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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1929-10-03, Page 6May Now Probe Dept, of Finance ynL. ad rnen!s to Royal MayCom- mission Ottawa, Sept, 21, It hs believed Aare that should, G. W. flyndman, As. blatant DoputY Mintster of Finance; ire found guilty of defalcations froom phe Department • of Finance on which he is now awaiting trial,,thero will be a call be' Ute,Opposttiou In Parliament for a thorough investigation et this elepavtin0nt. it ie stated that the br'oadcasttng. throughout the country oC the news or EYntlman's arrest will nun consider• able• uneasiness and that a Royal Couiinls81OI may be appolated to go. thoroughly into the details of the de. partment and show how it le possible for speculations to ocur over such a long period of time 'without the guilty parties being discovered. • Reports state that the amount miss - Dig from the department in liberty bonds may amount to a very large figure. This is the second time in the past pix years that a finance clepartmout official has been charged with the theft of liberty bonds. In the first ease the accused was 'convicted and received a senteuee of three years. Tlie charge was only for a to wtItou- sand dolars butit is understood that the actual alnaltnt involved was over $50,000, It has been definitely stated here that further charges would be laid against Styndamn, who Is now on re- mand awaiting trial o nlour charges of theft ot bonds amounting to $4,000. Continued investigation by the spe- cial auditors . and by Finance Depart- ment Investigator, Duncan, are dis- closing further. deficiencies. It le also learned that it is not yet definitely es- tablished whether any other persons are involved. Arthur G. Claght, ICM prominent Toronto barrister, who has acted on many occasions tor Guarantee com- panies in similar cases, has been re. tallied by the government as an ad. Retie* 4 'Scene* front, Riot Mott of Holy I mel: Premier Ferguson Starts Campaign Huge Banquet Marks Open- ing of Government's Election Activities There will be no plebiscite on liquor nor on any other matter of public potty so long as Hou: G. Howard Fer- guson is head of the government of Ontario. Standing firm on established British constitutional practice, Premier Fer- guson will continue to take responsi- bility at the polls for his Handling of Ontario's affairs. In such words, the prime minister fired his opening gun of the 1929 pro- vincial general election campaign with a frontal attack on the position taken by W. E. N. Sinclair, LC,G„ the' Liberal leader. It was a campaign opening unequal- ledi enthusiasm Increspleu• BRITISH TROOPS IN PALESTINE MAINTAIN; ORDER here are the first to be received ol-British troops in Palestine tushed 16 scene of date disorders to ciaell The photographs hs first i show victims 01 the riots, (1). Itahbi Dr. Tol,enlcin,•who was wended in Arab uprising at Ii0br0u; is here shown conflict. The ng t m the effect ons rem the effects oL his injuries, (2) Three aurvivtng members of the Iiisselstein Family' father, daughter gand young boy. Five in bed merecmbers ot Y the Painil were killed by Arabs at Hebron, while these tinea 'survivors were .wounded. (3) A' lone aeutiriel 'ot South W Bine other members Y Borderers on roof of a damaged house at Talpioth, and (4) Men of the FlrstSouth'Wales Borderers in fighting kit. Thane latter two photographs• were taken at Talpioth, a wealthy Jewish suburb c f Jerusalem, where many residences were wrecked Py Arabs. the Jew -Arab Arctic Patrol Ship Nears Voyage End 'Department of the Interior's 1929 Expedition Expect- ed Homo Early 'in September The Canadian Government's annual expedition to tate posts on the oaetertt Wands of.. the Arottc archipelago is nearing ; the completion Of , its work and the return of tite ship to the IlOme pert ot North Sydney, Nova Scotia, is aspected early In September. The northern party, which is in oharge 01 Mt. George P. Mackenzie. ot the North West Territories and Yukeil Branclti of the Department ot the Interior, sailed 00 board the S,S, Boothic for the annual patrol on July '20,,and on the morning of July 27 had completed, the 1,800 -mile voyage to Godhavo,r, Greenland, the first port of call. Atter an exchange of courtesies with the Dan. 1011 ofacials at that point, the ship con: tinned north and west to Dundas 1-lar- bor, Devon• island; .which was readied' On the morning of July $1, At noon the following day the ship resumed its voyage and a short call was made 'tit Craig Harbor on.' Ellesmere Island tile same day, The Beothie also stopped off Cape Sparta) while photographs both still and motion, were taker. of the herds of muskox at that point. Continuing north the Beattie' enter- ed South. Sound on August 2 and at. ter battling l.ieavy ice reached'. Rico strait the next day. A great un• broken ice field in Buchanan Bay bar. red the Cather progress rf the ship towards Bache Peninsula and the sup. plies had to be landed at Cape Roth. Orford within easy hauling distance of the post. Inspector A. II, Joy, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police,., Con- stable Taggart, :tad .aa Askimo•named N000aintngwah, who had completed one ot the ' most important overland patrols ever made among the Arctic [elands, . were at Bache P,eninsuia and went aboard the ship. Inspector Joy's Party tett Dundas Harbor .on March. 12 for a patrol west to Melville Island, during which they visited, in addition to Melville Ieland, Lougheed, King' Christian? Ellet Ritigues, Arnaud in size, en us asm �{ dance in the history of tate Conserve- Larkin Says Hague many as quickly as possible, and his visory counsel and to assist in the prosecution. Mr. Staght has been topersuasion rP,Pranco to hurry up then' close conference during the week sive party in Ontario. Nearly 5;000 el own evacuat-ion- with °Metals of the Justice sConference ad Pim- cheering government supporters pack- Mowas a magnificent piece of ed every available dining room of work, declared the Canadian High Royal York and the King Edward, High Commissioner to Lon- G0 tha ance departments, Movement to Reinstate Deposed Police Chief Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.—A consider- able movement has grown up in the Sault seeking -the reinstatement ot Chief S. B. Graham, who was recent- ly dismissed by the police ommissioa 'following n technical' breach in bor- rowing for a motor tour a car Olt which the driving and operating licenses had been cancelled. Following a. petition signed by all the clergy of the city, Dr. George Tomato's two largest hotels, tee mmi sdoner: ' "At the end the spirit shown by all while hundreds of others for whom don Describes Repara delegates was superb, and was all that there was no room rotvded the lob- I tions Meeting hies. To all these and to a vast unseen Quebec.—A vivid description of the could be wished for, with the greatest friendship existing. It was matte Ito the League of Nations," .concludedaudience all aver the province, reach- recent meeting, of the Reparations , drm lion. 114x, Larkin. ed by the largest radio hook-up everConference at the Hague and the arranged in Canada, the premier re• stand taken by Right Hon. Philip ilip e viewed the financial history of hs , Snowden, o1 Great Britain, rtseeking Dominion t® Care r "overnmont, skotclted the work being what amounted to return of the Spa done on the huntnn:itarian emblems Agreement, was given newspapermen For historic Sites attached to the care of the anderprivi• by Rt, IIon• Peter C. Larkht, Calla- - , leged, pleaded for a courageous, far -din High Commissioner to London, seeing development of the resources upon his arrival to the Dominion on board the liner Moutcalin. of the north, and finally made tits Hon, Mr. Larkin, who was met at Thotn1ee, retired Archbishop of Al- (trenchant declaration for a fully re- site dock byPremier Mackenzie Bing goma, has written to the commission sensible government. and Hon. Lucien r Ma k Solicitor suggesting that they reconsider their General, stressed the friendly feelings decision, and several other petitions One Killed, TWO Hurt Ithat prevailed among all present when are 10 tr'Clllatilti in the city. In Crossing (t!iishap, the conference adjourned, and of Hon. Magistrate Elliott favors ilia rein- MO. Snowden's triumphal return to statement of the chief and Mayor Stratford.—When the light service Irwin opposes It, while Judge Stone, truck in which they were ricking was; Loudon, hut, be declared, one of the the chairman, is non -committal, mere- struck by a C.N.R. passenger train most important points o4 the entire ly stating that the petitions will re- in the Village of Atwood at no n on'conferenco, and one not concerned ceivo consideration, Wednesday, Royal Todd, age 21, was;lwith reparations at all was the sue - fatally injured, and John O. Killer,' cessful effort made by Rt. Hon. Arthur age 23, and Fred W. Ritchie sere in. Henderson, of the British Cabinet, to 30 Horses Entered jnred but sot seriously T dd • died m the L Lindsay Fall Fair Lindsay, Ont.—Lindsay's 53rd an nual fail fair opened Wednesday Prospects for record entries and at tendance are bright. Over 30 horses from Ontario, Manitoba and United States are here for the trials cf speed. Entries in live stock are sur- passing last year. Canon Cody, of Toronto, will open the fair officially. • W'ednesday's horse shoe pitching contest was won as follows: 1, Wal - win and Henry, of Janstville; 2, Mc- Laughlin brothers, of Burketon; 3, Ray and McKey. of Lindsey; 4, Brown and Coulter, of Toronto. Labor Repudiates A.B.C. and Guild Land, u, Ont., Sept. 19. At their re-! 40 feet along the tracks. Britain, yautumn. 1 The train, C.N.R. No. 1.95, bound for . Canada Interested I "provisions will be made- at subse- gular meeting last night, members of Kincardine, was in charge of Engineer "Canada was only indirectly tater- quant sessions for the effective prose - the London Trades and Labor Conine D Freeland end Conductor 0. Becker, osted, but naturally we wanted to•help ell passed a resolution stating that both of Palmerston, It was slowing Great Britain, as we have an agree- cation of the Government's policy with they v fished to go on record that they respect to the maintenance of historic rano no connection with the Amiga-, down Prior to coming into the stn- Tent with Britain that they shall pay 1 sites and monuments, including, in tion when the crash occurred. The its 4.35 per cent, of all the reparations particular, the walls and fartfications !persuade the Preach to hurry their Todd istowol Mem-, evacuation of Germany. oriat Hospital from a punctured lung; When Mr. Snowden first presented and fractured skull, while Killer and, his argument, declared Mr. Larkin, it Ritchie are confined to the Stratford iwas certainly not very favorably re - General Hospital. All are Stratford` ceived by those who benefitted by the men and employees of tite Ontario De -t setting aside of the Spa percentages partment of highways. �—the total amount Germany had to The three men ,comprising a survey pay to the Allies. party, left the city about 11 o'clocki It was claimed that the Commission Wednesday morning and in little more, or Experts, held iu Paris, had no right an hour laterhtier gdad (to touch percentages, even though than an hour later their truck was they had a 1101lect right to settle the struck and deem:118 act at the cross -'amount Germany was apable of pay- ing in Atwood, How the accident,i iug' Son of Parliament lot the restoration �s l�° �yor pay - occurred Is not yet known definitely,' Everyone interested had naturally one of the and the rebuilding horse history in Tennessee, Kentucky, but witnesses believe that Ritchie, the' to tape less, because the experts came ofof otne of Earl Grey gates and t e, which lies driver of the truck, did not see the to the conclusion that Gorman could betweenfthe citadel and the river, and express train approaching. The not continue the amount she was pay- which, or sonic time past, has been truck drove 011 l0 rho crossing direct• Mg under the Dawes agreement, whcloich to the public on account ofern ly in ttie Path at the traits and the The percentage each nation re•.dilapidated and dangerous 011 us condition in engine crashed into the front of the ceived of the total amount, was alter -,which it has been deft. T fully expect light tracts, hurting It approximately ed to the great disadvantage 01 Groat that this work will he completed this Premier King Announces Government's Intention Regarding Preservation Quebec. From now on the Domin- ion Government ill look after the historic sites and ionuments in Can- ada; an interviewer was informed by Premier Mackenzie King when he was M Quebec for the purpose of greeting Hon. Peter C. Larkin, Canadian High Commissioner to London. Work will start on the ancient walls and fortifications of Quebec, but in addition to this province there are sev- eral other points which deserve con- sideration, among them Louisburg and Hudson Bay. The Prime Minister said: "The pol- icy of the Government is to maintain, poi - [ and where necessary, to reconstruct, to such extent as may be in the public interest, the historic sites and monu- ments of Canada. "In this connection, it is the Gov- ernment's intention to see that the ancient walls and fortifications o Quebec are properly cared for and preserved. An appropriation of 350, 000 was made during the relent nes Long Point Light' Slays 900 Birds Lured by: Deadliest Beacon in. Canada, Warblers, Thrushes Killed While flying southward one foggy night about two weelcs ago, some 900 little warblers, sparrows an dthrushes were dashed to death against Long Point lighthouse—lured to their des- truction by its brilliant beacon. Mr. Saunders, well-known ornitholo- gist, of London, Ont., hearing or the. calamity, repaired to the' wild inac- cessible tip of the point which runs out into Lake Erie for some 20 miles from Port Rowan Oat. Ile oounted about 850 victims, but estimates that more perished. Though stormbound for a day or so on the point, Mr. Saunders sent the Royal Ontario 95 specimens, not all in good condition, and about hall ot which the museum experts have skinned for mounting, Gets Song Birds For years Long Polut light has been. a menace to small birds, It stands right in the line or a main flight, and takes toll on both northerly and south- erly migrations. Wild duolc and plover, flying mostly by day, avoid it, but song birds, flying by night, suc- cumb. Mr. Lewis a Goverumeat ornitholo- gist of Ottawa, has made a study of ' the destructiveness of Eastern. Cana- dian lighthouses in this respect, and finds Long Point beacon, by reason of the quality or its light mud its situa- tion, the deadliest. - Silver Fox Fur Five -Gaited Horses Ar use Interest Ringnes,'Cornwall, Axel,Ileiberg, and ElleOule,re Islands, covering ,roughly 1,800 votes. Turning south from the farthest o • nrth .Post, the Beatific paid a second For Royal Fair visit to Dundas Harbor where Inspect- . or Joy completed' arrangements for Exceptional interest, according to his return to Ottawa With the expedi- a Citnaddan Prose message from tion. At midnight on August 7, the Louisville, Ky., was manifested among expedttioh reached Pond Inlet at the. state-wide gatherings of liorsomen at northern end 61 Baffin lsland. The in - the Kentucky State Fair in the au- let was found full of iso but the ship nonncetnent that the Royal Winter forced a way to a position close Fair at Toronto we aid introduce' five- enough to land supplies and nialte the gaited horse classes itt the big Cam necessary inspection and change of adieu fair next November. This pioneer move by the Royal Winter Fair was warmly commended by veteran rider -owners, including Mat Cohen, of California; Rabert Moreland, Lexingtt. u, Ky.; H. S. . 0aY- wood, Middleton, Ky.; and others. Important entries are •assured for the coming Royal Whiter Fair, inhaling horses from the Minton Stables at Barbourville, Ky., and Uplands, Pa. Alter the sensational win or his Target in the gelding sectiut ot, the $10,000 Seelbach stake over the cream Of American five -gaiters, William M.. M. Robinson, Philadelphia, the own- ed, remarked enthusiastically; "No.w I can bring my stable to Toronto. I had no good reason to cc MO before." Five -gaited horses aro claimed to be a special product of Kentucky. Otd-tithe breeders bought Ontario horses of great speed and endurance to cross with American saddle acmes. Marguerite Farlee Bayliss, well known throughout the United States as an authority on the history and blood- lines or horses, says that Peter the surrounding Chesterfield' Inlet and Great traced directly to a Canadian Balser Lake. stallion of warm nothing is known except that he was brought south Erom Ontario.. , , He was also the ancestor of the southern saddle horse Sun Bat11S. in Parks breed' whose descendants foram sew- For London Citizens eras strong strains through(ut saddle London—"People .in the next gen- eration, I think, will wear far less clothes than now," said Hon; Geo. Lansbut`y, first commissioner of worlcy ht the Labor government, addressing a meeting of women. ile referred to the value ot "sun-bathing" and the opportunities afforded for this in the public parks, wltleh come under hie jurisdiction. "When I spent. .a fortnight at the seaside this year I saw numbers of children running about almost naked, enjoying the sun's rays, and I was very much struck with .the Improvement in their condition within a few days," Mr, Lansbury said. "1 spent one day going around the London parks looking for suitable places where children may get all the aun they want. There aro dir&G culties. in ooniectiou with the matter, but I believe our parks will be used a great Ileal more' in this sway in the personnel. At 7 o'clock on the even- ing of the 8th the1voyage Was con. tinued south along the Baffin Island oast.' On the 9.111 the ship touched at Clyde River, a native settlement and 'trading post. Heavy ice Was en- countered througl,1't the trip 'south, great ice fields ending for fifty Miles out into =- ay. Ou the af- ternoon of the 13th . the expedition reached Pangnirtung on Cumberland Sound. Dr. Livingstone, Chief Medi- cal Health Officer of the North West Territbries and Yukon Branch, wso spent the past year among the natives of Baffin Island. came aboard at 'this point, and Dr. H. A. Stuart disem- barked t0 continue the work. At 4 a.m. on the 15th the Boethlc left Pang-' nirtung for Lake Harbour, on the , southern coast of Baffin Island, which post was reahed on August 17. The following day the ship headed west through Hudson Strait tor Chester- field, where a medical post will be es- tablished for the .benefit ofthe white sad native population of the district mated Builders • Ci nett or Heating truck was travelling at. abort 92 miles and Plumbing Guild, or any such oom-, hour• bine, and that organized labor in Lon- d foes not support any such' tut - she receives. We wanted Great Brb of Quehec. It is, I believe, generally tarn to get as much as she ould," cls- recognized throughout the Dominion dared Hon. hie. Larkin. i -� •- ithin the British Empire there. on c 1 Considerable dlsettesion'took place is no monument of greater historical methods but believes In fair cnntpeti• Canada Buying daring• the three weeks that followed Mon and just and honorable methods significance than is afforded by the of business. More U.S. Furniture mr, Snowden's declaration as to the 1 Citadel and its immediate environ- ments including the properties at doing ,us ness. Charlotte N,C•—United States et- limit Ise would accept, and things R o despairing, u there In All Mark is Many Countries Now Seeking Pure Bred Stock From Canadian Ranches one Hears of a coming boom cog rho The principal market for silver fax snddle' horse, especially itis five -gait - furs up to the outbreak of •the war had ed tyre• been in Europe, but after hostilities _ _ began the silver Lox breeder sought a Three Barn F a°�s market in the United States, where it sales hitherto had ben comparatively, Wit1LIlA1 48 small, fiIlIl Despite itis recent heavy duty levied by the United States 00 imports of silver foxes and their' pelts, there Is still an incraasing demand in that country for C'anactian silver tox Stock, Ranch -bred silver fox tars are an West Virginia and Missouri. 0 tate five -gaiters should appeal Sestinc- tively to Canadian hoveenten, as the type is virtually unknown in the Do- minion. All through the "horse states" Th alert animated movements of Second Horse - Victim of Flames Authorities Seeking Firebug Stcatforci:—The Lhirdbarn fire .with• l nothing important aqui at the Canadian Pur to 48 Hous, boli0vth to have been set Aid owai Ashton cleelati g sorts of wood furniture to Canada looked some b t tt �tresent under the immediate supervt Sales at Nloatreal, and there are alsolby a ire -bug, Working in this city, more cowardly has happened in the 1 rStOry of Ito est and that ollLlItot ,cave shown a consistent ei' increase 42e over were sous private private onv'e entertainment and 8100 of elle Batticiielcls Comuussl0n."-htdlcations of a marked revival in thereaused 31,000. loss at an early hour On 11 Y,{4 future." graft molts would not ¢ five/ear period, averaging `Lear sol! a opportunities for conversation, leuropeatl market Or these furs iTai1r-. -. nl0rttnt when Hg.u3,s to return the g ft y and evoutually Mr. Snowden got pray cent each with the exception of 1925. I right the wrong, 1 tang g ----- •31271 in the year 1938 an iuelease sacttdees being mado by Aristide feud States and Lo cenhal and waste Stteot 1ho main atom s Pleads the Cause urs the__ _ Largs sales o[ lino Coxae Cor Iounda- mollsiiect a large baro at the eat' di I Mr, ).,anshury added; "I let pe to ar- oak CDnI Iaek I e for sun-bathing by the time next summer Coates roan," Total exports of Canada were 3$1,• Really back .to the Spa percentages, .ton stock are made to the Now Ting- the home 01 Fred Robinson, Milton. ' Victoria Times (Lib.): ('L+'lectrIe rn 1 t Lot was a of 41 per cent, ocer the previous year. Briattd, of Trance, anti M. Charon,'power' can now be generated cheaper' ivatuabde mare, owned by Mr. Robin- Minister of finance in the Preach by steam than by water-power"— led with States and Canada, which, coup- lAccordiug to Canadian customs stn• tort with sltipmeuts to IOuglancl; ecee!eon, which was suffocated before help Government. Thomas Ed[son). This is good news ,could arrive, The other loss besides Ottawa—All existing mends for of Ex -service Men sissies,, the amount of furniture lin. handl Norway; Sweden, Fsauce, Ger- from the United States in 1928 The French delegation suet Great Por Vancouver Island, with her great many, Switeet'laucl, Cuba aid 00101' 1 the frame building Was in harness, trite monthly registration Of new air- ftu0bsc. ThO can' of the el l I ported coal resoureea, With the progress or ut Tont, and .stns .Ona of. hay. t ins 1 old in .vas 7D per cont, of the total imports Britain in the moot friendly sliieit, unci countries, indicate the wile (Retrlbu- i t P Vino rsranglow, pietas e y made sacrifices tmmediatohy, Later marls and economic petteetton lately consequence of. intangible injuries fro mall countries, The United King• tion oC Prince l,idward 'eland Pure- ,euslttned Miring the war, and for din was the nearest nompedt r, fur,lttaly and the remaining nations Poi- attained by high pressure steam tui bred stock, de• Melling 1 per cent, of the total int -lowed suit, and Mr, Snowden went bines, and the use of pulverized coal Whom no pension scheme liar tlyn g Monte, a Atter. under believe built on the unit system, as, viaoo,, swan pleaded eloquently by' parte. the increased eensumittton of coat The projected Chicago skyscraper ,. y E ,-.,_.,•� ;,__.._._ Evan more Important lhinga were a ot the record height 'or just over a. the OOninion Cihn bah, Navy Ve o e . would appear to be assured, Last year • ,. ,.. Performed there than the public loom ` A passing motorist � le believed to be skis the DOntlnlat n, theand Navy Vater• P, mister, (to p 6 ) " , the United Stales used In this way thousand, feet Piths' Assoe[ation, annual eonven• "Ii; rn> ter, I'rn going your way."! ed award of, chief of which was Mr, tion of ^which. Opened antler his chair. Motorist; "So I see; but I'll get thcre'•S1OndersOn's Curtilidt%g of his manse there than 15,000,000 tons or Dither- increasing auanshtp here et Sept, 18, before yo,tr dd." Ito got the British army out 01 Gor- /zed dont outcome of an i in desire to got away Erma the underWOrhl, by the local chief, 1 craft in Canada were broken during The outer two flr08 were on Tues•' the past month wall Lao official tlay 11101'1110g, a valuable raeirig horseing of 52 additional private and real - being lost to One. Another are or un -i more[al planes, A 50 per real, lit ltrloWti origin destroyed tate bowling crease in flying activity was regi.4tetr club clubhouse early last Friday ed over the prevtOtlS tw'Otve menthe. morning, causing over $2,000 damage.' according to officials of the Civil Avian A report is being made to Toronto tion Branch, 'Depar'tment or NottbOual, Da(euce.