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"All-the News While It Is News" Succeeding The Oshawa Daily Reformer Times A Growing Newspaper in a Growing City Published at Oshawa, On Day Except Sundays and Every Holidays OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1929 15 Cents a Week; 3 Cents a Copy TEN PAGES VOL. 5--NO. 149 News in Brief (By Canadian Press) Mayor Re-Elected Peterboro~Munieipal history has been made here by the return by acclamation for his third term of Mayor Roland Denne. iy Quarrel Ends Fatally Toledo ~Paul Smith, 34, married and the father of two children and Edward Schofner, 43, 'a roomer in the Smith home, are dead as a result of a quarrel which followed an argu- ment today. "in Premier In Holiday Elgin, Scotland --Prime Minister MacDonald argived here this morn- ing and departed immediately for his Scottish home at Lossiemouth, where he will spend a fortnight. Three Die In Plane Crash Dunn, N.C.--Three men were kill- ed when an airplane in which they were riding failed to right itself after a loop-the-loop and crashed to the ground within She Dunn city limits, Kills Whole Family ; Walnut' Cove, N.C, -- Becoming suddenly insane, a Stokes county farmer yesterday slew his wife and six children, and after laying them out for burial went into a patch of woods near his home and killed him- self with a shotgun. | 'Meningitis Epidemic Indianapolis, Ind--Five persons died here over night of spinal men- ingitis, prompting city health au- thorities to broadcast a general warning against the disease, which now has caused 22 deaths in two weeks, * % ¥ Serious Floods Elizabethtown. --Faced by serious flood conditions as a result 'of an ice jam in the Ausable river in northern ssex county, residents of the town of Jay asked and received immediate aid from Governor, Roosevelt, Minister Improving Ottawa.--Hon. W. R, Motherwell, minister of agriculture, was reported improved today. Mr, Motherwell is sulting from pneumonia. Attend- ing physicians stated the disease had @ no serious inroads on Mr. Motherwell's strength. Twelve Killed In Auto Paris--A Havas agency dispatch from Salonica, Greece, reported that 12 persons had been killed and six seriously injured when a train crash- ed into an auto bus. All the passen- gers on the bus were killed or in- jured, . r » Escape Plans Fail San Quentin Prison, Calif.--~Three convicts made 'a desperate attempt to escape from the prison here last night but were subdued after a scuf- fle and placed in solitary confine- ment, * % 0% Makes Port, Holds Flooded Providence, R.I.--~The Norwegian freighter, Karmoy, with a crew of 26, came into port here with one of her holds flooded, after grounding and being refloated off Nantucket Mon- day night. She made port with the assistance of two tugs. Three Killed Foy Markston, Wis.--Three members of one family were instanly killed in their automobile which was struck by #n express train. The party was on its way to Christmas mass. The dead are: Clara Smart, 44; John Smart, 42; and William Smart, who was 40 years old today. Recovering From Storm Seattle~The Pacific northwest, particularly western Washington, was recovering last night from the most destructive storm of the winter, The wind reached a velocity of 50 miles an hour, desrupting telephone, tele- graph and electric light and power service, * k ¥ Received By Pope Vatican City.--The Duke and Duchses of Aosta, the Duke of Spoleto, the Count of Turin, and the Duke of the Abruzzi, all mem- berd of or very near the Italian Royal family, were received in private audience by thé Pope this morning. ag Crushed by Moving Train St. Thomas--Jack F, Light, 11 Jonas street, brakeman on the Michi- Central railroad, was brought to the Memorial hospital here on Christmas eve, suffering from a bad- ly fractured thigh after being crush- ed nst the platform of the station at Tilbury during switching opera- I. * % ¥ Fire Destroys Refinery Lexington, Ky.--Fire last night destroyed the warehouse and office of the plant of the Gulf Refining near here, and was threat large storage tanks nearby. from the destruction of the ouse and 500 drums of oil, line, kerosene and alcohol was x ted at $40,000. © WEATHER An extensive area of low pres- sure centred over Manitoba ex. ' over the Upper Lakes and ; Western Stages while i is high over the' south- x and Pacific states, Except . for local snowflurries, the weath- gy been fair in all ces ) in the west and milder in Oltarie and western "Forecasts: Lower Lake re NEEDS OF WELFARE FU DARING FEAT IN MID-AIR SAVES LIVES Air Mechanic Climbed Out of Cabin and Held Broken Ski in Place With Feet While Landing Was Made COMPANIONS AWED BY HIS DARING ACT Smash Would Have Been In- evitable and Two Lives Might Have Been Lost, But for Mechanic's Gal lantry (By E. W, Davis, Canadian Press Staff Correspondent) Prince Albert, Sask., Dec, 26.~~ Aviators in the northland have a new hero today. He is Jim Cusa- tor, quiet and reserved alr mech- anle, who in one of the most dar- ing and brave feats In aviation an- nals of the north, most probably saved his own life and his pilot's here Tcesday just befored usk. In defiance of the relentless laws of gravity, Cusator, dangling by his_arms in space of the 70- mile an hour blast from the pro- peller, righted a tilted left ski and held it in a horizontal position un- til the machine had come to rest in safety on the ice-locked surface of the river here, Intimation of the perilous situa- tion of the pilot, George Homesay, and Aero Mechanic Cusator came first to pllots and mechanics of other machines whe. stood hy to watch the graceful Stinsoun-Detroit- er take off from the river on a test flight a few minutes after it had arrived from Saskatoon, Due to the soft spongy natcre of the snow, the pilot had experienced difficul- ties in getting Into the air and had narrowly escaped crashing on a bridge after a run of almost a mile. As the aoroplane circled back the watching airmen were horror- stricken to note the right ski had been damaged. Instead of being paralell to the fusilage, the front end dipped down at a dangerous angle. Experienced pilots knew in landing the tilted ski must strike the snow in such a way it would snap off and cause the machine to spin about the axle and probably turn over, 4 Jack Wight, pllot of a sister Stinson-Detroiter, leaped into the cabin of his machine, the engine of which had been leftr cunning, Open- ing the throttle wide, he sent the plane ploughing through the snow and then nosed it sharply up shortly after it left the river's sur- face. He zoomed it through the frosty air towards Homesay's plane just as it was circling to make a landing, and, bringing it on horl- zontal position, when level with the other machine, leaned out of the cabin and waved his arms and pointed to the tilted ski Cusator promptly = perceived what was wrong, opened the cab- in door, grasped the handles se- curely and lowered his body thro the opening. Observers breathless ly watched him attempt to reach the ski three times, each time to have the powerful breeze from the propeller whip his body back, Fin- ally he sccceeded in grasping the ski with his feet and then held it horizontal by hooking the back stay wire with one foot, While daneling in mid-air he enabled the pilot to make a safe landing. When the plane came to rest the hero mechanic was covered from head to foot with the soft snow thrown up by the skiis in the landing and was unperturbed as if he had just stepped from tho cabin, Stabbed in Quarrel Toronto.~--~Andrew Pusa, 28. vear-old Finn, was stabbed within an inch of his heart with a" dirk during a quarrel here last night. Alfred Mikkonan, 34, a fellow. countryman, was srrested on a charge of attempted murder. Heroic Flier Saves Plane From Three Killed in Level Crossing Crash Three persons met death on 'Christ. mas Day when the sedan in which they were riding waa struck by a C.P.R. train at the Islington crossing. Robert Morrison, 35, of Islington, had called for his mother-in-law Mrs. Hannah Redmond, and his brother. in-law John Redmond, to take them to his home for Christmas dinner They had been on their way only twenty minutes when the accident occurred, It is thought that Morri- son did not hear the warning bell as he drove right in front of the spuedin train. Picture No, 1 shows the level crossing at Islington, where | WOMAN, SON AND SON-IN-LAW MEET DEATH WHEN TRAIN HITS CAR AT ISLINGTON the accident happened. The auto- mobile in the photograph is standing where Morrison's car waa stench. Now| 2 shows the Morrison home in lsling- ton, where the widow and five chil. dren are left without a wage-earner. No. 3 is Mrs. Redmond, Morrison's mother-in-law and (4) John Red- «ld - mond, her son, both of whom were killed, .No. 5 shows the wreckage of the automobile strewn along the COBOCONK CRIME STILL UNSOLVED Inquest Still Deferred As No New Evidence Is Available Fenelon Falls, Doc, 26,~--8hot dead while in the woods north of Coboconk during October, a for elgner, presumed to be a German, remains unidentified in spite of the efforts of the Provincial Police to learn his name and to estab- lish the identity of a companion, said also to be a German, who was stated to have been seen with the man before farmers discovered the frozen body. Dr, H, White, Coroner, of Fone- lon Falls, stated that the Provin- olal Police had not informed him of any fresh evidence, After the formal opening of his inquest, Dr. White adjourned the investigation until Decembor, and when it was to have been held Provincial Po- lice from Lindsay were compelled to turn back on account of zero weather and impassable roads, The inquest was adjourned indefinite- 1y. U.S. OCEAN LINER IS DAMAGED BY FIRE (By Canadian Press Leased Wir) Singapore, Straits Settlements, Dec. 26.--~Approximately 150 tons of rubber were destroyed and 100 tons damaged by fire aboard the dollar liner President; Buren at its dock here today. The fifty passengers were disembarked safe- ly to hotels, but it was expected they. would continue. their voyage tomorrow, L) i for 200 yards. No. § is Edwin, 16-year-old son of Mr. Mor. rison, 'whose life was saved b he preferred to stay home and skate rather than go with his father, uncle and grandmother, Wiggins: "How long did you sleep last night?" Scroggips: "My full length -- five feet nine inches." Toronto, Dec, 26.--~Five persons met violent deaths throughout On- tario on Christmas Day. Thre were killed im a grado crossing accident at Islington, The fourth was an aged woman who died as flames swept her home near Port Hope, The fifth was a Kitchener milkman, crushed when his sleigh overturned, The dead are: Mrs. Hannah Redmond, 62, of York township, killed in the cross- Five Fatal Accidents in Ontario Sadden Festivities of Christmas ing mishap which also lives of two others: John Redmond, her son, Islington. Robert Morrison, 35, ton. Mrs. W. M, Myles, 70, victim of the Port Hope fire, Norman Voegtle, 30, of Kitchen- or, milkman, fAn inquest will be opened to- night ioto the fatal railroad acci- dent, took the 40, of of Isling- U.S. Army Fliers To Make Tests | Extensive Experiments To Started Early in January Washington, Dec, 26.--Flyers of the United States army alr corps will advance early in January over a 3,600 mile "battlefront," from detroit to Spokane, to measure the endurance of men and equipment in sub-zero weather and test the value of short-wave radio com- munication. | The war department today dane nounced its tentative plans, Ex- periments in long distance radio communication between the alr- craft and permanent ground sta- tions will be conducted in co-opera- tion with the American Radio Ro- lay League, which will create a network through thousands of am- ateurs to span the country from Soant to coast and border to bor- er. "Do you think T should get more for my poem if I set it to music?" "No. You would still have to sell it for a song. London, Dec. 26,--Ye olde Christmas day in Engladd came in lke a lamb and went out with a lashing, roaring gale that sent ships scooting for shelter all are ound the British Isles. The storm area extended from the Orkney is- lands to Spain. Vigo, Spain, reported the loss of the Norweglan steamer Aslang with the entire crew of 24, oft Farallones Bayona early yester- day. Wild Gale Sweeps Britain, ~ Sending Ships to Shelter blew out of the banishing the blue summery weather of southern England, Rain fell in torrents and hail rattled on the streets of London yesterday morn. ing while wild weather ruled the south coast. districts where Christ- mas visitors to resort towns watch- ed groat seas pound on the beaches and harbor walls at Folkestone The storm southwest, skies and and other ports, MAN TAKEN FROM JAIL AND SHOT Victim Then Thrown Over Chiff and Left to Die SS -------- Jackson, Ky,, Dec, 26.~Chester Fugate, a"tenant farmer helg for the slaying of hin landlord, was taken from the Beathitt county Jail yesterday morning, shot ha!f a dozen times. and thrown over a cliff, where five hours later his prayers and gror attracted help. Fugato was brought to a hos pital here, and when it was learn. ed- that he was not expected to live, hig signed statement was taken. Ho was sald to have stated that he recognized soveral of the mob, but county officials declined to give any intimation of thelr names pending arrests. SOVIET GOVERNMENT HELPING IN SEARCH Washigton, Dec, 26--~The Saviet government today formally notified Chairman Borah, of the Senate For- cign Relations Committee, that it was organizing an aeroplane expedition to search for Carl Eielson and Earl Borland, American aviators, who have been missing for six weeks off the Siberian coast, Spinach Not Much Use As Misletoe Coour D'Alnee, Idaho, Doc, 26, Noxt Christmas, if no mistlotoe is hand, young men should beware of trying to use a vegetable it resembles, Chief of Police Mich- rel Roche horned Into a street fracas, A young lady had slapped a beau brummel. "I'm not the type that can be mistletoed with spin- ach" she explained. He had met her on the street and held it over her head, to this morning riding out a gale a message received here from Cap- coal laden for Halifax, came when sufficiently, sald Captain Beyer, an STEAMER IN DISTRESS ON THE ATLANTIC Rudder Disabled, Captain Is Waiting for Storm to Blow Over Halifax, N.8., Dec, 26.--With her rudder disabled by mountain- ocs seas, the Norweglan freighter Betty, 2,449 tons gross was hove 460 miles east northeast of Cape Race, Newfoundland, according to tain Beyer, master of the ship. Word from the stricken freight- er 22 days out of Hull, England, fear was growing that the Betty had gone down in one of the gales that swept the Atlantic the first part of this month. When the weather moderates attompt would be made to effect temporary repairs and reach St, John's, Nfld, The Betty, formerly named Ka- herimaru and Hundvaage, is reg- istered at Bergen, Norway. She was built at the Yoshiura ship- bellding yards in 1910, and {is 1,~ 458 tons register. ------------------ Cardinal Gamba, Archbishop of Turin, Passed Away Today (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Rome, Dec. 26.--Cardinal Gam- ba, Archbishop of Turin, died to- day. His death reduced the Col. lege of Cardinals to 62, of whom 29 aro Itallans and 88 foreign. ors. The archbishop was an old friend of the Royal Family and was called in by both them and the Pope during conipletion of ar- rangements for Crown Prince Humbort's wedding on January 8. It had been expected he would perform the ceremony but hig age and infirmity caused him to decline in fayor of Cardinal Matfi, Arch- bishop of Pisa, Missing Canadian Aviators Are + Found Safe in Arctic Regions Nome, Alaska, Dec, 26--With the safe arrival of a supposedly missing Alaskan pilot and his two passengers at Elephant point on Kotsebue sound, across Seward peninsula from Nome, the northland again turned to the search for Pilot Carl Ben Eielson and Mechanic Earl Borland, uissing since early in November somewhere between Teller, Alaska ,and North Cave, Siberia, Arrival of Pilot Bill Graham and his passengers, W, B, Miller and R. B. Julian, who flew to Elephant point in connection with a huge reindeer drive now under way for the Cana- dian government, was "reported by Pilots Dorbandt and Cope, who flew on Tuesday from Teller, Alaska, to search for them. The party had been forced down by a storm at an isolated point, POLICE ARREST SAFE-BREAKERS Believe Series of Crimes in Winnipeg Has Been Solved Winnipeg, Dee. 26--With the ar- rest last might of John and Peter Stradub, cousins, police believe they have partially blocked a long series of safe breaking episodes that has extended over several weeks. The Stradubs, police state, were caught in the act of cracking a safe in the office of the Swail Brothers Coal Company, Elmwood, The men were said to have admit. ted breaking three other safes in the city and oy they will face at least six charges of theft in city police court, . A search of their room revealed a large quantity of loot, which police claim was stolen from numerous stores, CITY HALL BURNED AT SOREL, QUEBEC Sorel, Que,, Dec. 26.--~The city hall and market place of this city were destroyed by fire today causing a loss estimated at $150,000, The two structures were coms pletely razed as well as several small buildings in the wings of the mar- ket, The fire burned for nearly four hours, Cable Repairs tq Take Two Years Paris, Dec, 26,--Two years may be required to repair ¥ fully the damage caused to the three French cable company lines broken by sub marine earthquakes off Newfound. land on November 18. The three cables were apparently broken in several places, Engineers on the cable ship estimated that 150 miles of new cable would have to be laid to replace the torn and twisted sections, The cost probably will be about $400,000. France Fights Tuberculosis Disease Which Killed Million in 10 Years En (By Josephine Hambleton, aCnadian Press Staff Correspondent) Paris, Dec, 26.--France is battling sharply with tuberculosis, Flaming posters depict the dread enemy as the Minotaur of old, feeding on the youth of the nation, Others give startling life to statistics: *® bh "Four years of war carried off something over a million and a half of men, Ten years of peace a million children." \ For 100,000 children a year are said to dic in France from tuberculosis. In Paris, mortality from tuberculosis is three times as high as in London or Berlin, Cardinal May Retire Vatican Ciyt.--Tevere, Rome daily, today suid Cardinal Gas- parri, papel secretary of state, would leave that post soon and would be succeedde by Cardinal Intensive Campaign Against! D ARE URGENT CHRISTMAS CHEER WORK COMPLETED, BUT NEED FOR RELIEF GREATER THAN EVER Welfare Societies Now Cons centrating on Task of Cars ing for Families in Need of Relief During Winter LARGE SUM OF MONEY WILL BE REQUIRED Citizens Who Have Not Yet Contributed Are Asked to Assist in Supplying Needy Families With the Necess sities of Life The distribution of Christmas Chee to the needy families of Oshe awa is over, Through the gencrosity of those citizens who contributed to the Welfare and Christmas Cheer Fund, over four hundred needy famis lies in Oshawa were supplied with the essentials for a splendid Christmas dinner, and enogh to keep the wolf from the door during the festive seas son, But now that the Christmas Cheer task is over, the Associated Welfare Societies of Oshawa face the still greater and more urgent task, that of providing relief for hundreds of ocal families during the long and hard winter months which lie ahead, There is desperate need in scdres of these cases, need which can only be met by supplying fuel, food and clothe ing in a generous measure, and by the expenditure of a large amount of money, For this reason, although the Christmas Cheer work is over, the task of caring for those in distress still goes on, and the need for finane ces to carry on this work is urgent, So far, the total of the fund is gratis fying but those who are. interesting themselves in the work know only too well that the amount of money available is still far from sufficient for the needs of the situation, So once again, the appeal for contribu~ tions to help those in need, to pros vide food, clothing and fuel for famis lies which have no other means of keeping body and soul, is sent out to the citizens, so that those' who have not yet contributed to the fund may hear the call of their suffering fellow-citizens and may respond in A generous measure, Contributions should be sent a once to T. W. Joyce, treasurer of the fund, at the Dominion Bank, or ta the Office of Times. Following is the list of contribue tions reported up to noon today: Already acknowiedged $8,327.76 Young Men's Class, Simcoe United Church ........... Mr. and Mrs, N. Mutton ..., Camalot Club, Simcoe United® Church Young People's Society, Cen- tre St. United church Marian and Daddy . Inspection Dept. otors the Oshawa Daily in Cry win 83 883:88% 25 & g3 Topping Primary Church Friend ..... Class, Centre St. -- PROHIBITION LAW ENFORCEMENT PLANS ARE BEING PREPARED (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Washington, Dec. 26.--Plans fog prohibition enforcement which ing clude a unified border patrol and lime itation of the number of ports of entry from Canada, will be submits ted by the treasury to congress ag soon as a joint congressional commits tee to consider prohibition questions is named. Paris, Ky.~Three negro children, the oldest 4 years of age, were burne ed to death here yesterday as they slept, their mother being absent on & Pacelli, papal nuncio to Berlin. trip to a grocery store, New York, Dec. 26.--Fifty partici- pants in the festival of Chbistmas were treated in Bellevueyand King's: county hospital's alcoholic wards yes- térday as a result of a 24-hour chase by ambulances all over the city to pick up rum victims, Although many were in a serious condition, surgeons at both institu- tions said the liquor was not poison; but that most of the patients were suffering from alcoholism as a result of overdrinking inferior liquor. Many were discharged after treatment, Thirty-five had been enrolled at Bellevue, Fifteen more were brought New York Hospitals Kept Busy by Alcoholic Cases -- surgeons and private physicians werg in many cases called to private rae sidences to administer 19-year-old schoolboys and octogenarians, Several patients were brought te Bellevue in taxicabs and private cars, A man giving the name of Earl Wilke inson, a broker, of Mount Vern cab and carried into the ward, condition was diagnosed as acute, The paradé, hospital attendants said, started early Tuesday night and continued all through the early hours of the morning until late yess to King's County, while ambulance terday afternoon, when the A Jet up somewhat. mea ---- was taken to the hospitet in a taxis