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'A Growing Newspaper in a Growing City ' The Oshawa Daily Tones Succeeding The Oshawa Daily Reformer 'All the News While It Is News" VOL. 7--NO. 138 Published af Jshews Ust vg Hertel aos aan Jui: pranaty, ews OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1930 12 Cents a Week; 3 Cents a Copy TWELVE PAGES News in Brief + (By Cenpdien Press) Pleads Guilty to Theft ' Lindsay,--In orice court James Edward Lytle, aged 18 years, was sentenced by Magistrate Jordan to six months determinate and one year indeterminate in the Ontario Reformatory, when he pleaded guilty to a theft from Duxbury's store, Eldon Towimip last night. Killed on Train Ituna, Sask.--Investigating the stoppage of the automatic coal stoker on the tender of their loco- motive, the engine crew of a Cana- dian National Railways train dis- covered the body of Paul Jankovich of Foiwiller Sask, Plan Five-Day 'Week Toronto.--Institution of a five- day a week for mechanics, helpers and laborers in the service of the Board of Education will be tried as an experiment next year, if the rec- ommendation made by the property committee yesterday is approved by the board. Ld L Ld Killed Two Children Chicago.---Police saved Frank A. Beukema, 53, from a crowd of angry residents of the suburb of Bellwood to-night, after Beukema's car had run through a crowd of children killing two and injuring three, Ld Ld w Only Skeleton Left Blyth, Eng.--Nothing but a smouldering skeleton remains of the old Canadian Pacific. liner Empress of Scotland, wrecked by a roaring fire fed by 300 tons of oil. © * LJ Stolen Goods Recovered Toronto,~+Early this morning, Sergeant of Detectives Mulholland and Detective Sergeants George Tuft, Patrick Hogan, Alan Alexand- er and Fred Skinner recovered $8,000 worth of furs from two gar- ages in the city. These have been identified as those stolen from Stan Walker's fur store, 536 Queen Street west, over the week-end. » - a Legion Helps Unemployed Toronto.--At the regular month- ly meeting of the Western. District Branch of the Canadian Legion, Post 59, éach member last night pledged himself to donate $3, or more in the aid of unemployment relief. In addition to this more than $150 was collected for jm. mediate use. \ LJ - * Relief Work Halted Sault Ste, Marie, Onte--Owing to soft weather, some 200 men, most of whom were already employed and the remainder scheduled to ac- cept jobs on sewer and creek di- version work here this week, have * - Seek Missing Trappers Fort William --A last search for two Indian trappers, missing since early November, was under way with the police hunting for the mis- sing boat of the men who set out to cross Sawyer's Bay on Lake Sup- erior in the Jace of a storm. Two Killed in Explosion Toulouse, France.-----~Two women probably fatally injured in an ex- plosion which destroyed a cart- ridge filling shop at the National Munition works here yesterday. BROCKVILLE ARSON CHARGE DISMISSED (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Brockville, Dec. 12.--In county court here today, Judge Reynolds, » dismissed the charge of arson against Fred Matthews the former chief of Brockville Fire Depart. ment after four witnesses had been heard and before the case had gone to the jury. Matthews was given an honorable discharge. BRITISH VESSEL [5 ABANDONED Seven Members of Crew Picked Up Swedish Steamer (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) New York, Dec. 12.--The Swed- fsh freighter Strassa reported this morning in a message picked up by the Radio Marine Corporation, that it was proceeding to Boston with seven members of the crew of the British schooner Amy A. McKean picked up last night. The crew of the schoner, bounl from Swansea .to Halifax,. N.S, abandoned the vessel full of water and set fire to it as a menace to navigation, the radiogram said. WEATHER Pressure is high north of . Lake Superior and in the west ern states and low on the Brit- ish Columbia coast with mod- erate . depressions in On- tario and Nova Scotia. Mod. erate falls of snow or rain have occurred from Ontario to, the Maritimes while in the western provinces the weather has been fair, It is becoming colder over Manitoba and the Great Lakes. Forecast: Lower Lake and Georgian-Bay: Fresh to strong northerly winds: colder to- night and Saturday: with local snowfalls or furrics, i His Body Riddled With Bullets, Slain by Men Sus- pected of Having Stolen Automobile ASSAILANTS ESCAPE BUT ONE CAPTURED Harry Clarkson of Windsor, Arrested in Cemetery at Weston Seven and a Half Hours After Tragedy (By Canadian Prcas Leased Wire) Toronto, Dec, 12--Fifteen hours after Roy McQuillin, a Toronto po- liceman had been ruthlessly murdered by motor car thieves, Harry Clarkson, Windsor, appeared in police court charged with murder, while hundreds of police scoured the farmlands of York and Peel counties to the north- west of Toronto in a search for Clarkson's companion, believed to be Jack. Brockenside, also of Windsor. Throughout the night and this morning Toronto's suburbs have been the scene of the most Systematic manhunt in the history of the city. Led by Brig.-Gen. D. C, Draper, chief of police, 600 constables have combed the countryside with Brockenshire as their quarry but early this afternoon had failed to locate their man, Ru- mors that the hunted man bleeding from a wound suffered when he was shot by_a fellow constable Roy Hal- iburton, had been seen in various places were investigated without re- sult. At 2 o'clock posses converged on a house in Peel county where it Clarkson, a small-sized young man betrayed no sign of emotion when he appeared before Magistrate Browne and was charged with she major crime, His haeds manacled and with burly police constables on either side, Clarkson uttered no sound throughout the brief proceed- ings. The magistrate asked for no plea, "You will be remanded until December 19" he told the prisoner. Meanwhile members of the police commission took steps to provide for the family of the victim of the cold-blooded slaying. Mrs. Mec- Quillin will receive about $4,000 from the police benefit fund, but a proposal by Mayor Bert 8S. Wemp calls for the supplementing of this sum, possibly by a pension. Con- troller W. D, Robbins intends to move a resolution in the board of control requesting the police com- mission to consider the advisabili- ty of a pension for Mrs, McQuillin and her two young children. No trace of the hunted man was found in the Peel County house and the detachment of police were imme- diately rushed to Oakville where Chief of Police Kerr reported a sus- picious character had taken refuge in a bush north of the Dundas highway. The Oakville chief thought the man answered to the description of Brockenshire and ordered him to stop. He broke away, however, and Kerr fired two shots one of which is believed to have wounded the sus- ect. y Watching at Border Windsor, Dec, 12.--Border po- lice are guarding all roads leading (Continued on page 2) CONSTABLE SLAIN ON DUTY; ONE OF SUSPECTS CAUGHT; SECOND IS STILL AT LARGE Police Hunting Second Man in Toronto Murder Constable Roy McQuillen, | AUSTRALIAN LABOR DEFIES MINISTRY Government Adopts Ortho- ment of 72 Cents a Bushel to Wheat Growers (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Canberra, Australia, Dec. 12--A re- solutions asking legislation for an in- itial payment of 72 cents a bushel to Australian wheat-growers, was pass- ed by the caucus of the Australian Labor party yesterday over the pro- test of the Federal Labor cabinet. The figure is above the present world price and the caucus apparent- ly intends to place responsibility of refusing the necessary funds upon the Commonwealth Bank. The bank had formerly agreed to a maximum ad- vance of 48 cents a bushel fob, and the cabinet under pressure proposed to advance 00 cents a bushel, Legislature ure Is Adjourned Approval Is Given to Gov- ernment's Unemploy- ment Measure (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Quebec, Dec, 12.--Royal ap- proval was placed on the govern- ment unemployment measure by which Quebec may take advantage of the Dominion government un employment grant, yesterday, and the Quebec Legislature adjourned for the Christmas recess, to con- vene again on January 7. Under the bill, which was signed by Hon H. G. Carrooll, Lieutenant-Gov- ernor, the municipalities, may go ahead with relief works during the winter, the necessary money being provided by the dominion and provincial governments and the municipalities themselves, The debate on the reply to the speech from the throne was concluded yesterday. New Aerial Route Includes Canada (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Ottawa, Dec. 12.--Preliminary plans fer aviation routes that will make Canada an effective factor in intornational aerial communica- tions involving both Europe and Asla, were announced here today at the conclusion of a conference between post office officials of Canada and the United States, T*o first step in the program has been taken with the definite decision to put into effect an aerial link be- tween Winnipeg and St. Paul and Minneapolis. (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) London, Dee. 12.--The question of rights of minorities still holds the stage behind the scenes of the Indian round-table conference. Today the Sikhs, who are anx- fous about the measure of repre. sentation trey will receive in Ine dia's new constitution, interviewed Rights of Minorities Big Question At Indian Round Table Conference Prime Minister Ramsay MacDon- | ald, conference chairman, at No. 10 Downing street. At Chequers, the Prime Minis- ter's country home, Premier Mac- Donald tomorrow will entertain 30 vepresentatives of the Hindu and Moslem communities, and an- other effort will be made to heal the existing breach between the two great Indian communities. Nakina, Dec. 12.--Nakina yester- day hung out all its flags, stretched bunting across the street and cut down some of the trees in the sub- urbs to form arches and evergreens to welcome an ordinary stock mod- el motor, Laughlin eight cylin der car, and its driver. It was the first motor that ever arrived in Nakina om its own pow. er. It was taken to the round- house because Nakina does not boast garages. Healey F. Needham, the driver, Coast-to-Coast Motorist Given Welcome at Nakina who is at last making definite pro- gress in his attempt to blaze a trans-Canada motor trail, was met as he crashed through the trees at the outskirts by civic officials and all able bodied citizens. He was given an address of welcome and escorted to the hotel while his car the Nova Columbia, was paraded to the roundhouse. Last night Needham was tender- ed a banquet, the first celebration of the kind the town has witness. ed since Nakina became a divis- ional point on the Canadian Na- VICTIM OF TORONTO SHOOTING AND FAMILY AVAFEF ANNNNVISS x a AN TORONTO CONSTABLE SLAIN BY CAR THIEVES On the cve of his 33rd birthday, P.C. Roy McQuillin, attached to No. 9 Station, was shot by automobile thieves whom he was pursuing, and died before reaching Toronto General Hospital last night. There was to have been a surprise party for McQuillin at his home to-night, and when brother officers visited the home at 27 McGregor Avenue to break the news, Mrs. McQuillin was engaged in preparing for the gathering.: The murdered constable and his wife are shown at left, and at the right are their two children: June, aged two and a half years, and Roy, seven, CHINESE COMMUNISTS BURNING AND SLAYING (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Hankow, China, Dec, 12.---~Com- Manic favane today wove voperiod beseiging Lichow, ¢ity of Hunan province after capturing Tsingshih, another important center in Hunan, The bandits were reported to be killing and the latter city. Townsmen of Lichow, it was sald, were manning the walls and offer- ing strong opposition to the reds, who, reports indicated, were incens- ed at their inability to enter the city. They have sworn, it was sald, to execute every man, woman and child in Lichow when they take that city, 84,712 People Provided Work Senator Robertson Reports on Result of Govern- ment Efforts (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Ottawa, Dec. 12.--With three provinces unreported the joint un- employment relief scheme of the federal and provincial governments has provided work for 84,712 indis viduals, Senator G. D. Robetson, minister of labor, announced today. This total does not include returns for Quebec, Saskatchewan and Al- berta, Senator Robertson said contracts had been entered into between the I"ederal and provincial governments the municipalities and the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Rail- way companies calling for the ex- penditure of $60,019,192 to relieve distress conditions. Of the $20,- 000,000 appropriated by parliament at the special session as the Feder- al government's share in the scheme $11,055,192 has been designated for specific works, This left a bal- ance in the fund of $8,944,808 to take care of the federal govern- ment's share in provincial and municipal undertakings. Cuba Being Ruled By Martial Law (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Havana, Dec. 12.--Virtual mar- tial law ruled Cuba today from one end of the island to the other as President Machado sought to put down rising disaffection and stu dent © disturbances which are threatening the life of his regime. Persistent reports that he had re- slgned his office in a communica+ ion to the supreme court were denied by the president, 'and the United States embassy branded as "utterly false" current stories that it had asked that two cruisers be sent here from Guatanamo 'to pro- tional Railway W tect United States interests. burning recklessly in | BANDITS ROB BANK BRANCH IN WINNIPEG Three Armed Men Hold Up Bank and Get Away With $8,700 (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Winnipeg, Dec, 12,---Three arm- ed bandits held up the Bank of Montreal branch at the corner of Logan and Trinity streets here this morning and escaped with $8,700. Fifty minutes after the bank opened, the trio entered and in less than five minutes, carrying their loot in a bag they brought with them, were speeding away in an automobile. The manager of the little branch bank and his assistants were heru- ed into the vault and the door slam- | med shut, As two of the bandits rounded up the employees and marched them to* the Vault, the third entered the cashier's cage and scopped up the currency from the drawers and counter. Residents of the district, which is in the north-west section of the city, were attraéted to the scene when the trio ran from the bank and the var roared away. Police were soon at the bank, and the manager and his staff were releas- ed from thelr prison. = "All Quiet" Fil Film Banned in Germany (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Berlin, Dec. 12--A 'movie version of Germany's part in the war, based on a book written by a German has been banned from the screens of the Fath- erland. COMMUTERS AT BORDER SENTENGED Inspectors Are Seeking To Find Petty Smugglers of Liquor (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Niagara Falls, N.Y., Dec, 12.-- More than 8,000 Canadian citizens who cross the international bridges daily to work in this city, were subjected to thorough search by customs inspectors today. The in- spectors frankly admitted that they were' seeking petty smugglers of liquor and declgged that the com- muters would lose their commuting privileges if they were found to be smuggling liquor, In their inspection of the Can- adian commuters, the customs men opened more than 1,000 lunch boxes and examimed more than 12,000 pockets during the first day of the enforcement of the new or« der, MARK HISTORIC SPOTS ON MAPS OF ONTARIO (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Toronto, Dec. 12.--Historle spots im Ontario will be marked on the new provincial highway map to be issued shortly, Hon. George S. Hen- ry, Minister of Highways, announc- ed yesterday. Places such as Lun- dy's Lane, Stoney Creek and others intimately bound up with the his- tory of Ontario, will be marked on the map which will also contain a legend giving a short explanation of each spot. "This will serve not only Ameri- can tourists but our own people," said Mr. Henry ® "They will thus have an oportunity of visiting these places on their travels through the province." Bennett Home From Britain Canada's Prime Minister Ar- rives at St. John This Afternoon oy Canadian Press - Leased Wire) John, N.B,, Dec. 12.--Prime Mote the Rt. Hon. R. B. Ben- nett, will return to the Dominion this afternoon in a setting typical of Canada's winter. Early this morning snow began to blanket the city of St. John, where Hon. Mr. Bennett will first set foot in Can- ada after more than two months at the Imperial conference, and well before noon this "grey port of the grey sea" was white. While one of the heaviest snowfalls of the season was in prospect, the weather was generally mild, and conditions for the welcoming of the. Prime Minister and his party back home were auspicious. The Duchess of Atholl, on which Premier Bennett is returning. was expected to dock at West St. John sometime in mid-afternoon, when a delegation of prominent citizens including Premier J. M. Baxter, will'convey the city's welcome. Held For Hold-Up Sudbury.--Arrested early today in connection with the hold-up of Alex, Dubois, shortly ,after mid- night on Louis Street, two 17 year old boys, Raymond St. Denis and Watler Morrison, will face cHargen in police court. Empire Red Cross Day Established (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) London, Dec, 12.--May the 13th, anniversary of the birthday of Florence Nightingale, "the angel of the Crimes," will be celebrated throughout the Fmpire as Red Cross Day. At a conference of county rep. resentatives the British Red Cross Society adopted a suggestion to this effect. The suggestion was made originally at the recent Em- pire Red Cross Conference, CAMPAIGNING FOR AUSTRALIAN LOAN Government Adopts Otho- dox Methods in Meet- ing Obligations (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Melbourne, Australia, Dec, 12. --The Australian government hav. ing decided to follow orthodox methods in meeting the financial obligations of about $140,000,000 falling due this month, is vigor- ously campaigning on behalf of its $140.000,000 conversion loan. A great rally was held at the Melbourne Town Hall today while 24 aeroplanes circled the city. Hon, J. A, Lyons, acting treasurer, delivered a stirring address to a packed mceting. Afterwards it was announced that about $950,000 had been sub- scribed at this meeting alone, and that the total subscriptions to the loan had mounted to about $81,- 000,000. U.F.0. Conf rms Its Principles Entirely Opposed to Manu- facture, Importation and Sale of Liquor (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Toronto, Dec, 12.---Reaffirma- tion of principles was the only item on the programme today at the concluding session of the On- tario United Farmers' annual con- vention. Included in the long list of principles and policies was a resolution calling for the ratifica- ton of these at each annual meet- ing. With the exception of a slight change, in some of the less im- portant principles the list of poli- cies were reaffirmed without amendmnet, The movement again expresses its opposition to the manufacture importation and sale of liquor and cadet training in the schools. It urges the fixed date for general elections; abolition of the senate, equality of sexes in matters of citizenship, improve- ment of rural educational facili- ties and an all-round reduction in the tariff and increase of the Brit- ish preference, Says Lloyd George Villain of Today (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Buckingham, England, Dec. 12. ~--"The villain of the Great War was the German Emperor; the vil- lain of today is Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George," declared ' Mrs. Stanley Baldwin, wife of the Con- servative leader, opening a Con. servative fair at Buckingham to- day. ula OSHAWA MAN KILLED AT BELLEVILLE + ------------------------ MICHAEL KLASTOFORSKI FOUND ASPHYXIATED IN RAILWAY REFRIGATOR CAR 1 Mar' s Body Found Huddled Close to Charcoal Burner in Special Compartment at End of Railway Car DISCOVERY MADE THURSDAY MORNING Deceased Man Was Son-ine Law of Rev. Father Chrus- tawka, and Wife and Child Are Living in Poland Michael Klastoforski, who formerly resided at 296 Bloor street ea:t, and son-in-law of Rev. Father Chrustaw=«"' ka, a pastor of the Greek Orthoduxs Church here, was found dead in. a C.N.R. refrigeration car at Belleville shortly after midnight yesterday morning according to informatioa re« ceived by the local police. Klasto+ forski's body was found huddled close to a little charcoal burner in the car by a yard man as he was making Lis inspection of the train which was westbound from Montreal, It is bes i'eved that the man was asphyxiated by fumes from the burner. Kiastoforski, who is said to have 4 wite and little child residing in the province of Galicia, Poland, had beens out of work for some tme and had made his way to Montreal where ha hoped to find employment, Failing to secure work there he cyidently was attempting to make his bacly to this city by riding the freight Fumes Were Deadly The refrigeration car in which thd man was found, is used to ship meats during the summer and fruits of alf kinds in the winter, In a compart+ ment at one end of the car, a char coal burner is placed to supply the needed heat in the winter and at cacly divisional point this burner is inspect+ ed and re-fueled. - This burner wag inspected at Brockville so that it iy) evident that Klastoforski had many aged to enter the car somewhere be«! tween Brockville and Belleville, Therq is only one entrance to the compart« ment, that being through a trap doont at the top of the car. It is quite casy to drop from the opening to thq floor below and apparently this was the procedure that the deceased took and he pulled the trap door shut af« ter he descended. The fumes front charcoal, copfined in such a small space, are dealy and there is no doub that he was soon overcome, Inquest to Be Held The Belleville police were notified and the body was removed to the juneral home of Tickell and Browne by direction of Dr, R.. W, Tennent, coroner 'of the district. The remains were then released for burial and brought to Oshawa where arrange ments are: now being made for thd funeral. An inquest will be held. Klastoforski was easily identified as he was carrying a liquor permft of 1929, dated December 21, and alsa some pictures, while his name was signed to a letter written, but never sted. Rev. Mr. Chrustawka left for Belleville yesterday where he made positive identification. The de« seased was employed as a laborer by the Standard Paving Co. last sum« mer. Toronto, Dec. 12.--A great "trading agency" through which the Canadian farmer would sell all his products and purchase all his requirements, was urged to- night by Willlam Irvine, M.PJ for Wetaskiwin, Alta., in an ad- dress at the annual banquet of United Farmers of Ontario. The full economic power was to be found in the buying as well as selling and it was for the preserva- Central Agency to Control Buying And Selling Advocated for Farmers tion of this power, he pleaded. This should be preserved, he said, for the purpose of raising the . agricultural status in Canada to a leval of that of any other class in the community. As a means of utilizing this power they would forms this "trade ing agency" which would be com posed of the various agricultural pools now in operation throughe out the country, \ » Toronto, Dec. 12.--~At a pre- convention ¢onference of Liberal leaders, both wet and dry, held yesterday in camera, a formula was dovised which everyone pres- ent agreed would enable the Lib. eral Party to replace the prohibi- ton plank in its platform, accord- ing to a statemerit in the Toronto Mail and Empire this morning. Several prominent Progressives were present at the conference, it was learned, The gathering was representative of all shades of opinion in the Liberal party, wets and drys and those who represent Report Liberals Have New Liquor Plank Ready (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) the middle course ot 'temperance. Details of the formula were not ' ascertained but it was definitely learned that this formula will ba presented to the Liberal Conven- tion with the support of the leads . ers of all shades of opinion in the party. The vexed prohibition plank ov or which the party had split was dias cussed at considerable length and the new plank was introduced as a policy that would not conflict with the views of either the wets or the drys. Unqualified approval of the new plank was forthcoming after a thorough discussion, it, was said