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The Os Succeeding The Oshawa Daily. Reformer haa Daily Times "All the News While It Is News" . Publishes ot Ushews. Sumdove Jui. Lensda, Every and Public Holiduye OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1930 12 Cents a Week; 3 Cents a Copy FOURTEEN PAGES Plot To Kidnap Editor Los Angeles.--Revelation of an alleged plot to kidnap Harry Chan- dler, owner of the Los Angeles Times and President of the Ameri- can Newspaper Publishers' Associa- tion, was made yesterday by the district attorney's office, . LJ] Escaped Convicts Caught Guelph.--After one day's free dom, Walter White of Gananoque and Clifford Marshall, of Guelph, two inmates who escaped from the Ontario Reformatory, Tuesday eve- ning, are back in custody. The pair were caught on a farm about a mile west of the town: PETERBORO COUNTY FIRES UNDER CONTROL Peterboro, Nov. 13.--Fires in the northern sections of Peterborough and Hastings counties were com- pletely under icontrol today, and most of them had been ®xtinguish- Telephone reports to Canadian Press, from Apsley, Havelock and Tweed brought the same reassur- ing information, which was offici- ally verified by H. W. Crosby, of Tweed, district forester,' HUNDREDS KILL™D IN BURMESE STORM Cyclone Wipes Out" Town, Destroying Every Building London, Nov. 13.--An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Rangoon today reported that hundreds of lives were lost in a cyclone which wiped out ¢he town of Kyauk-Pyu on the west coast of lower Burma, All buildings were reported des.' troyed, trees uprooted and vessels in the harbor carried out to sea. The news agency reported that all communications had. been cut. RESUME PROBE ON FAMOUS PLAYERS ACTIVITIES SOON Commission Now Conduct- ing Private Inquiry Into Theatre Chain (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Ottawa, Nov. 13.--Investiga- tions -into-the operation of the Famous Players Canadian Corpor- ation which have been authorized by the minister of labor, Hon. G. D. Robertson, will be resumed in the course of a few days by Peter White, K.C.;, commissioner ap- pointed under the Combines -In- vestigation Act. It has not yet been determined whether public hear- ings will he held in connection with the inquiry. The first stages of Mr. White's investigations are being carried on in private and consist in an exami- nation of some of the books and documents of the company. Before public hearings are 'decided on the number of theatres' controlled. by the corporation and the nature of its interest in them has to be de- 'termined by private investigation. ENDURANCE FLIGH ENDS IN DISASTER Plane American Legion Crashes, Burns; Refuelling Ship Falls Into Ocean New Yorx, Nov. i340 at- + t to shatter the world's en- A record ended in double misfortune early today when the American Legion burned in a forc- ed landing and its refueling ship, Miss Queen's fell into Jamaica Bay. "Captain John 8. Donaldson, pro- moter and pilot of the endurance ship, was uninjured, but his co- pilot, Edward Weimer, former war flier, suffered a broken ankle and lacerations. WEATHER . Pressure continues high on "the Atlantic Coast and aver the far northwest, wi over. Hudson Bay is moving slowly eastward and another had developed over the western half of the United States, " The weather has turned colder in the western provin- ees with snow in some sec of southern Alberta, 'while from Ontario eastward it continues mild. Forecasts: ' Lower Lake Region i aid Georgian Bay =-- N e southwest winds; fair 'and quite mild. -* Friday -- South snd southwest winds; mostly . probably | 8 TO VICTIMS OF + 'PEOPLE IN TEN HOUSES AND MANY RESCUE WORKERS ARE CATASTROPHE Landslide at Lyons, France, Causes Death to Between 60 and 100 While Many Have Been Taken to Hos- pital Seriously Injured FURTHER SLIDES ARE FEARED TODAY Slide, Caused by Heavy Rains, Sweeps Down Hill- side Taking Many Houses " With It--Little Hope of Finding Buried Victims Alive ®y Canadian Press Leased Wire) Lyons, France, Nov. 13.--Be- tween 60 and 100 persons were es- timated late this afternoon to have been killed in the collapse of ten houses which fell one after an- other during the night under the rushing whirl of a landslide near the Basijea of Notre. Dame de Fourviere, * Firemen and police labored feverishly today removing debris of the houses, hoping to save some of the scores buried beneath the ruins. A landslide down a steep incline which slopes away from the Basi- lica of Notre Dame de Fourviere undermin foundations of the houses 'which' fell in rapid se- quence, one after the other. Resi- dents, most of whom were asleep, were caught unawares, . It may be days, so dangerous is the further work of removal of the debris, before the total number of dead is known, A' score of per- sons, residing on. the edge of the collapsed area, have been taken from - the ruins seriously injured and sent to hospitals. Firemen, Policemen Buried Twenty firemen and seven po- licemen were buried themselves when they were caught in the entangled mass of masonry by the walls of the last building to fall. A new series of landslides and col- lapses sent many tons of earth, stone and brick down upon them, (Continued on page 2) WESTERN FARMERS 70 BOYCOTT SALES OF LAND FOR TAXES Secession Also Advocated as Drastic Remedy for Hard Times ¢ (By Canadien Press Leased Wire) Canora, Sask., Nov. 13.--Or- ganized boycotting of tax, Sheriff and forecloseure sales has been. decided on by farmers of munici- palities in this section of North- east Saskatchewan: as a means of resisting cvictions from land, Farmers of Buchan, Keys, Sliding Mills and Goodlake municipalities passed a resolution taking this stand at a meeting Lere. The gathering was addressed by Anton, Morkin, M.P.P., and Milton N. Campbell, M.P. In pa%sing the resolution calling for resistance' té foreclosures and evictions the meeting went on rec- ord ds protesting against 'tax salse imposed on us by the Saskat- chewan Government through the Department of Municipal Affairs in time of the present capitalist economic crigis cancellation of arrcars of taxes." Advocate Secession Strasbourg, Sask,, Nov, 12,-- Secession of Western Canada from the rest of the Dominion is urged by members of the Last Mountain Provincial Progressive Association, who met Here to. discuss present conditions. The following resolution was passed: "In view of the general economic depregsion and the fact that the solution of this crisis as advocatea by Eastern financial. in- terests is diametrically opposed to the best interest of Western Can- ada, therefore be it resolved, That this associaton favor: a policy whereby Western Canada becomes a separate and distinct unit of the and demanding |. British Commonwealth of ; Na- tions," 4 12 Planés Join Search in North (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Vancouver, B.C., Nov, 13.--A dozen aeroplanes today were en- listed in the quest for half-a-dozen men whose two planes have van- ished in British Columbia's north country. Scven machines are al- ready engaged in the hunt for the lost planes of Capt. E. J. A. Burke and Robin Renahan, Vancouver fliers, and assistance of five United States navy machines is to be add- ed. Borden to Open Winter Fair Toronto.-- Sir Robert Borden will open "the Royal Winter Fair in To- ronto on November 19, One Hundred Thought Killed in French Landslide PARLIAMENT TO AGAIN RULE SPAIN {King Alfonso Approves De- cision to Have First Elec- tion in Eight Years Madrid, Nov. 13.--King Alfonso, presiding at a special cabinet meet- ing today approved the ministry's previous deciston to hold parlia- mentary elections on March 1 for deputies and March 15 for sena- tors. The King's action was interpreted as giving expression of confidence in the Berenguer government, The elections will open the way for Spain's return to parliamentary government. It will be the first time in eight years that sucl elec- tions will be held. The last parliament was dissolv- ed by a royal decree in September, 1923, and a national assembly, which was only a consultative body, was convoked in September, 1927. This national assembly was dissolv- ed in February, 1930, and plans were made to hold general elec- (tions. Conference May Adjourn to Ottawa; No A mr dy To Relinguish Rights in China United States Proposes to Abolish Extra-territorial Privileges (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Washington, Nov, 13--Submission by the United States government of proposals to the Chinese government for the gradual rélinquishment of ex- traterritorial rights in China was announced today by Secretary of Stimson. The proposals are in line with the state department's policy, enunciated last year that the United States was prepared to negotiate on a method for relinquishment of the {treaty rights. At that time, the United States said relinquishment would apply to designated territorial areas in China or to particular kinds of jurisdiction, such as civil or criminal rights held under the treaty. Under these rights, citizens of the United States are not subject to Chinese courts, The condition attached by the Un- ited States to its policy was that it must proceed along with the enact- ment and effective enforcement of laws by China based on modern con- cepts of jurisdiction prudence. The proposals of the United Sta- tes government in the broad sense are based in part on the principal of transfer of jurisdiction in all but specified areas. They are similar to but not identical with proposals by the British government to the Chin. ese in September, The proposals were communicated to Minister Wu of China here and fare'~y minister C. T. Wang at Nan- | king. 2ank Robbed of $11,021 Newark, N.J. ---- Three bandite robbed the Bloomfield Avenue branch of the Merchants and New- ark Trust Company yesterday of $11,021. They were unable to ob- tain $10,000 more, which was in a locked compartment they could not force.' DENIES PLOT WILLIAM T. COSGRAVE President of the Irish Free State, who denies that he was the sub- ject of an assassination plot He admits, however, that his bodyguard was fired on, ¢ ction on Quota (By George Hambleton, Canadian Press Staff Correspondent) London, Nov. 13--Adjournment of the Imperial Conference to next June in Ottawa, is understood to be un- der discussion and the final decision of the empire premiers is expected to he reached tonight. This would mean the conference would follow the session of the dom- inion parliament. The idea to give further expert consideration in the meantime fo methods of developing empire trade, No Decision on Quota There wil be no decision for or against the Wheat quota at the pre- sent conference, This was the semi- official announcement after another four hours discussion by empire pre. miers today, What the Imperial Con: ference will decide remains to be de- termined, It was a day of long discussions and more are to come. At 8.15 Pre- mier Bennett conferred with his Canadian colleagues on the situation, At 9.30 he was closeted with the heads of the other delegations at 10 Downing street and there for four hours. The report of the Graham committee on the wheat quota pur- chasing scheme was under discus- sion. The premiers approved the prin- ciple of the Graham report, which found the wheat quota technically practicable. But that, it is carefully pointed out does not mean either acceptance or rejection of the quota scheme, which would allot the dom- (Continued on Page 3) GIVEN THREE YEARS -- cet ret eet -- MALCOLM STOBIE Senior partner of the firm of Stobie, ¥orlong and Co., who was s®n- tenced to three years at Toronto today, on two charges of fraud. The firm had a branch in Osh- awa before it became bankrupt, » 300 Foreigners Reds Blamed for Ripts in Peru in Which 14 Were Killed (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Lima, Peru, Nov. 13, ---- Three Hundred foreign refugees from the Andean mining fields, jammed like cattle into a three-car railroad train, reached here today from Malpaso, where two United States mining men were killed in Labor riot yesterday. They came into a city whose transportation facilities were par- alyzed. by a general strike, bringing a vivid story of armed clashes in which at least a dozen workmen were killed and more than a score injured. Communist agitators were hlam- ed today by the authorities for the disorders in the Cerro de Pasco copper region. Reports reaching the capital to- day from the departments of Junin and Lima, where martial law has been established. {indicated that fifteen hundred miners, aroused by radical organizers, participated in an attack upon dwellings and shops at Malpso, . 20,000 Miners Strike Oviedo, Spain.--More than 20,000 workers in the coal mines of Astur- fas were on strike today. The re- glon was quiet, Twelve Extra Cash Prizes For Contest. Workers Particulars of How Twelve Extra Prizes Will Be Awarded | Are Announced--75,000 Extra Votes for Each $10.00 Club of Subscriptions This Week--Less Votes Next Week--Extra Prizes Will Be Given Winners Week From Wednesday--Make Sure You Get One The management of the Whitby Gazette and Chronicle and the Oshawa Dally Times is well pleas- ed with the new and renewal sub- scriptions turned in by candidates during the first vote period which came to a close last Tuesday night and the list of twelve extra prizes which is announced today for the best work done during this week and next week will create addition al interest in the big campaign for subscriptions both new and re- newal in the entire' district. Read carefully how the twelve extra cash prizes will be awarded, The sum of $100.00 in the form of twelve extra, cash prizes will be given as an extra incentive to the twelve candidates turning in the most cash for subscriptions' during this week and next week, that is, dating from, last Tuesday night and up until the'close of the offers, one week from next Monday night, Nov. 24th. ' The candidate turning in the most cash on subscriptions for the Gazette and Chronicle and The Oshawa Dally Times during the special offer) will win a $25.00 extra cash' prize, The candidate turning in the second highest am- ount of cash subscriptions during this week, and next week will win an extra prize of $15.00 cash. The third and fourth extra prizes am- ount to $20.00 in cash, that fis, third and fourth place during the two weeks of the special offer, and candidates turning in fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, $10.00 to each candidate who holds. eleventh, and twelfth highest to- tals of cash for subscriptions dur- ing the special offers this week and next week will each win a $6.00 gxtra cash prize. Count On the Big Prizes All subscriptions turned in this week while working for the extra cash prizes will count of course, towards the winning of the choice of free autos and the rest of the grand prizes which will be awarded at the close of the contest which is only a few weeks away, and during this first week of the extra cash offers, a vote ballot good for 75, 000 extra votes will be given each candidate for every $10.00 club of subscriptions turned in. Do not forget that this extra club vote of- fer is a special offer and it posi tively comes to a close next Mon- day night, Nov, 17th. It will not be repeated or extended. It is for this week only and will not be giv- en again during the remainder of the contest. Make A Record Week If you turn in $10,00 worth of subscriptions during this week of the special offer you will be crédit- ed with 75,000 extra club votes. $20.00 worth of subscriptions turn ed In this week and up to the close of the offer next Monday night, Nov. 17th, will credit you with 150,000 extra club votes and $50.. 00 worth ofsubscriptions turnéd in this week will give you a special vote ballot good for 875,000 extra (Continued op page 6), INDIAN LEADERS DISCUSS POLICY Hindus Consent to Naming of Moslem as Chairman of Delegation (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) London, Noy. 13--Delegates to the Indian round table conference step- petl aside today for the remainder of this week and permitted the Im- perial Conference to write the clos- ing chapters of its history and the dominion premiers to get on thelr way back home, The interim between now and the next meeting, Monday, the Indian delegates will use in an effort to reach agreement on policy and bases for negotiations, so that they may act with a united front in parleys with the British representatives, The principal point of difference is the old Moslem-Hindu antagonism but the unanimous choice of the Aga Khan, Moslem leader, as chaiman of the entire British India delega- tion is believed to indicate proof of a conciliatory spirit among the Hin- du majority. : RONTO BROKERS SENT TO PRISON rr ---------- [SENTENCES TOTALLING 22 YEARS METED OUT IN ~~ TORONTO Coal Strike Made F ully Effective (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Glace Bay, N.S., Nov. 13.--The strike at no. 2 colliery, largest pro- ducing coal mine in Canada, which has been tied up since Tuesday, be- came one hundred per cent, effective this morning when the boiler room was picketed and the places of the firemen filled by officials who are also replacing the maintenance men withdrawn last night. The with- drawal recalled memories of the hig strike of 1925, as ft wag the first time for maintenance men to be re- moved from a Cape Breton mine since that time, Ex-Constable's Wife Suicides Toronto, -- Mrs. Elsie Drohan, wife of a former constable of To- ronto, committed sufucide yesterday when she dropped 65 feet from the C.P.R. bridge at Leaside, (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Stratford, Nov, 13.--After stab- bing her eight-yearold daughter in the neck, inflicting serious knife wounds, Mrs, W. 8S. Mills, age 33, sank a knife into her heart and died instantly this morning, Coroer Dr. Maxwell Fraser is In charge and an inquest in all prob- ability will be held. Dr. Fraser stated late this morning that the childr was in a precarious condi- tion and her death is not unexpect- ed. No reason can be advanced for the woman's rash acts, except that ft Is known she has been unwell for some time past and has been in a depressed condition of recent days. The tragedy occurred at the home of Alex, Scrimgeour, father of Mrs. Mills. at whose home she had been living for some time dur- ing the absence of her husband, a marine engineer, The child, Patricia, had been {ll for some time and had been sleep- ing with her mother. Mr. Scrim- geour was awakened this morn- ing,by the child's heavy breathing. He tried the door but it was lock- ed. When he entered the room he found Mrs, Mills standing up fully dressed and with a wound in her neck. She gave her father the correct number of the doctor who had been attending the child. take the knifecmfwyeptaoinhrdlu When the father attempted to take the knife from her, Mrs. Mills collapsed in his arms and dled al- most instantly, SUSPEND SENTENCE Toronto, Nov. 13--James H. H. Ballantyne, suspended deputy minis. ter of labor of Ontario, recently con- victed of stealing a $15 dress from a local women's wear store, was placed on suspended sentence today when he appeared before Judge Denton, HANGING CAUSED MYSTERIOUS DFATH OF SMITHVILLE LAD Did Not Die of Strangulation Post Mortem Examina- tion Reveals (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) St, Catharines, Nov. 13.--Charles Royal Grant, the 12 year old boy who was found hanging from a tree about fifteen feet over the line fence of his foster father's farm near Smithville on Monday night, died from a broken neck, the post mor- tem examination revealed. This fact throws into the discard any theory that the boy was (first strangled and then strung up and indicates that Charles either climb- ed on to the eight foot limb, tied the rope and then jumped off, or that he was thrown from the limb with the rope about his neck. The post mortem shows conclu- sively that death was caused by a fractured neck and was instantan- eous. All indications usually pres- ent in strangulation were missing. There was no congestion, none of the signs which indicate strangula- tion only the fracture of the neck, pointing to a sudden drop and in- stant death. pl Despondent Mother Stabs Child Then Kills Herself Britain Acts As a Mediator Effort Made to Bring Oppos- ing Factions Together at Parley (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Geneva, Switzerland, Nov, 13,-- The preparatory disarmament com- mission struggled through a con- fused session today without reach- ing any conclusion on the problem of how to limit land and war ma- terial, . The sitting was adjourned in the midst of consideration of +a British resolution which sought to summarize conflicting attitudes in the commission and after a rather sharp exchange between Lord Cecil. the British delegate and Maxim Litvinoff, the Russian one. The British resolution, the first two sections of which were adop- ted almost unanimously, read: "The Commigsion (1) Approves the principle that there should be the fullest possible interchange of information respecting armaments between parties to the' proposed convention; (2)Records the de- sire of most of the members of the commission to find some method which will provide for limitation of war material in a more. precise | manner than can be achieved by ON DEPUTY MINISTER publicity alone; (3) Recegnizes that a majority of the commission are of the opinion that as to land war material the most practical method of securing this more pre- cise limitation is by budgetary limi- tation, that other members of the™ commission are of the opinion that the most practical method is by direct limitation by specific enu- meration of the two methods." Voting on the third section was postponed in order to give Lord Cecil time to adjust defects to sev- eral suggestjons, The British spokesman said the purpose of his resolution was to determine exactly where the com- mission stood so that its opinions might be transferred to the text of the draft convention, SHOOTS FAMILY WHILE THEY SLEEP Lawyer Kills Three Children, Seriously Wounds Wife, Then Suicides (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Uniontown, Pa., Nov, 13,--Three childretn were shot and killed to- day by their father, R. H, Playford, 556, a prominent Uniontown lawyer and banker, who theh killed him- self, apparently while suffering un- der the delusion that the family was facing poverty. Playford's dite was wounded, probably fatally. The dead, besides the father, are Nancy Playford, 13, Margaret, 10, and Pauuline 9, Playford fired shots into the heads of his vietims ak they slept, and then turned his pistol upon himself. COURT TODAY Senior Partners Four Firms Receive Three Years in Jail; Junior Part. ners Get Two Years and Six Months t SIX BROKERS ARE ° ENTERING APPEALS Stobie, Forlong, Paterson, Campbell, Smart and Young All Trying to Have Convictions Quashed . (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Toronto, Nov. 13.--Eight Toron« to brokers will spend a total of 22 years in prison following the im- position of sentences by Mr. Justice Jeffery in the assizes today. The proceedings marked the close of the criminal trials on various charges of conspiracy of members of five large Toronto mining brok- erage houses whose prosecutions was instigated by the Ontario gov« ernment last winter as a result of their stock exchange operations, Appeals against the convictions have been entered by, with the exe ception of two cases in which the brokers pleaded guilty. James Heppleston and W, T. H, Shutt, of the Arthur E., Moysey Brokerage Company who had pre« viously pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy, were sentenced to terms of three years, and two years and six months, respectively. Appeals, however, are being maagq against the convictions of William J. Smart and Maurice E., Young, of the Homer L. Gibson and Com+ pany, who were convicted on charges of conspiracy to refraud the public and of fraudulent purchase and sale of stocks, Smart was sens tenced to three years in penitentis ary while Young was given a term of two years and six months. Stobje, Forlong Appeal D. 8 Campbell, an Austin Campbell, of the firm of D, 8. Pate erson and Company, who were cone victed on two counts of conspire acy to defraud the public by false pretences, are also appealing against the convictions, as are Male colm .Stobte and Charles J. Fore long, of the defunct firm of Stobie, Forlong and Company, who were found guilty on similar charges. Paterson was sentenced to three years on the first count and two years on the second, while Campbell received two years and six months on the first and two years on the latter, Stobie was given a similar sentence to that of Paterson while IForlong, whose counsel claimed he had little or nothing to do with the actual business transactions, receive ed two years and six months on the first count and two years on the second, the sentences to rum cone cuurrently. The prisoners were all released on renewal of their bail, except Heppleston and Shut who left the court to commence their terms, Time spent in jail while awaiting their trials will be included in the sentences. & The arrests, trials, convictions and sentences of the eight men today was the result of the ine vestigation and subsequent raids on the leading Toronto mining brokerage houses by the attorneye general's department, last winter, The action by the department alsg resulted in charges against I. W. Solloway and Harvey Mills, of Solloway, Mills Company and who on Oct, 29, were fined $200,000 and $560,000 respectively, Three other members of the various firms wore also arrested but were acquit ted on similar charges on which the brokers were sentenced today, Committed For Murder Chatham. -- Thomas Cracknell, aged 26. of Harwich, was yetsere day, at & preliminary hearing 'af Blenheim, committed for trial by Magistrate S. B. Arnold on charge of the murder of his wite, Alice, aged 22. on the night, of No« vember 4, He will be tried at thq February Assizes here. TWO KILLED WHEN AUTO IS DITCHED (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Windsor, Nov, 13.--Mrs. Belle Northrop, of Kast Windsor and Howard Corbett, 16, of Riverside, wero almost instantly killed this morning when the auto in which ° they Wolo Pussengery went into a ch on wa fitch 8 Y 18 east of Bellg Thoy were members of a a of six In a small roadster 25d rumble seat, and were on the way home from Toronto where they in had visited relatives, driven all glsht. They ny A»