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"All the Ith News" The Os Succeeding The Osh awa Daily Reformer awa Daily Times A Growing Newspaper in a Growing City VOL. 6--NO. 32 Every OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1930 15 Cents a Week; 3 Cents a Copy TWELVE PAGES Eh ,-D k News in Brief i (By .anadian Press) BC i aC 3 Shot After Praying St. Louis, Mo.--Henry E. Mue- hlenbeck, 43, a grocer, and religi- - ous. enthusiast, was shot dead after he had knelt in prayer for three bandits who entered his store. t * » * British Peer Dies London. --The third Earl of Lath- om, who spent great sums of money assisting others to produce plays, but never financed the production of the 'many plays he wrote himself, died today at the age of 34 years, Prolong Suicide Canipbellford.--Coroner's inves- tigations had failed to reveal a mo- tive for the suicide of Clifford Drew, 19-year-old English immi- grant, who shot himself in the home of Miss Sarah Stillman, Sey- mour Township West, where he had been working. " LJ Montreal Broker Held Montreal.--Acting on orders of the Attorney-General of Quebec, Provincial detectives raided the of- fice of J. Juneau and Co., mining brokers, this morning. W. Juneau, head of the firm, was arrested, % LJ LJ] Conductor Killed Sudbury.--Charles Seadon, 48, conductor, of Winnipeg, was in- stantly killed, and Edward Alma- gro, 37, heated car attendant, of Montreal, seriously injured when two freight trains collided while switching in the Hornepayne yards in a dense fog. - LJ] Two Children Drowned Three Rivers.--Simonne Guil- bault, 10 years old, and Camile Guilbault, 8 years old, both child- ren of Honore Guilbault, St. Marthe Cap de la Madeleine, were drowned yesterday in the St. Lawrerice when their small sleigh went through the ice. asa To Contest Mayoralty Picton.--A. E, Calnan, editor of the Picton Gazette, has resigned as councillor to become a candidate for the mayor's chair, made vacant by the death 'of the late Edmund Peeling, who died three weeks after taking office. * * » Yardman Killed North Bay.--F. E, Dunn, 31, T. and N.O. yardman at Cochrane, was instantly killed there last night when he fell under a moving line of cars. One car and the tender of the engine passed over him, = wv Ld Make New Customs Pact Cape Town, South Africa.--A new customs agreement has been concluded" between the Union of South Africa and Rhodesia, Hon. N. C. Havenga, Finance Minister in the South African Government. \ * LJ Sent to Penitentiary Orillia.--Walter Adams, aged 28, was sentenced to two years at Kingston penitentiary by Police Magistrate McCaughrin when he was found guilty of obtaining goods under false pretences from Orillia merchants by passing worthless cheques. » * * Ld Dies of Injuries Toronto.--Edwin Edwards, of Stop 12, Lake Shore Road, died at St. Joseph's Hospital last night from injuries received in a motor car accident on.the Lake Shore Road near Queen Street on Jan, 24, Coroner J, H. CcConnell is investi- gating. *® * * Bites Police Chief Barrie.--Police dogs are no re- specters of persons, mot even of the police themselves, as was dem- onstrated when one of the breed dashed up behind Chief of Police Alex. Stewart and seized him by the coat tails. The outraged chief constable threatened his assailant and was immediately clutched by the leg. % * * Struck By Auto Richmond Hi]l.--Struck by =a car as he was walking across Yonge Street at 8 o'clock last night, H. Crickett, Lansing, received a shak- ing up and slight scratches. Ken: neth Giles of Newmarket, driver of the car, was not held. * x x Accidentally Shot Hamilton, -- Stanley Kramer, two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Kramer, who lives near Bow- man Church, R.R. No. 1, Ancaster, died last night in St. Joseph's Hospital a few hours after a bul- jet from a rifle held by an older brother penetrated his brain. The weapon was ~ discharged during lay. oy, * % * Store Robbed Four Times Cornwall.--For the fourth time bandits descended on M. M. Mul- hern in his grocery store at 433 Pitt Street here last evening and for the fourth time were successful in their raid. Three men, armed with revolvers, pushed through his doors and held him in a corner, They escaped in an automobile parked nearby. -WEATHER Local snowfalls have occurred in Ontario, while elsewhere the weather has been Jase. It is decidedly cold from Ot- tawa Valley eastward, while it has become milder in On- tario and continues mild in the west, Pressure is low to the northward over Ontario and off the South Atlantic Fate of Eight Men Still in Mine is in Doubt, But Little Hope Is Held Out for Safety TWENTY BODIES ARE RECOVERED Cause of Explosion Which Filled Mine With Deadly Gas Is Unknown--Rescue Crews at Work Salt Lake City, Feb. 7.--Eighteen mine workers were dead today and the fate of eight others was un- known as rescue crews delved into the lower pockets of a coal mine at Standardville, Utah, following a ter- rific explosion which rocked the mountain side late last night and crumbled the walls of the mining tunnels. Of the 18 bodies located in the various slopes of the mine, 16 had been identified. Four men escaped a- live. The dead -are: Angus Barney, R. T. Springer, J. L. Jensen, Carlyle Smith, Roy Briggs, T. L. and F. P. Pritchett, brothers; William McGuire, Tobe Wimber, Frank L. James, C. Brady, Udell Fowees, J. D, Duke, Barney Johnson, William Watson and Claw- son Elliott. Four Escaped Those rescued alive were Rubio Monroe, Andy Dougherty, Gerald Banasky and an unidentified man who was overcome by monoxide gas which flooded the mine after. the ex- plosion, The bodies were not imme- diately taken from the mine, rescue crews leaving them to search deep- er in the workings in hopes of find- ing additional men alive. The cause of the terrific blast was not determined, but the men who es- caped and mine officials believed that the deadly gas made it virtually im- possible for any of the remaining eight men in the mine to escape, un- less by accident. Gave Life for Brother Dougherty, one of the four men to escape said the explosion was deaf- ening and that the walls of the tun- nel crumbled. He said T. L. Prit- chett, one of the men found dead, was working in the main tunnel of the mine with Rubio, Banasky, Prit- chett and the other man who was rescued alive, but when the explo- sion occurred he dashed deeper in- to the mine to rescue hi§ brother, F. H. Pritchett and never returned. His body was found later by the res- cuers. . Dougltery said that in their flight from the mine Rubio, Banasky and he were forced to crowd between piles of debris shaken from the walls of the cavern by the blast. He said gas fumes immediately filled all parts of the mine. Rescue crews recruited from the day workers, immediately rushed in- to the mine to search for those en- tombed and the air system, damaged by the blast, was again placed in working order and soon cleared the mine of gas. Four ot the eight workers still in the mine were working in a compart- ment which officials said would not likely escape the fumes. State mine officials and officers of the Stand- ard Coal Company, owners of the mine, left Salt Lake City immediate- ly for the scene of the dsiaster and assumed charge of the rescue crews. As news of the blast spread, rela- tives of the victims gathered and Jratched with anxious eyes as the were carried from the mine. ------ Five More Rescued Salt Lake City, Feb, 7.--Five of WILL INCREASE THE PENALTIES New Legislation Will Give Magistrates Much Wider Powers (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Toronto, Feb. 7.--Legislation enabling a magistrate to cancel the driver's permit of any person con- victed on a charge of driving a car while intoxicated for any period from three months to one year, will be introduced at the present session of the provincial legisla- ture. At the present time the max- imum cancellation period is three months, Hon. G. S. Henry, minister of Highways. will introduce the bill some time during the early part of the session. The change will be made through an amendment to the Highways Improvement Act, giving wider powers to magistrates to deal with traffic offenders. Scales of fines for other offences, includ- reckless driving, also will be In- creased. The jall term for drunk drivers will not be changed it being a federal matter under the criminal code, Egypt Is Ready To Negotiate With Britain date by Chamber of Deputies Cairo, Egypt, Feb, 7.--~The Egyp- tian chamber of deputies last night granted Prime Minister Nahas Pasha a mandate to negotiate with the Bri- tish government on the basis of the new 'British proposals for Egypt, which were announced last August. After a debate last night the prime minister said the efforts of those secking the country's independence would be stimulated. He was glad to be able to say a real spirit of friend- ship now existed between Egypt and Great Britain and he had a strong hope he said that a new agreement would result from the negotiations. "When the spirit of justice reigns, agreement is possible, and this, Thank God, exists on both sides," he concluded. ein BEATTY ANNOUNCES CP.R. STOCK SPLIT Montreal, Feb. 7.--Announce- ment that Canadian Pacific Rail- way common stock will be split four for one was made formally to- day by E. W. Beatty, K.C., presi- dent of the company. Laborite Elected London.--Labor retained the Brightside Sheffield, seat last night when a Laborite was elected to the e of Commons in succession to"A, W. Ponsonby, Laborite, who had been elected in the general election and had subsequently been elevated to the peerage. the entombed miners in the Stand- ard Coal Company's mine at Stan- dardyille, Utah, were rescued alive today. Toronto, Feb, 7.--Battering the mercury down to a new low for the season in many Ontario cities, hammering all of Eastern Canada with biting north and east gales and showering snow generously over the country, Winter sledged out a victory yesterday. . Highways in all parts of the Province remain passable but side- roads through Western Ontario are blocked by the latest snowfalls and high winds, Northern Ontario squeaked and groaned in temperatures as low as 48 degrees below zero, this being registered at Hornpayne and var- fous other centres,' Woodstock had Old Man WinterAgain Holds Ontario in Grip of Zero Weather the coldest night in the southern part of the Province, thermometers there showing 20 below. Comparative relief came to some cities early last evening. In Lon- don, light rain fell but froze as it hit the strects, coating windshields and pavements, jeopardizing traf- fie. In Orillia, a store-keeper cap- tured a mosquito in front of his shop and is exhibiting it to the wondgring populace. The insect's attractions are increased by the fact that Orillia in the Summer wages bitter warefare against the tribe, even having a civic commit- tee to slay the breed. Former President Had Good Night (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Washington, Feb. 7.--Attend- ants at the home of William How- ard Taft sald today the former chief justice and president of the United States spent a "very satis- factory night." Mr. Taft rested unusually well throughout the night. Blows Struck InS. A. Senate Senator Knocks One of Op- MISSING IN PARIS position Members Unconscious (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Cape Town, Union of South Af-| rica, Feb. 7.--The calm 'atmosphere of the senate here was broken to-, day when Senator T. Boydell, for- | mer minister of Labor, knocked T. S. Warwick, a member of the oppo- sition, unconscious with a blow on the chin. The incident took place when Boy- dell asked Warwick to apologize for an alleged blow Warwick struck Boy dell at an election meeting in Dur- ban. Boydell said that Warwick re- fused to apologize and pushed his away. He denied that he struck the first 'blow, Warwick recovered consciousness in an adjoining committee room and was removed to a nursing home for observation, Would Battle Wave of Crime Chicago Business Men Would Take Drastic Action (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Chicago, Feb, 7.--With big business becoming alarmed over way of crime in Chicago, the meet- ing of the executive committee of the Association of Commerce today developed into a crime clinic. Aroused by the shooting of Philip H. Meagher, superintendent of construction for a contractor, business men voiced their demand that 'something must be done." James B, Forgan, vice-president of the First National Bank, said he had talked with a score of his friends and all agreed 'that con- ditions wete terrible." "I think and am supported in the idea, that Chicago should make real war on the criminals by going outside the police force. We should establish a sort of Scotland Yard; not as part of the police depart- ment but to work in connection with it. We could train a hundred or a hundred and fifty young men and put them to work to drive the crooks and killers out of the city, as well as ferret out the authorities who are aligned with the gang- sters," Job to Start Toronto.--Orders to commence work at once on the duplicate waterworks tunnel were given the Rayner Construction Cg: pany yes- terday afternoon by R. C. Harris, commissioner of works, NEW PROFESSOR ss ASSUMES QUEEN'S CHAIR Dr. John Wyllle, who will arrive from Gasgow in May to assume the chair of preventative medicine and ublic health at Queen's University, ingston, to which he has just been KIDNAPPER OZARIST LEADER, Gen. Alexander Koutiepoff, chief of Russian exiles in Paris and for- mer leader of counter revolution. ary campaign, who has mysteri- ously disappeared in France. It it feared Soviet egents are tak- ing him to Russia for trial and execution, ~-- Cop) 1930, ie and Ati vce To: IMPORTANT PLAN BEFORE CONFERENCE U. S. Proposals Provide Con- crete Basis for Naval Reduction (By George Hambleton, Canadian Press Staff Correspondent) London, Feb, 7.--From dry tech- nicalities delegates to the naval conference today swung to concrete proposals advanced by the United States. Until these proposals have been fully examined there is an in- disposition to comment on them. The proposals have yet to be form~ ally brought before the conference. But among those in close touch with the conference proceedings the American proposals are wel- comed as constructive; as offering a basis on which subsequent agree- ment may well be based. The principal points of the pro- posals are thus outlined: (1) Reduction in the number of American 8-inch gun cruisers from 21, the number stipulated in the Anglo-American parity agree- ment, to 18, (2) Reduction--and this is de- scribed as highly important--in the spread of cruiser tonnage as between Great Britain and the 'Un- ited States. The spread in the parity agree- ment was 24,000 tons, the British total being 339,000 tons and the (Continued on Page 2) SEVERE WINTER HITS NORTHERN EUROPE Parts, Feb. 7.--The heaviest snow of the winter blanketed Paris and Northern France today. It was accompanied by freezing wea- ther which now is spreading ove Northern Europe, endangering fruit trees, bushes and which had budded prematurely during the long weeks of spring- like warmth, Missing Seamen Brought to Port Vigo, Spain, Feb. 7.-~After.be- ing given up for lost 11 members of the fishing smack Maria Del Carmen arrived here today aboard the Tercers. Republica, which res- cued them at great risk during the latter days of January when their own craft sank. Families of the men gave over tog reat rejoicing and a special mass was held at the 1 flowers |, Iron Ore Bounty Bill Introduced (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Toronto, Feb, 7.--Heralding the development of a steel industry which wil 1soon become one of the biggest projects in Northern Cn- _|tario, the bill proposing a one cent bounty on iron ore produced in On- tario was yesterday introduced in- to the legislature by Premier Fer- guson, Liner's Engine Breaks Down Steamer Montrose on Way to Liverpool Under Re- duced Speed (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Liverpool, Feb. 7--The British li- ner Montrose, Saint John, N.B., for Liverpool, has notified her owners that one of her engines has broken down and that she is continuing for Liverpool under reduced speed. The message read: "880 miles west of Inishtrahull(Ir eland) 1.00 p.m, Thursday, Starboard engine gear bro ken down, high pressure and low and intermediate wheels tdeth bro- ken. Steaming at a rate of ten knots with port engine." The ship's owners said the vessel would reach Liverpool on Feb. 10. (The Montrose, 9,824 tons sailed from Saint John, N.B, on Feb. 1, | for Liverpool.) MANY SUSPECTS IN ASSASSINATION HELD IN MEXICO Man Who Fired Shot at President Has Defiant Attitude (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Mexico City, Feb, 7.--Police and military authorities last night held approximately a score of persons un- der arrest after a joint investigation of the attempted assassination of President Ortiz Rubio shortly after the inaugural ceremonies Wednes- ay. ho Daniel Flores, the well-dressed quiet young man who fired six shots from a .38 calibre pistol into the pre- sidential limousine, wounding the president in the cheek ahd jaw, was constantly questioned during the day at the military prison. The military authorities endeavored to get at the bottom of what they believed to have been a well prepared plot against Or- tiz Rubio. Flores maintained a defiant atti- tude and insisted that he alone had planned and executed the assassina- tion attempt. POPE PIUS RECEIVES AUSTRIAN MINISTER Vatican City, Feb. 7.--Pope Pius XI today received Chancellor Scho- ber of Austria and the minister ot Austria to the Holy See in private audience. For twenty minutes af- ter the audience, the chancellor was allowed to browse in the Pope's private library, after which he re- entered the quarters of the Pope and presented his entourage. For the third time in his Canadian career "Dr," A. E, Hall is in the * tolls of Toronto police. A hotel bill, alleged as unpaid, is said to be the latest cause for arrest. Mr. Hall is well-known in cultural and police circles in western . Canada, having been arrested six times in Vancouver within appointed. Shurah in honor of the homecom- ng. : . two years on charges involving fraud and false pretences, BRITISH PROPOSALS ARE QUTLINED GENERAL MOTORS PLAN NEW MOVE Extend Securities Scheme to Younger Executives (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) New York, Feb. 7.--Directors of the General Corporation have au- thorized the calling of a special meeting of the stockholders for March 5 to consider a plan to ex- tend the participation in the pro- fits of the company by men occupy- ing important managerial positions in the organization. It is proposed to form a new cor- poration, the General Motors Man- agement Corporation, to take the place of the Managers Securities Co., which was formed in 1923. The new corporation would have a capitalization of $50,000,000 of common stock and $50,000,000 of authorized seven year serial bonds. General Motors would sell to the new corporation approximately 1,375,000 shares of General Motors common stock at $40 a share. As authorized by stockholders in 1927, this stock has been gradually accu- mulated by the corporation, at an average price substantially below $40 a share. About 80 General Motors executives have participated in the present Managers Securities plan, and the new plan is designed to admit a widening circle of the organizations' executive staff, in- cluding many of the younger mem- bers, Serious Blaze At CampBorden This Morning Quarters of Officers and Men Destroyed by Fire (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Ottawa, Feb. 7.--Fire early this morning completely destroyed the Royal Canadian Air Force training station at Camp Borden, Ont., the department of national defence was informed by long distance! tele- phone. The camp fire department succeeded in preventing the spread of the fire to adjacent buildings and to the aeroplane hangars a short distance away. Three hundred men are without mess quarters as a result of the fire, but are being taken care of by the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals which has a small building on the ground. No information was received as to how the fire started. An inves- tigation into the origin of the fire will be held by the department. Will Shipping Menaced (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Norfolk, Va., Feb. 7.--A warn- ing has been broadcast by the Hy- drographic Office notifying ship- masters that an iceberg had been sighted off Newfoundland in lati- tude 45.07 north, and longitude 48.02 west. The warning describes the iceberg as of gigantic propor- tions. It is said that this is the | tirst time since 1912 that icebergs have been sighted as early in the year. Most of them are seen from March to June and July. It was in 1912 that the transatlantic liner Titantic was sunk after colliding with an iceberg. By Huge Iceberg|z:: Britain and U.S. Are Practically in Agreement Eighteen Coal Miners Are Killed in Explosion TERRIFIC BLAST WRECKS MINING TUNNELS IN UTAH; ONLY FOUR MEN ESCAPED GREAT PROGRESS MADE AT NAVAL CONFERENCE WITHIN LAST TWENTY-FOUR HOURS Ramsay MacDonald Issues Memorandum Which Has Approval of Delegates From Dominions AGREEMENT NEAR ON IMPORTANT POINTS Aim Not Only to Reduce Ex- isting Fleets, but Also to Put an End to Competi- tion in Armaments (By George Hambleton, Canadian Press Staff Correspondent) London, Feb, 7.--Twenty-four hours after the United States had submitted the first concrete pro- posals before the great five-power naval conference, Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald this afternoon issued a memorandum giving the British government's policy. The memorandum had been sub- mitted to and approved by all the dominions delegations and there- fore represented 'the policy of the entire British Commonwealth, It proposed: (1) That the general agreement resilting from the present confer- ence should run till 1936, and a further conference should be call- ed in 1935 to review the situation. (2) That agreement should be not only upon global tonnage-- the. entire tonnage allotment for each power--but also upon the size of the individual ships in the various categories, and also upon the to- tal tonnage to be used by each na- tion in each of these classes. (3) That the classes should be (a) capital ships; (b) aircraft carriers; (c) cruisers; (d) destroys ers; (e) submarines. (4) That agreement - by cate gories is necessary in order to ob- tain the elimination of competitive building and to secure maintenance of equilibrium of fleet against fleet. (5) That it might be convenient to allow a percentage of tonnage assigned to the various categories to be transferred to other categor- ies, but the British government does not favor general right of transfer from one class to another. It 1s opposed to transfer in regard (Continued on Page 2) Reports Claim British Cabinet (Change Coming Separate Secretaries To Be Named for Colonies and Dominions London, Feb. 7. --According to some newspapers Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald has decided to separate the officers of the secretary oi state for the dominions and sec- retary of state for the colonies, at present both occupied by Lord Pass- e Vernon Hartshorn, member of parliament, would become secretary for the colonies as soon as the Si- mon commission, of which he is a member, has rendered his report on Indian statutory revision, according to comment. It has not yet been settled who would become secretary for the do- minions when Lord Passefield re- ures, as he has been anxious to do for some time. Premier MacDonald would like to fill this vacancy by the promotion of some minister who is not yet in the cabinet, it is stated, but the law limiting the number of secretaries of state in the House of Commons is a stumbling block. ; Regina, Feb, 7.----Canada's new Minister of Finance stands for a moderate tariff with gradual ad- justments. In his first speeh since he suc- ceeded the late Hon. J. A. Robb, Hon. Charles Dunning last night in his home constituency in the centre of the low-tariff West, declared for a tarriff as low as possible having due regard to the interests of the producers, consumers and industry generally." ; Beyond this cautions reference, he gave no hint as to what his first New Finance Minister Announces Policy For Moderate Tariffs budget would contain. He praised the tariff board for its painstaking work, attacked the high tariff stand of the Conservatives and maintain-* ed that Canada was in a better general condition today because of its moderate tariff that Australia and the United States with their high protection barriers, The first Westerner to hold the finance portfolio was the guest of his constituents at a banquet mark ing his promotion. Hon. T. A. Cre rar, the new Minister of Health, also spoke. ---- - Lp es