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KILLED IN PLANE CRASH
The. Pane An Old Model Dev eloped Engine Trouble While
Atteaa ptieig to Reach River to Land
PILOT KILLED OBSERVER INJURED
Sault Ste. 'Marie, ptit Pilot; Jeff that both men did not dile on the spot.
l'itchie, 80, of the Ontario Air Force, The motor went "dead:" Instead of
died, and Assisi sat Pilo' .A?un Sc toeing presence of mind; Fitchie coast'
Grant, 22, is at death's doe as are- ed on his wings ,and when he saw that
cult:. et an accident in the 'Michigan •a crash was unavoidable; selected; the
'Soo 'at n'; n to -day, wh ,i their plane hayfield, where he hoped by coasting
crashed 500 feet to earth in an told to make the; fall as gentle as passible.
rasa pas lure. Fitchie was badly A` no c: dive would have settheplane
broken "up, one of his 'feet being afire, it is 'believed. One gasoline
wrenched off at the' ankle, bothlegs tank, the indiicatorshowed, was nearly
Hand: skull fractured, with otherin- full. The other way, nearly empty.
arias "sufficient;j,o cause death. Grant The needles were -pointing to the tank
was; badly 'crushed about the 'chest. content at, the time of, the crash. The
The machine is a total wreck. force of the fall crushed' the tanks,
Engine. trouble developed as, the and the contents of iioth were spilled.
'{:lane was circling over the Sault. o Guy wipes,bits of cloth,' steel; sup -
It appeared as though Fitchie was ports, engin parts, fuselage and the
attempting to make the river to land. motor were piled up in one heap, One
As he settled above the fibld.dnd saw wing was practically intact, andicat-
that 'a crash was imminent, he circled, lag that when the plane struck the
and just before the crash righted the' ridge it lurched, turned on its side,
plane to a 45 degree .angle to avoid and ground the other wing beneath.
'a nose dive. Thdlnose of the plane
plunged into the soft earth, and as it
slid alcng at. terrific speed struck a
plow -ridge and piled up.
A MASS OF WRECKAGE.
• The fuselage:and' pilot and observer
coykpits:were telescoped. ,One wing
flewto one side; while the.otheer was
crushed to hits under the weight of
,the engine. Among the mass of wreck-
_ ag'.,; with the danger of fire lmniinent,
were .the two, • airmen, unconscious,
• their bodies.. crushed.
St was believed to:be due to .the
handling; of the plane by Pilot Fifehie
PLANE' AN EARLY MODEL.
Fitchie was declared to be an' ex-
pert pilot, and Grant was assistant
pilot. Fitchie came from jreland but
a few weeks) ago to 'accept a position
on the staff. The plane 'they were
driving was one of the early ones used
in Ontario forest patrol work. It
was'simalar .to that driven by "Duke"
Schiller, of overseas flying fame.
The accident marks the first serious
crash in the history of the Ontario
division..
Neither Fitchie nor Grant is mar-
ried.
Practically :dear from illuminating
gas for eleven hours, fifteen drams of
oxygen and heroic efforts caused Airs.
Young of Chicago, to recover—as
well as ever.
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Bob Cook is Given
Penitentiary Term
Will Also . Receive 'Thirty
.,.ashes' or Serious•
C3f�
fence Against Girl,
eraeleeville, Ont.—Before his Lord-
. ship Mr.. Justice Logle at _the Fall
• Assizes here;'Bgh Cook was sentenced
oil chargeseef serious:offences, against
13 -year old ;
Henrietta ` geCullough.
.daughter of Mr. and Mrs..• Hugh Mc
Cullotigh of Amaranth.",On one cltarl;e
the prisoner was' seiitenced'to 'u 'twin
of ten lyeare In Portslnonth Peniten-
tiary.; and to receive. 80 lashes; rindr
a concurrent term of two years was
added on the other charge. The son -I
• tense. is to date from March 3 hut,
when Cools was arrested!.
The ;a eel er has been theeterror of
this district eor 'he past 18 y a tr.=,, 110
is now 51 years of age, and since' his
removal to Toronto six enceli is ane
has aged in el r earance, and
lostcon-
sie,ae aseem,
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River Fag Takes
Tollof One Ship
sOther Victim of Collision
` ' " Proceeds to Its Des-
tinat#on . '
• Quebec, Que.—With Liaison, Que.,
as its destination, the ;French freight-
Union' proceeded slowly up the St,
'Lawrence Rivet afterebellidtng'.with.
and sinking 'the Italian grein;cari'ier
Volcano. The vessel will be examined
at the Lauzondry dock and necessary
repairs will be made there before the
ship again' proceeds to Montreal, its
original destination.
The Italian freighter' "Operosita,"
which went aground at Cock. Point,
near Father Point, while en route
from Boston to Montreal in ballast
to take a cargo of grain at the latter
port, was freed from her position, and
was last reported anchored off Father
Point The extent of the damage to
the ship, if any, was not stated.
Dr:: Wilfred Grenfell Going to
Boston
St. John's, Nfld.--Dr. Wilfred' Gran—
f611 states that recent studies of•north-
ern Labrador made in conjunction
with Commander Donald MacMillan,
American explorer, had !'convinced
'him more than ever of the wonderful
possibilities of that region," Dr. Gren-
fell, who: has sailed for Boston with
his wife after completing his seasons
work in Labrador, said that with
commander MacMillan 're had studies}
a section of northern • lerador pre-
vieusly untouched by .sirs,
" can Certain," ho said, "that Mac-
;i'dilIan and the five scie>;tis'ts. Assisting
''Ilan will amass 'a -vast store pf in-
ormation' yespectjnh' the , cophirgg
, which will be of Mune/lee use towag
,the indristrial 'and economic- develop;
meeof the region," as •t'eleeeenteaeteneet e ante pile
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Shansi Troops
Falling Back
Retreat Continues After the
Failure of Drive on
Chinese Capital
Peking.—The success' of the North -
era ,troops in reoccupying' Dalgan,
north of Poking, as -confirmed from
foreign sources, has restored the po-
sition of the ,war front to virtually.
that of three weks 'ego, when leostil-
ities.brokeout with the drive on Pek-
ing of a great Shansi army. -
'Although the .wars front has been
restored, the northerners have.. sue-
eeeeed in gaining the initiative on all
vectors, have «easily weakened the
Shansi power of resistance and have
gained in addition the' important rail -
rend centre of •Shihchiachwang also
known Ate Ghentow, whence they wil
be able either to launch an invasion
of Shansi er easily prevent a farther
flank menace in case Marshal Chang
Tsolin, the Manchurian War' Lord
decides to occupy the " province. 'of
Ifonan.
Shang, Chen, the defeated Shansi
general on the northern front, con-
tinued hiss. retreat after abandoning
Kalgam which had been captured less
than two weeks ago. The Mane suriah
forces made an unopposed entry into
the city, whereuponthe residents, who
for the past 10 days have been dis-
playing the Nationalist banner, ran
up the five --barred Republican flag
Gen. Chang Teung-Chang, com-
mander of the Shantung troops of
the'northern,alliance, has ocupied the
.towns of Kweiteh and Kaoeheng-Ho
in eastern Ronan and apparently is
riot being opposed liy' Feng Yuhsiang,
whose troops are proceeding westward
aleng`the Lunnhai 'Railevay,:•eancen-
trating at;,Chengchow- and •13onnnfie.
further to' the southwest. '
e It is believed here that Fen, intends
#o ;'withdraw hid forces across .the
Province of Ronan westward to Shen-
si through the Tnngkwan pass whence
he ' came out ,five months ' ago at the
tithe -•that the northern troops met
with reverses in Honan.
Despite continued reports of guer-
rilla raiding
uer-rilla•raiding by Shansi parties in the
vwcrnity of Peking, no confirmation
min be had of the presence of hodtile
troops near the northern capital, and
foreign military experts now, believe
that .thethreat pea to Peking
has been
'ended.
Jugoslavia Press.
Lays Blame on Italy
Assassination of :. Minister
Aimed at Balkan Unity
Belgrad:.--The assassination of the
Albanian Minister to Prague, who at
the same time =was Minister to Bel-
grade has created a painful impres-
sion here, especially after the recent
outrages by the. Bulgarian comitadjis,
and'' -it is considered es.:a hew' attempt
against the consolidation of the Bal-
kans.
The entire press lays the blame for
the crime on Rome, • and stresses the
fact that Teens Bey was an advocate
for friendly relations between Al-
bania and Jugoslavia and an enemy to
the Italophil policy of Ahmed Bey
'Logo.
The daily paper, Vreine, writes that
the Bulgarian'Macodonian 'committee•
and the Italophil regime of Zega,
against the great idea of the Balkans
for the Balkan people and the rap-
prochement of the Balkan nations,
but the idea, it says, must win it the
end. The recent assassination of the
Serbian, General Kovatchevitch, by
the Bulgarian comitadjis and the
shooting of Tsena Bey cannot des-
troy this saving idea. -
Thorns On The Tariff
I3altimore Sun: • Since the conditions
which govern France are not greatly
dissimilar from those governing other
European notions, and since there is
in each of them a natural and merit.
Mlle antagonism against oar economic
supremacy—and our manner of exer
cising it—it is not ' fee -fetched to
think' that the next few - years may
see other natie;is seeking: to "turn, the
screws' on our great foreign trade, as
France liar done. Ultimately, there-
fore, we may be driven to a policy of,
discriminations, like that of Prance,
phWt`a a. conciliatory policy of tariff
negcleration toward all countries,
Bold Bank Bandits
Cleverly Gleams
Toronto Again Scene of Hold-
up Men's " Activities ---
Staff Saved Vaults
Contents
$6,900 TAKEN
In ono of the most sansational,raide
in the history'of Toronto--thees arm-
ed robbers` swept' into the branch' of
the. Bank' of Nova Scotili,"Ossington
avenue end Pandas= streets, shortly
after ten, o'clock Thursday irarning,
held up, the bank staff of ,three: and
stole $6,300' from the teller's cage.
They 'escaped in a car parked just
-outside the bank,'}Haling a'clean get-
away after coming, in contact with
several pua'suers and forcing;; them to
give up the chase,` .<
In the rush to get: away, the robber
who cleaned' out the teller's money'
boxes in : his cage overlooked eight
thousand dollars. •
}♦nteriseg the bank,' the three men.
rushed'"in,:fiashitig their guns and
,shouting,: "stick them hp." • .They
caught Manager A. ,l, And'er'son in
his office, then forced Charles T. Rob-
lin, from'his cage in the centre
of the, bank, and with these two used
grabbed. ,Andrew Johnston, account-
ant, "sitting on his stool. next to 'the
teller's cage,.and drove: the three men
into the vault in the southeast corner
of the east end of 'the' bank.
• In the vault, one bank robber cocked
the trigger of his revolver and slam-
med' the door of the outer vault; But
hs the men were being herded into • ir'aftr_ _ a to
..East
the vault' one had prudently turned
Ruth Eider failed' by 809 miles to fly the Atlantic, but luck brought her
piane' down in 'safety beside 'the steamship e ' Bar ndreeht.
Nation Discuss
RethiCtiGiftS ons
Trade of World
Conference 'Opens on Aboli-
tion of linpoptsand Export
Pr6hibitions •
Giateva.—Thirty-four; states were
represented when the diplomatic con-
ference fAr' 'the abolition of impeirt,
and export prohibitions, end' rsstrie
tints'. were opened here, in, the.Glass
Itaoca of the 'l,ieastie of Ntions.. Of
these two thipcls were European,' which
as the chairman pointed, out in his
ops'ningi speeds, were mainly aifscted,
while two, namely the United States
and Egypt; were non-members of the
League of •Nations. The United States'
delegation consists of Hugh R. Wil-
son, the American Minister to Berne, '
with three experts, H. Lawrence
Groves and Charles, E. Lyon, com-
mercial attaches at: Vienna and Bernet
;respectively, and .Percy' W. Bidwell,
representing the tariff commission,!
and Pinkney Twit, thejAmerican con -
sal cit Geneva, as secretary. V
The chairman of the conference is
IL Colin, former Prime Minister of r
Holland, Who presided' with great dis-
tinction over the sectiones the World
'Economic Conference last spring. Li,
his opening speech • he recalled the'
"work of that conference and the :saip-
port tben. giveen to the'ob-oce6f the
g 7 s
present discussions. He pointed out'
that 'not only hadthat conference
warmly approved the draft conven-
tion now before them, but the League
of Nations Aksembly bast voted are
British Start . Spray Compound solution in the same sense.g, said e
y "There' is nothing, id fh chair -
at the
present time to; justify measures which
may in certain cases have been de-
fensible, 'in the exceptional' years
which immediately followed the war,"
Rightly or wrongly, he asserted, pub -1
Iia opinion would see hi the results
of their work the touchstone of the.
sincere will of the governments of the have revealed the fact that Bielik was
states members of the League to carry! preparing to take unto himself an
into effect the recommendations of the, other helpmate when he was removed
the outer combination on 'the door,
locking the bolts so they could not be
locked in.
The last bank robbery was the Bank
'of Toronto, King and Bathurst
streets, April 21, this year, when $17,-
841 was stolen by three mined men.
The men were never caught.
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Sofia to Apply
Martial Law ,
With Firmness,
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Fatal to Family man, "in the. circumstances
Four PIalips Embark on Ser- Mistaken for Flour and Used
vice Trip of 1 1 Months to
India and Australia •
London:—Four flying boats left.
from Plymouth on a Far Eastern Sweet and their son, Robert, of Raw -
cruise, don Township, are seriously ill in
London.—Tbe flight from Plymouth .Nicholls Hospital here, suffering from
of four Southampton flying boats is poisoning, having mistaken arsenate
regarded as the most ambitious ser- o'f lime for flour.
vice flight which has yet been attempt- Last July Mr. Sweet bought some
ed. Their approximate dates are as arsenate of lime, which he later pee
follows: • I in the pantry: Shortly afterward
Leave England Oct. 17, arrive Kar- Mrs. Sweet made some gravy. • All ate
achi November; leave Karachi Jana -:-some of it and were suddenly taken ill,
in Gravy—Poisons
Whole Family
Peterboro.—Mr. and Mrs. Marshal
Rain Hampers
Hunt : for Suspect
1No Te'ace Found of Ma
Wanted in Connection
With Northern
Mnirder
Ce' d cane, Ont; -Archie Rechenko
a'' laborer ` of ' Russian birth, is
sought by the Provincial ' Police of
this district cr„at.;ieod• into a squad
under Inspector Ward' of the Criminal'
Investigation Deps tmcnt of 'Toranto,
and Sergeant Frank Gaedms.; of Co,
palt, in connection with, the murder
of Nester Bidlili, whose dead 'body wits
found lying beside his buggy,: in the
yard of his farm on concession f of
Lamarche township on Monday morn-
ing of this week. &clients* has been
employed by Bielik•in the capacity of
a hired' man at various intervals deer -
lig the 'past 4 or 5 years: . About '.
week age he is said to'have disappear-
ed,: but the police believe that he
again visited BieIik's house the day
before Bielik's body„ was discovered.:
Aemissing ride, said. to correspond
with the calibre of the bullet which
caused Bielik's death, is 'believed will
form an important clue in the. identi-
fication of the murderer. The rifle Is
said• to have been in. Bielik's, posses-•
seen within' the past true weeles, but a
search of'the ''house has failed to re-
veal traces of the weapon at the preen -
ant time;; Ac usual, there are a great
many .i•unrars, one of which suggests
that fox some time Boehenko has been
dIIssablsfied;ivitli Bielik'a eondtuet ear-
dicul rjy.in'the matter of wages. Toe
day a squad of seven Provincial offi-
cers are making et canvass of the
neighborhood in an attempt to find
traces of the missing man.
An interesting fact in connection
with the mprdared man was the inten-
tion to •be married within. tare weeks.
Bielik was married' once before, but
some time ego became separated from
his wife who is now said to be living
n oniial. Parke investigations
iM'tr
International Economic Confeeenee I Cobalt, Ont.—Greatly hampered' in
which the had unanimously • b
yand
pu their efforts b thesodden
Hely' approved, It lay within their y ra-
to first b t d of the countryside the Provincial
ncaal Pa -
pow
er take the smallu e -lice were without trace of their
finite and practical steps to carry info man, according to reports at
effect the principles of economic soli- district loadquarters here. Inspector
daps '' which the recent world con- Mcora s
that Bulgarian Cabinet in Special ary, arrive Calcutta February; arrive The rest is .the gravy was thrown Terence had affirmed, t a message fron
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SergeantFrank G
Ma , ;arrive ,Worth tlustralia '.rune; The checkers all died and the do tion of the United States for the anvi-
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Singapore March; leave Singapore out;' The dog and chickens ate it.. Mr. Wilson expressing the
a prates- ar;lthe told of the
Session Actign t0 Be, police F"'avhig•to waw• through a mass
Taken Against .Raids arrive' Melbourne July; leave Mel -become• ill. A doctor was summ nee tation to articip ate said that import of mud in some parts of the district
Sofia.—The Prime Minister, Andrei bourne August; leave Australia Sep;' and'a nurse was=called,. o p p '' p tvhtch is flat and marsbv and wliref
Liapicbeff, has formally opened the tember, arrive Singapore, September.' A. neighbor,wlio was. called to help
special sessioli of the National Assern-. They will then remain at Singapore solved the mystery of the sickness
bly called to 'confirm the Cabinet's . for a time, and probably undertake when she found the lime in the pan
deGisfon to introduce martial law In a further tour in Far Eastern waters. try.
Petrich and Kustendil, districts in -f The boatswill'be under command''of1, 'leers. Sweet islyingyhelpiess having
habited largely by Bulgarian Mace -1 Group.Captairi H. M. Cave -Browne- no use of her legs or one arm. Mr.
denians'and' reputed to be the centre Cave, D.S.O. (•Sweet's feet are numb and he site
of activity of the Macedonian revolted The route front Plymouth will be in a chair, while their son, Robert is in
tionary organization which has re- • via Hourtin (near Bordeaux) over- a critical condition and may not re-
cently admitted the" commission of land to the Mediterranean seaplane cover. They Were all removed to the
many outrages in South Serbia. ,I base, at Berre, down the Italian coast, hospital on Monday after confinement
At the close of Saturday's meeting, calling at Naples and Brindisi, via far ihany weeks to their home.
which lasted only 15 minutes, Mr, Sude Bay to Alexandretta, across the
Liaptcheff assembled the government' Syridn desert which involves a land
representatives who comprise 170 out flight of 180 miles, to the. Persian
of, the 270 members- of Parliament Gulf and Karachi,
and announced that the Government. They will then coast round India
has the will and the power to deal and Ceylon to • Calcutta, thence to
with 'all elements disposed to disturb Altera!, Rangoon, Singapore and the
the peace. ' Dutch East India Islands to Aus-
Atanas Bouroff, the. Foreign Minis- tralia.
ter, described the development and,,
events of the last 10 days, emphasized �p
the necessity for. preventing all coni- Prince Has
plications, „declared that the Bulger-'
Ian :Government, neither approved nor
supported the, terroristic activity in
neighboring states and expressed the
Government's determination to apply
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Spain Agitated
Miners Strike Assumes Seri-
ous Aspect When Troops
intervene
Pdris,—.lekorder arising in the
miners' strike in NorthernSpainhas
culminated in several bloody .clashes
between troops and the strikers, ac-
udsy Tune on . ' An attempt to turn the Strike into
Bournemouth Visit
widespread political movement
cording to messages received' here; •
agn.inat' the Rivera dictatorship has
martial law firmly but without resort -"i. ' brought about a Serious situation, the
ing to brutal measuree; H.R.H. DuringFive Hours reports ;state: Anarchist "gistaleros"
Parliamentary debates 'On the bill Attended' 19 Differentpersist in concentrating'their ' forces
dis-
approving and introducing martial in the disturbed Balboa mining
law will begin next Tuesday. • Ceremonies . taint despite the fact that Government
Competent judges consider nation- Bournemouth, Eng.—The Prince of . regiments 'repeatedly have fired ea
alism in th'e-country stronger than at Wales is accustomed to hustling, butt nra�ssed groups of, disaffected. work
any time since the war. he had to extend himself 'during a men, who replied by hurling bombs
five-hour visit to this south coast re- and hand grenades.'
Busy on Great Lakes ' ' sort recently in order to fit into the ' Casualties have occurred, but no
Port Arthur, Ontario. -'rhe rush of plant of the townsfolk, who had made estimate of their number, has been
grain from the Prairie, Provinces to .him he leading figure'in 10 different obtained because of censorship.
the head pf the Great Lakes is now in `ceremonies.
full •swing•. In one day recently 1,450 The chief Ceremony was the open- Drove Tractor on Cement
elevators at 'Port Arthur and Fort pital. 1VI 1 cth Thr h Fn it R.'
POO U.S. . Tourists They Steady I�oW>r�.
in • commission a
loaded Is 'leaving for Montreal and monies, and was cheered,, by throngs! Watson, a thresher of Melanethon
other ports where the' grain is trans- of townsfolk, as well as people from Township, was fined $5 and costs of
shipped for British .and Puropean the': outlying. districts who had jour- $10, for ,driving hie tractor over the
markets. Hayed here in'buses. cement highway above Shelburne.
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England's Speed Merchant
cars 1•of wheat r i
were received e ri of a. e
e ca v d at the gnew wing of Boscomo Hos-
e an on es er i e .
William, Every available boat is now The Prince smiled', bowed aid Orangeville, Ont—Before Pollee
and export prohibitions was one of has been visited by frequent 'rains
the most serious obstacles, opposed to latel
y.
the liberty of commerce in the }world, According to the inspector's latest
t
and the United Stas was' glad to information, Bochenlro"s_movements
have the opportunity to assist us seek- ,preceding the death of -Biel* not
been definitely cleared up, and no one
in the region of the slaying appear:someto have seen him for some days prior
to the finding of Bielik's dead body
Police officers" are covering the des
trier adjacent to Cochrane, and an
enquiring at the different colonise o
foreign born residents located in th
area tributary to that town.
Ing it solution,. •
b
Another Hint.
Add summer vacation advice r "Don't
rock the plane."—New nark Evening
Post.
' Naturally reliance is laced In the
strength of a candidate who makes a
habit of carrying his state.
France Wins in England
RACING AT RROOKLANIS
A Delage Car, driven le, Robert Benoist, carried off the Grand Prix
offered by the Royal Automobile Club for motor racing at ]ireoltlands.
The race In progress, Benoist leading.
lid as soon as.. it is "speeched" his way through floc cere-,'Magistrate Hugh Falconer here Wpi.i Entered at Windsor
Lieut, Webster, winner of Cl,e Schneiclee cup and maker, of a new worlds record gel omed home` to re
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Only Five Per' Cent. Asked
About Liquor Permits,
Says Report
Detroit, meh.—During the summer
months, following repeal, of the. On-
tarao Temperance Act, morn that 85,-
000 autentoblle tourists from the Unt-
ted`Stateet vitiated lutes -Mr 0utnlW via
the Detroit -Essex 'trouts alone, ,accord -
tag to statiscis compiled by the Reser
County Autornablle Club, .
The club, whieh has charge of is-
suance of'atitoinohile touring permits
to aliens passing Into the interior of
the province through Windsor, esti-
mates ""conservatively"',•that these
tourists spent more' than $2,000,000.
The automobile toerlets are estimated
to have. numbered, lose' ,than a tenth of
the total' non -touring aliens who visit-
ed Windsor only. •
The interesting observation -that a
majority of, the tourists tabulated
wore attraoter" to tee province by its
scenic beeutiss•'Is made by the organ•
ization in its report made public re.
cently.
"Only ileo per cent. of the visitors
aslied how liquor permits were obtain-
ed, and about ono par cent. actually
pbought beer. or whisky in Wirrdso't' be.
fore starting out on their trips," the
report snorts.
The steeietics. allowed Ohio, Wahl-
gan, Iiljirois and Itentueky load In, the
',umber of autotuohile tourists, inkythe
orde;' named. There were a number
of visitors registered from Alaska.,
*es,
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"What is it that those young Com-
munists aro really after?" asks a
critic. We suggest Reddy money, '.
,I"- ` 4.
,Aocordirig to 'Elinor G`1yn, Iengllsh
pIs'la' heeds de. not match thole bodies,
'I(ir''i',hje4,§tlidllnn, noii'te, ollnreus lodotpro' sees
Conference in London Aims
to Bring Industrial Peace
London.-•l'•ep.'esen'tatives of the
workers and employers met at the
Mansion House here, the Lord' Mayor
presiding, to discuss practical aspects
of the problem of promoting Indws-
triel peace.
Tile chief speakers for the workers,
Charles G, Amnion, ILP.; Ben Turn-
er,' the• new chairman of the ;Trade
Union Congress; Concemore T.
Cramp, former president of the Inter-
national Transport Workers . Federa-
tion, and, for the ,employers, Sir. AI-
fred Mond, Walter Runciman, and Sir
Thomas Insk':p, representing the
chemical industries, shipping and the
Government. respectively.•
The conference is the oatcome of
proposals by. Philip Snowden, former
Chancellor of the Exchequer, for
b'ring'ing, "equality in status, if not in
function, among - all necessarily en-
gaged in the common 'enterprise of
carrying on industry."
' It is noticeable as bringing togeth-
er Sir Alfred Moncl, who has recently
Started a profit-sharing scheme in the
large works he directs, and organized' ;
labor •bodies hitherto hostile to such•
means of identifying the workers' and .
capitalists' interests.
Referring to profit-sharing schemes'
atEpsom, Frank Hodges, ex -secretary',
of the Miners' Federation, said: "It
may well. 'be, that. the .growth of such ,
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relations may ;so,, alter the attitude
between employer' and employed as to
result in. a mighty modification of the
.political and social outlook for mil- i
lions of our countrymen. Because of
this, such schemes may meet the opt*.sition rather than support .of hardy ,
baked party politicians. But the lead- l
erg, of industry must 'brush these
aside."
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'Our'' idea of.khe "world's softest Job
would be that of .publieltyman fore
ito Messeli,il, -
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