. Lindella, a well-known Fin- nish in civic politics twenty years ago, ance contesting the mayoralty of the Qucen City, In the Moonlight After' supper the beach in front of Pine Lake, engaged so. And what a glorious night it was. Were I a poet I might try and do justice to the scene--the deepening shadows of the wood, the tall majestic pines close to the water's edge, the rich, vellow, harvest moon shimmering its path of gold over the placed water; such a setting as to make onc forget business and all other worrics, forth- coming elections, and almost every- thing else. And there in the moon- light we sang or listened--songs in English, French and Finnish, until the fire on the beach burned low and the call of a comfortable couch of entleman who was prominent came table A Great Crop of Blucherrics I'h~ next morning after breakfast sumed our jo fishing a bit and with some hick) as one of the herewith she Abou ver where h and morc around the Iries we or oon rcached Michipocot ome | fishing, also a portage falls at that point A stream nearly to Cat Jall mid trip down s and about mbarked and Hormavirta's t Mile 155 on the | Algoma Central The le dl through a "patch" of blueberries hundreds of acres in \nd such a crop! It did that more of them could not be picked and shipned, but of course the north is blue with them at the same scason. At 4 o'clock the 'conks provided another real meal, this time a garden party effect, table sect on the la cautiful linen and best dish had been cut 1 and iC he ground along one afternoon we dis extent seem too had 1 whole and ladies woodsimen's trees sid new told. forest" --wec were "Come Again" The local train picked us little later and we rejuined Gur Hawk Junction t mor sed the camp ag on to the Soo and there in Caves or tw was worked a sign in large I ce Again." We our delightful ish riends up a part ning our green train stopped May Canada wre such new-Canad alue of honest work | + life, whether in the | brief moment Beautiful Agawa Canyon We thought we run some beautiful scenery on our canoe trip, but it was all eclipsed when we to the Azawa Canyon, through "Nine 'miles of scenery wholesale" is the way J W. Curran, of the Soo Star, describ | ed it in his literature Certainly the Rockies had across runs. "come on" far-famed there. is scenery more beautiful, more gorgeous, anywhere in the world. The thought that seemed to be in everyone's mind was: "Why isn't it ter known; why doesn't the Soo ir the A.C.R. or somebody adver | it more." It's certainly 'worth stop- ping over at the Sco for a day to sce and we believe the time will come the Agawa Canyon to be regarded like Niaz one of Nature's crowning mas pieces, that will be visted by one gen- eration after another, as long as the world stands. Sault Ste. Marie, with its great steel mills and other fe: 5 of in- terest, is worthy of a ter" all to itself and it will therefore be the subject of the next and final article COMMUNITIES INFESTED WITH RATS Glace Bay, N.S, Sept. 28.--A Pied Piper is needed in the colliery d's- tricts of Caledonia and No. Eleven. Hundreds of large rats from one or more of the mines have scen fit to remove themselves and familes into more comfortable residences One resident brought his house cats into action when he ticed an intruder on the stairway One cat_was bowled over and . the other desisted when bitten on the nose. A woman found her pantry in the possession of five rats, some nearly ten inches long. The superstitutions are disturbed. They belive that since rats desert a sinking. ship, a disaster is in pros- pect for either No. 4 'or No. 11 Col- liery, from which the rodents must be emigrating. two no- | On C. W. PLAXTON, K.G., PASSES SUDDENLY. AT TORONTO HONE Prominent Toronto Lawyer Was in Seventy-first Year Sept. 28.--Charles K.C., well-known passed away his resi- ves- Toronto, Wilson Plaxton, Toronto barrister, after a short illness at dence, 66 Highlands Avenue, terday. The death comes 2s 2 great shock to Mr. Plaxton's friends in church, business and legal circles, for, though he was just beginning his seventy-firat he was until the middle of week very active, taking a keen interest: in his church, in athletics, politics and his profes- gional duties. Mr. Plaxton had associated with him as partners in his law firm, his four sons, George Gordon, James Otto, Herbert and Hugh John. A fifth son, Charles Perci- val, Senior Counsel for the De- partment 1stice at Ottawa, is now on his w to Enczland 'to plead a case before the Privy Council, Two sons. Herbert were members of the last Cana- dian Olympic team. A sixth Franklin Wilson Plaxton, business in Toronto. Mr. Pl is survived by his widow. six sons: four daughters, the Misses Iola and Phyllis Plaxton, Mrs, J. Stewart Hawley, all of Toronto, and Mrs. McBrien, wife of Dr. F. R. McBrien, Niagara I°2lls, N.Y.: two sistres, Mrs. T. W. Torrance, Toronto; Mrs. H, S. Scott of Cap d'Antabes, France, and ene broth- er, Dr, Otto G. Plaxton,- Toronto. Mr, Plaxton was born in March 13, 1859, his father be- ing George Plaxton, one of the early pioneers of Simcoe County. last and Hugh, BAFFIN LAND - NOT HIGHLY MINERALIZED Sydney, N.S, Sept. 28--"In opinion Baffin's Land is not highly mincralized," Commander Donald E. MacMillan said on his return here "The geological formation of the rocks leads me to that conclusion," he continued "There deposits of coal ar of magnatite iron ore of a very good quality. We could sce the veins of coal in the cliffs and ve had good reason to know about the magnitude as it played the mischief with compasses." my however, considerable deposits are, our James Samuel most widely Masonic ci his home, ox year, 3 prietor of the Uxbridge Times. = |SINGER 15 WARNED ABOUTHIS ANSWERS ('CONNORIS SCORED A.B.C. Commissioner Ad- mits Receiving $70,000 for Organization Toronto, Sept, 28.--*I would not care to answer publicly." This was the answer vouchsafed by Louis M. Singer, K.C., Commis- sioner of the Amalgamated Build- ers' Council, to Gorden Waldron; K.C., Chairman of the:Royal Com- mission investigating the opera- tions of the A.B.C., when the Com- mission, shortly after it resumed its probe yesterday at Osgoode Hall endeavored to learn what Mr. Sing- er had obtained through the organ- ization of guilds for the cloak and suit industry, the millinery trade, the hat and cap business, and for DIES AT AGE OF 91 Williams, one of the known men in Canadian les, who died fo-day -t ario St., in his 91st For ny years he was pro MYSTERY ATTENDS 5: {said the amount was $70,000. la later point in his examination by £ {F. W. Griffiths, K.C., it developed . and Mrs. F. Meecham, iq St. Lambert, Que., Dead | went | Thursday 1001, ng n aj Barrie | ; behind s just oft the The body of AMeecham have been in the water as his clothes were wet and which he used were for which was n bodies were preliminary est at Saturday. there 'rovincial Constable plumbing and heating contractors. Told that he must answer pub- Mr. Singer made a brief cal- the witness stand, and At {that he had been associated with {dyers and cleaners, some of whom $500 each into his office, | which occasioned the repiy from Valdron that "all the gold is | not north of Sioux Lookout." | Witness Is Warned i Once Mr. Singer was told by Mr. "I Waldron that the powers of the { Commission would be exerted ag- * lainst him if he did not mend his "way of answering questions. Mr. ldron followed this with another arning not to evade questions. p Int to warn you you must not evade questions," said the Com- { missioner. 'You must answer di- I return " |rectly. 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