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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1927-05-19, Page 6'.R. TRANS -CANADA NO. 2 WRECKED PLUNGES HEADLONG INTO SLIDE Heavy Rains Cause ' Slide ' Which Proved Fatal to Three Train Men, INJURED MOSTLY ;FOREIGNERS. Port Arthur, Ont, May 15.-Hur- ferred to St. Joseph's .Hospital, where eying through the night with its load doctors and nurses spent a very busy of human freight,, comprised for the Sunday.. The uninjured passengers most part of transcontinental pas- were taken east on the Toronto,. ex and Westerners en route to pry at 8 o'clock this morning. Of gangers the irtjured most serious is William various points in the East, Canadian Pacific passenger train No. 2, this Cellae, 45, Montreal He is not ex - Montreal train, shortly 'before 2e pedto recover,Most of the cars on the wrecked o'clock this morning, ran headlong train were of steel. construction. This into an under -track landslide at Fire fact, in the opinion of railway,offi Hill east of Ni mile - ' ��' 64 s from enols minimized' the loss of life. Soon Pork Arthur. Loeomoklve, mail and after the crash the wooden cafe car, express and a colonist "car left the rails and falling 40 feet down oar embankment, carried with them to death the engineer, fireman and mail clerk, besides causing injuries to 23 other persona, some of them train employes, but most of them passern gers in the forward colonist car, largely Slovaks and Chinese. A large oensignment of east -bound mail was burned. First-class and Pull- man cars having remained on the rails or track -bed because of the breaking of a coupling, passengers therein escaped with nothing more serious than a few bruises, although they did experience the shock attend- ant upon the sense of a midnight dis- aster in an isolated spot, being swdL denly_and rudely roused from sleep in their berths and groping from their cars in the pitch darkness of a cold and rainy night to find the for- e ward part of the train piled over the high embankment, with fire beginning to consume some of the cars while • many injured ones were screaming with pain or crying out in appeal for release from their temporary impris- onment. In the midst of this scene Many of the first-class and Pullman Montreal, May 1.5, --According to passengers made themselves of vain- the official statement, the conditions able assistance do caring for the which resulted in the derailment of caetualties, while in the meantime the the C.P.R. transcontinental train east railway officials were notifying the of Nipigon were most unusual and Fort William and Schreiber head- could mot be foreseen. In the vicinity quarters and calling for relief trains.. of the occurrence the track parallels Among the passengers was Doctor the ur.rkfish River for about a mile, Cauchon, en route from Vancouver to and at the point of the derailment the Ottawa, and he, in association with track is located 120 feet north of the Conductor William Fox, and Mrs. river on clay formation. For a dis- Butler,'nurse, of Port Arthur, direct- tante of 184 feet the land from 20 ed the relief work until the arrival fee north of the track moved 40 feet of the auxiliaries with the -additional toward the river, carrying the railway 4acilities for caning for the injured. embankment with it. The Section had One auxiliary brought the 23 injured been patrolled shortly before the acci- to Port Arthur and they were trans- dent and was all right. the only occupant of which was a negro porter, burst into flames. The fire spread 'rapidly, destroying this car and sweeping into the mail and baggage cars, where it consumed all the mail and parcels. One of the mail men was Severely burned endeavoring to rescue the property 3n his charge, The landslide into which the train ran causing the disaster was evident- ly the result of recent heavy rains, and must have been of a very recent occurrence for the company main- tains a close patrol of these sections. The locomotive, striking the fresh ac- cumulation of earth, and and boul- ders at nearly forty miles an hour, rebounded and, plunging down a 30 - foot embankment, killed the engineer and fireman. The mail clerk was kill- ed h his car. DEAD. JOHN HOGG, engineer, 237 North Syndicate Ave., Fort William: HARVEY SLY, fireman, Schreiber, Onbarid. WIILLIAM L. KIRKPATRICK, railway mail clerk, Brodie St., Fort William. BABY STEALER CONFESSES CRIME Police Pressure Secures True Story. Toronto. -The missing Daley baby was found by the police Friday after- noon. It was in the possession of Mrs, Adrian Pageau, aged 34, a French-Canadian woman, living at 453 ging Street East, who is now held in custody without bail on a charge of kidnapping. After failing to convince with stories of the baby being her own, and of its having been given to her, Mrs. Pageau broke down under police examination and confessed to having lifted it from its carriage in front of the store, taking it home, and telling her husband and fail!' friends that it was her own. CRISIS NOT PAST Danger Still Exists in Lower New Orleans, La. -The Mississippi Louisiana. LIQUOR PERMITS Hanna States it is Likely They Can Now be Had and Sale Probably Commence on May 30. Toronto. -D. B. Hanna, Chairman of the Liquor Control Board, an- nounced Friday that the issuing of permits under the liquor control legis- lation would begin on Tuesday or Wednesday this week, with the latter day as the more probable time. When asked if the new regulations fixing the time of sale and other mat- ters would be before the Ontario Cab- inet on Monday, the Chairman said: "I will be very glad if they ace," Chairman Hanna had a conference with Hon. W. H. Price, Attorney - General, regarding the regulations, which are now practically complete. Nothing was said officially about the date upon which sale will begin, but an effort is being made to make it May 30. CANADA'C POPULATION NEARS 10,000,000 MARK GROWTH OF 600,817 SHOWN SINCE CENSUS OF 1921 flood situation in Louisiana, after a Ottawa• -Canada's population is week during which no serious breaks estimated b ythe Bureau of Statistics in the levee systems occurred and as at 9,389,300. This is 600,817 more a result of which Louisiana had be- than the actual census population gun to hope that the crisis had pass- taken on Jure 1, 1921. The present ed, is again assuming grave proper-' estimate is of the population as at tions to -night, I June 1 last. For the different Pro - Hundred's of thousands of acres of,vinces the present estimate compares cotton, sugar and rice lande are with the census of 1921: threatened with inundation and the I Estimate, Census '21 homes of thousands of persons in the P. Edward Isl.. 87,000 88,615 Southern parisbes are in peril from ' Nova Scotia 540,000 523,837, the Tenses Basin flood waters, which New Brunswick 407,200 387,876 TERRIB are crashing through two major cre- Quebec 2,561,800 2,361,199 vasses in the Bayou des Glaises line, i Ontario 3,145,600 2,933,662 , while other key points in the same i Manitoba 639,000 610,118 eyabem are showing signs of dente -(Saskatchewan ,821,000 757,510 ration and colla se ttt i Alberta 607,000 588 454 time. Brit. Columbia568,400 524,532 Yukon 3,460 4,157 Northwest Ter8,850 7,988 Capt. G. H. Wilkins Who, with his pilot, Ben Melees., aro safe, after having been in the unkne en Arctic since March 29, when they flew I north from Point Barrow to explore !new territory. The trip was made un- der the auspices of the North Ameri- can Newspaper Alliance. F: DELAYSSEARCH OG Elements -Make Patrol Work Hard for Parties Hunting Lost Aces. RUMORS PROVE FALSE. St. John's, Nfld.-Magistrate O'Toole of Conception Harbor report- ed Friday'night that several people there `told• him an areoplane had pass ed over the town at 4 o'clock that afternoon. No aeroplanes are in action about Newfoundland, so far as the authorities were aware. Ottawa. -Foggy weather in Cabot Straits, stretching between Cape' Bre- ton and Newfoundland, is impeding Canadian Government patrol boats in their search for the missing French airmen, Captains Charles Nungesser and Francois Coli. A. wireless report received by the Dept. of Marine and Fisheries this - eventing from the Montcalm states that unfavorable weather coditions are continuing in the water area be- tween Canada and Newfoundland, i Although under "standing orders" to question all steamers plying in the coastal and transatlantic trade routes, the Montcalm and his sister ship, the Mikula, have been unable, it is stated, to obtain any trace of the fliers. 1 All Government radio stations along the Atlantic seacoast are also under "standing orders" to make every human effort possible to find the missing' airmen, but so far their constant vigil has not met with suc- cess. SHOOTING TRAGEDY Evidence of Fiancee of Dead Doctor Taken •Montreal. -Coroner McMahon Wed- nesdav heard an account of the events which led up to Sunday night's shoot- ing `tragedy at the Royal Victoria Hospital from the former fiancee of. Dr, Frank Brown. The woman, whose name is being withheld and who is not connected with the hospital, told the Coroner that for some months she was the fiancee of Dr. Frank Brown, who. put a bullet through his head after wound- ing Dr. J. F. Puddieombe, en interne of the Pine Avenue Institution. Last February, said the girl, the engage- ment was broken, but she and Brown agreed to be friends, despite what had happened. At the time, Dr. Brown told her he was able to reconcile him- self to losing her as a wife, but warn- ed her that if he discovered she was attached to anyone else, he would kill the man. The girl refused to consider this remark seriously. The pair continued to see ;one an- other from time to time, and last Saturday Dr.Brown took his former iliancee for an automobile ride. She then told him that she had fallen in love with Dr. Pudd'icombe. Brown received this information very badly. "I will kill him to -mor- row," he declared, according to what the girl reported to the Coroner. Again she believed he was merely "talking." , g may p any fl Scouts Offer Services Ottawa. -The Boy Scouts' Associa- tion of Canada has offered its services to the National Committee for the Celebration of the Jubilee of Confed- emtttion, and has requested that to it be allotted the task of decorating the graves of the Confederation' Fathers, The association declares, in a letter tsreceived from its head, Dr. J. W. Rob- ertson, that, while it is desirous of rendering all assistance in connection with the celebration, it is particularly desirousof taking on a duty of a con- crete national character, OUR JUBILEE 9,389,300, 8,788,483 The figures for the Prairie Pro- vinces are actual census figures. The 1926 figures for the other Provinces are estimates,• Presbytery Deplores Publish- ing Salacious Details of Court Cases Hamilton. -The salacious appeal of many newspaper reports of current criminal trials, as well as the over- emphasis of sex in many forms of eommerclalized amusement, were con- demned roundly by the Hamilton Presbytery of the United Church. DEATH IN MOTOR CRASH CAR ,SKIDS IM SUBWAY Toronto. -When his motor car skidded on' the car tracks in the King street subway at Parkdale, crashing head-on into one of the steel pillars at 12.10 'Thursday, Charles J. Mc- Cabe, aged 34, of 569 Windermere avenue, secretary -treasurer of McCabe & Co,, Lt., funeral directors, was thrown head first through the wind- shield indshield and his jugular vein was sev- ered. He was able to get out of the car, and stood holding his throat'un- til assistance arrived, but he died a few minutes later in the Toronto Gen- eral Hospital. Mr. McCabe had been travelling west on the ear tracks and evidently when attempting br tern to the right on the roadway his car skidded and dashed headlong .into the pillar, crushing the radiator back against the engine. SUDBURY CRIME SCOTLAND YARD SWOOPS ON SOVIET SHOWS BIG F IGIA'1 Strong Detachment of Authorities Investigate Russians' P. oce edimgs. A Desperate Bandit . Met a Brave Powerful'Victim. BOTH DEAD. Sudbury. -No - definite conclusion has been reached as to the actual ci•r- cunttancaa surrounding the double shooting affray on the Sudbury -Con iston I3i'ghway Friday night, when Joe Martel, a Sudbury jitney -driver, and :a man believed to be John Hud- son of Comberreere, Ont.,' both came to their death. Hudson has not been identified, but his record and identi- fication are being traced' down just as rapidly as the machinery of the law can work. There is every indication, police state, that Martel was hired to make the trip from Sudbutytto Coniston by Hudson, the motive being robbery. Both men were in the front seat of Martel's sedan, and it would' appear that Hudson drew his gun, but Mar- tel was too quick and too powerful for him. Indications aro that Martel applied his brakes and 'attempted to bring his car under control, when Hudson .pulled another gun and Nlar tel let go the steering wheel. The car, travelling apparently 30 to 35 miles an hour, collided with a heavy fence at turn in the road, with; the -nen in a death grip. The impact probably caused both guns to be discharged, one shot entering Martel's temple .and the other drilling a two-inch hole through Hudson's heart and body. Both guns belonged to Hudson, and he had on his person, in practically every pocket, about 100 cartridges. Martel was unarmed. He was a quick, powerful man, and, doubtless would have bested his man; had he had his car under control. The` affair is very similar to the'. murder of Guiseppe Justi., a Sudbury' jitney driver, who was clone to death on the 'Sudbury-Garson road lest No-' vember. Comparison of the bullets, which are of a peculiar type, made for a Browning automatic revolver, would indicate that Just and Martel came to their death by the same hand. ONYY' POPE DIES • IN CHANCE FIND Chief Interest Centre Around' the Fate of Trans -Atlantic Flyers St. John's, Nfld.-Possibility 'that the search for the missing French transatlantic fliers, Nungesser and Coli, may be narrowed down consida erably, was strengthened Thursday night when two responsible citiens of Harbor Grace, 63 miles north of here, testified before Magistrate John Casey of that place that they had distinctly heard an aeroplane pass over near their homes through the mist of last Monday. morning, • Patrick O'Brien declared that while working in his field on a highland about a mile from the shore, he heard the "hum" of an aeroplane motor. It was 9.30 o'clock (Atlantic standard time) . Captain John Stapleton, another resident of Harbor Grace, declared that at the same hour he was in town and heard an aeroplane -rotor, the machine seeming to pass in a north- easterly direction, He did not see the plane, but was not surprised owing to the thick weather. A report was current Thursday that the French plane had been heard at Placentia also on Monday morning, but this could not be confirmed, AGED MAPLE MAN OVERCOME BY GAS b Taranto.. Rob ert Watson, a ed 75, formerly of Maple, Ont., was found dead late Wednesray afternoon in a sitting position on a chair near a gas !stove in the kitchen of his daughter's apartment, in the Willard Apart- ments, King street and Triller avenue. discovered that the pilot Police a light was out and gas was still pour- ing from one of the burners, Close, to the gas stove was a window which had been hoised a short distance. It is thought that thewind blew out the gas lights, and that Mr. Watson was silting near the stove and was over- come before he smelled the deadly. fumes. JUDGES APPOINTED Ottawa. -Official announeetnenk of threejudicial apopintments was made Thursday. J. C. Moore, barrister, Wiarton, Ont., has been appointed Judge of the County Courtof the County of Dufierin, to succeed the late Judge Scellen, William Arthur Dowler, K.C., Fort William, Ont.,, has been appein' Judge' of the 'District .Court of the Provincial Judicial District of Kenora. G. F. Mahon, barrister, Woodstock, Ont., has been appointed Junior Judge of the County of. Essex, in succession to Judge Smith, who recently retired. The new Judge of Duiferin County is a son of the late John T. Moorc,• one time Toronto Alderman, for whom Memo Park, Toronto, was named. THOUGHT THEY COULD TWIST LION'S TAIL WITH IMPUNITY AND IMMUNITY. Lopdon.-One of the most specter- ises. They were allowed to so, how- uiiar raids in London's historic "finan- ever, before the search in earnest be - Bial district took place Friday when be- gan, but the officials were detained 45 men from Scotland Yard swooped and closely questioned by Scotland Yard -men throughout the evening. down upon the Soviet House in Moor- Sir Wyndham Childs of Scotland gate and took charge not only of the Yard, who was in charge of the raid, Arcos offices, but of the quarters oc- informed the Associated Press' late cupled by the Russian Trade Delega- Friday night: "No arrests yet." Other Hon, whose officials are supposed to officials said the search was.liliely to be immune from arrest, continue all night and to -morrow, but The Scotland Yard men were re-, none gave any intimation of the cher- actor of the evidence sought. '. Asked if the raid lied any bearing upon the Pekin raid and the docu- ments unearthed there, the officials took the view that the raid was abso- lutely without any political signifi- cance and had been brought about by evidence in the hands of the author- ities which convinced them that they were justified in seeking a police i P r ed b Y60 uniformed policemen who surrounded the five -storey build- ing, and no one was permitted to enter .er depart without permission. Acting under the instructions of the Home Office, they took complete charge of the-mitire building, and well on to midnight the search was; continuing.• The raid which began shortly be- fore 5 o'clock in the afternoon, was search warrant for*the entire build- carried out under the authority of a ing, search warrant issued by- a Guildhall ° Sir William Joynson-Hicks, the Magistrate upon request of White- Secretary, authorized the police to hall officials, who presented evidence apply immediately to a Magistrate designed to convince the Magistrate for a search warrant. Application that the laws of the country had been was made Thursday to the City court violated, and that on this account and the warrant was duly executed. drastic steps were deemed necessary Earlier' in the day, Scotland' Yard in the interest of public safety. , had supposed the police would need The employees of Arcos, a corpor- to go to Plymouth, Newcastle and ation which controls Russian trade, other towns to execute raids, but fin - as well as the employees of the Trade ally these instructions' were cancelled Delegation, were taken completely by and,it was decided 'to -search the Arcos surprise. Before they had time to Building. alone. ' realize what had happened the build- The Daily -Mail declares that some ing from attic to cellar was in the of the Soviet staff showed hostility to hands of detectives, who endeavored the police during the early part of. to gain control of papers and don- the raid, especially in the safe depart- ments and took measures to prevent ment, and it was accordingly consid- any slipping from their grasp. Con- ered necessary to furnish each police. sternation prevailed among the clerks man witha revolver and ammunition. and typists, girls and young oven, and It adds that the police found rifles for more than an hour not one of , and "life -preservers" on the premises, them was permitted to leave the prem- I which were confiscated. MANITOBA FLOODS west of the city the Assinibome was I[ on the rampage, swirling waters cov'- GROW SERIOUS SITUATION GROWS GRAVE AS TOWNS "ARE THREATENED the same time. ening thousands of acres -of farm lands in the Marquette and Poplar Point districts. In Winnipeg, both the Red and the Assinlboine showed a rapid rite, but damage is not feared in the city un- less the rivers both reach a peak at. Winnipeg. -The Seine, Red and Beer Travels as Tires Assiniboine• Rivers continued to rise __ rapidly Thursday, threatening addi- • Hamilton. -Tho process of canon- tional towns and farm lands in var- ious sections of Manitoba. The most serious situation was re- ported at St. Anne, on the banks of the Seine River, 29 miles southeast of Winnipeg. The swollen waters of .the Seine, fed by recent rains, spread over the southern section of proved, according to evidence, to con - the little village Thursday, and were rapidly advancing toward the busi- tain largehquantifies of Canadian ale. One shipment of scrap automobile nese section. Several residents were tires turned out to be 38,000 bottles of marooned in their homes, while in the Canadian ale, packed in barrels and farming districts to the south of St. screened with old tires .at the doors Anne many persons have abandoned of the oar, and scattered over the con- their•houses. Roads have -been inun- dated and traffic bridges flooded. The flood waters covered a large area of As nothing reveals character like farm lands in the southeastern sec- the company we like and keep, so no- tion of the province, thing foretells futurity like the To the south of Winnipeg, the. Red thoughts over which we brood. -New - River is rising rapidly, while to the ell Dwight Hillis. flaging beer -laden railway freight cars in an effort to get thir contents into the United States was developed further for the benefit of the 'Royal Customs Commission here. Cars of "contractors' equipment," of scrap leather" and of "automobile tires" tamers. • Markets • ib. tins, 13a/a to 13siiac; 5-11.. tins, 14 to 14a,te; 2% -lb. tins, 16c. Comb honey -$4 to 35 per 'dozen. PROVISIONS. TORONTO. Smoked meats -Hams, • med., 30 to Grain dealers on the Toronto Board 82c; cooked` tame 18e; smoked of Trade wets making the following barolks 25c;breakfast less, 32st �42c. acon, 28 to 33e; quotations, per car lots: Cured meats--Long3clear bacon, Man. wheat -No. 1 North., 31.60; 60 to 70. lbs„ 321; to 90 lbs., $1n, No. 2 North., 31.56; No. 3 North,, 90 to a l lbs., and to 318; light- 31,49, cabay ports. - weight rolls, in barrels; 311.50; heavy- Man, oats, ; '2 1 feed, nominal:; No weight rolls, 338.50 per bbl. 3, not quoted, No. 1 feed; 633ee; No. Lard -Pure tierces 14 to 14%c; 2 feed, nominal; western grain quota - tubs, 15 to 15a,tc; palls, 1514 to 16c; Am corn, Toronto freigl•.ts-No. 1 e kiln dried, prints, 1638 to 17c; shortening tierces, yellow, kiln dried,98c• $'l; No: 3 yellow 13Sic 'i tubs, 13%c; pails, 14°/1c; blocks . Millfeed=Del. Montreal freights,' and tins, 16a/1c•Heavy beef steers, 38.75 to 39.25; bags included: Bran, per ton, $32,25; do, fair, $8 to $8.50; butcher shorts, per ton, $34.25; middlings, steers, choice, 38.75 to 39; do, fair $40.25. to good, 37.50 to $8 butcher heif- Ont. oats, 50c f.o.b. shipping points, ers, choice $8.25 to $8.75; do, corn., Ont. good milling wheat -$1.30, f. $6,75 to 3'x.25; butcher cows, good t:a o,b. shipping points, according to choice, $6.75 to $7,50; do, fair to ood, freights. $5.26 to $6; do, con. to med., 4.50 Barley -Malting, 72c. to 36; do, canners and cutters, $2.50 to BuckwRye-No. heat -72, $1,5c,00n,ominal $4; butcher bulls, good to choice, 36.50 to $7.25; do, med., $5.25 to $5.96; do, Man. flour -First pat., in cotton, bolognas, $4.60 to 35; baby beef, $8.50 $8.65; in jute, 38.50; Toronto, second to $12.00; feeders, choice, $7.00 to pat., in jute, $8. 37.50; do, fair, 36,25 to 36.75; stock- Ont. flour -Toronto, 90 per .cent., ers, choice, 36.50 to 37; do,.fair to patent, per•barrel, incarlots, Toronto, coed., $5.E0 to $6; springers, 380 to 35;40; seaboard, in bulk, 35.60. , 3110; milch cows, $76 to $90; plain rRonucn. to med. cows, $45 to $65; calves, Wholesalers are offering produce to choice, 310,50 to 312; do, mei, $8 to retailers at the following prices: $9; do, corn., $6.50 to $6; lambs, choice Cheese -New, large,. 17c' twins, $14 to 314.50; bucks, $11 to $11.60; 17% to 17%c;. triplets, 17% to 17?/ac; sheep, choice, $8 to 38.50; do, heavies, Stiltons, 20c; Old, large, 20c; twins, 36 to 37.50; do, culls, 34 to, $5; hogs, r, w.o.c. 10.7 do t ick aselects,w h Old Stiltons, bacon'$ 20 /1c. 0 23c. Butter -No. 1 creamery, 40c; No, smooths, w.o.c., 310.25. 2, 88c. Dairy prints, 34 to 35c, Eggs-1+'re•ih extra', in cartons, MONTREAh.. 35 to 36c; fresh extras, loose, 35c; fresh firsts, 33c; fresh seconds, 29 to' The demand for Spring and Win - 30c i ter wheat grades of flour was of a Poultry, dressed -Spring chickens, firrnnrted character, but prices were 55c; chickens, 5 lbs. up, 400; do, 4 to 6 lbs. 38c; do, 8 to 4, lbs., 350; do, 238e The•e trade in millfeed was fairly to 84!,u, 34c; br„ilers, 1% to 21,a lbs„ active, and prices ruled steady. The 58c; hens, over 5 lbs., 32c; do, 4 to 6 demand for standard grades of rolled lbs;.80c; do, 3 to 4 lbs„ 28c; roosters, oats was quiet but values wore -un - 25e; turkeys, 46 to 47c; spring duck- changed.Quotations , were: lings, 38c. 1 Oats, CW, No.'2, 76ai c; do,' No. 3, Beene -Can. ,hand-plceed, .33.60 to 69c. 'Flour, Mon.: spring wheat pats., $850 hushe , prunes, $3.45 to 33.60. firsts, $8.50; do, seconds, 38; do, Maple -products-Syrup, per imp strong bakers, 37.80; winter patents, gal., $2.25 to $2.30; per 5 gal., 32.15 choice, 35.90 to 36. Rolled Oats, bag to $2.25 per gal.; maple sugar, lh„ 25 o 90 lbs., 43.40 to $3.50. Bran, 332.25. to 26c. i Shorts, $34.25. Middlings, 340.25. I:toney-60-1b.'tins, 13 to 1.3%c; 10- IIay, No. 2, per ton, car lots, 314,50. DUNCAN FINDINGS HELP °MARITIMES Demands Met and Industry -. Assisted. Public interest is very' largely con - Med upon the, Maritirnes' these days and from all indications brighter and more prosperous days lie ahead of • these three provinces. The report of the Duncan Commission, appointed to investigate Maritime grievances, : has been officially accepted almost in its entirety, thus going a long way to - ward's meeting Maritime demands, and in addition circumstances largely adventitious are combining at the present time • to guarantee for the Maritisne Provinces greater acbivityL and reasonably greater prosperity. Briefly .summed up the principal recommendation of the Duncan Com mission approved by Parliament are as followsi-A 20 per cent, reduction ... in freight rates on traffic which orig- inates.at stations in the Atlantic re- gion, including' export and ` import traffic by sea from and to that region and the application of the 20 per cent. reduction also to the Atlantic region h rates proportion of the through on All •a traffic which originates at stations on the Atlantic region (excluding im- port traffic by sea) and destined to points outside the Atlantic region. An immediate lump sum subsidy payment" to the three Maritime. Provinces of $1,600,000, divided as follows': Nova Scotia $875,000, New Brunswick $600,000; and Prince Edward Island $125,000. Establishment' of harbor commissions at Halifax and Saint John. Immediate' attention to the need's of Prince Edward Island in res- pect of an institution for.techpical education with special reference .to agriculture. Appointment of a dep- uty -minister to deal solely with fish- eries questions. ncouragement of the coking of Canadian coal with provi- sion for a bounty of 50 cents a ton on coke made from Canadian coal THE MISSISSIPPI New Orleans, La. -The Bayou des Glaises levee, a break in which will flood great areas of some of the rich- est sugar parishes in Louisiana, is still holding. Since early Wednesday morning the entire State has been watching the battle in the Acadian country, where thousands of men. labor to hold in check a vast sheet of water, approxi- mating in area more than 500,000 acres, while through it surges the turbulent currents' of the Mississippi, the Red, and the backwater torrents of the Arkansas. Shortly after midnight Thursday morning word came from the Bayou des Glaises that the levee was "tot- tering" and that its collapse was only. a question of a few hours. But the line still holds, while the men of the sugar lands battle on in a supreme effort to save the "Sugar Bowl" from the deluge. Along the 70 -mile front, in which the Bayou des Glaises is the most im- `R portant link, 25,000 planters, tenants, laborers, white men and black, strive to accomplish what engineers declare is, according to all the rules, an im- possible task, But no word suggesting surrender comes from the battle zone. Water is reported seeping through weak places in the centre. Waves, wash, as they call the river combers down this way, are eating at the tops of the levees. And the crest of the Red River flood is still 24 or perhaps 48 hours away. At the same time the crest of the Arkansas backwaters is moving steadily and irresistibly to the south. The extreme gravity of the situa- tion in the Red River zone is intensi- fied by the fact that hood waters everywhere, south of Natchez, even. at New Orleans, are rising. Aeroplanes Will Fature. Aeorplenes Bearing - - Messages From An Lieutenant -Governors May Con- verge on Capital as Confederation Dtmonstration • Ottawa. -At a well -attended meet- ing of the National Committee` for the celebration of the Jubilee of Con- federation held Thursday, the ques- tion of arranging for aeroplane flights en July 1 was broadly discussed, : It has "been suggested that from various parts of the Dominion flights could. be arranged, with Ottawa as theob- jective, and that the pilots could bear messages from the Provincial Lieu- tenant -Governors to his Excellency the Governor-General. It was the general.opimlon of the committee that such a demonstration of this vast ad- vance in transportation since Con- federation would bea most spectac- ular, appropriate and interesting fea- ture, not only to tho pointsfrom which the flights were started, and to the Capital, at which the flights should conclude, but to all parts of Canada over which the various machines took their way. The Canadian Air Force has offer- ed to co-operate in every way with respect to this phase of the celebra- tion,but, naturally, have not suffi- cient equipment to cover the Domin- ion, so that the co-operation of the "arious provinces and commercial ; flying' companies would have to be enlisted.