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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1929-01-10, Page 7Conference Likely Contract is Lost During January on TO Canadian 'Yard :Rum,.Running Pact Ottawa Orders Two New Destroyers From British Builders Ottawa,--»-Canaciaat ziavel force, at present limited to the destroyer Champlain and Vancouver, and a number of urine swyeepere, will receive sin access of strength in 1931 when tv.o xtew destroyers.: of the "Amazon" times to ioozn largo but with little' to class are delivered. The centred ler suggest that the . big scheme is going the new seen-cf-war was given to to be entered upon --now. Neverthe- 1horneyeroft, Limited, of vuthaiztp- Iess, anything which pertains to it, ton, England, it was announced her, even in part, has to be considered In at; a price of $3,850,000. 'Fifteen ship- relation to the whole. It is probably building fitms submitted teztderabrit- gross rose because or the intensive fight in pro- ot them Canadian and the others Bri gross over the Boauharnois project ish thatthe whole issue is being luny re- Tho destroyers of the "Anis?on" viewed. As the matter now stands an class are the latest type designed and opinion of the Justice Department is are armed with four 4.7 inch guns and Awaited as to whether the essential two anti-aircraft guns. They have eonseia of the Public Works Depart- two triple 21 -inch torpedo tubes. The moat, called for by the Navigablenew vessels are 320 feet long, have a Waters' Protection Act, covers work speed of 35 knots and Barry a comple No.Indicatiort of Embargo Oji Export of Canadian Product ' Ottawa.--Tee.Ilouso will likely as- semble either on the 31st of ,January or the following week. The St, Lawrence question con - such as is proposed when it is in the recut of 1553 officers and men. nature of a partial diversion of the SP1CIAL FEATURES PLANNED. river, When this point is cleared upa Special features to meet the de - a decision is looked for, stands of Canadian climatic conditions Return of Resources. will be embodied in the new znen-o'- war. Consideration must be had of By New Year's clay, it is; e;`peetecl the extremes of climate in Canada that correspondence being exchanged which have the effect of "sweating" with the Alberta Govordnment on the the hull in both summer and winter.. question of the return of its resources' The lire of the new ships is estimated will be made public. Meanwhile, an, at "G years, although they aro be- . :agreement of secrecy is maintained. lievz'd to lsc serviceable for twenty THESE WERE CHRISTMAS DINNERS ON THE HOOF IN ALBERTA Premier Brownlee, on arriving bore, Scare., and probably longer. A scene at Freeman's turkey ranch, adjoining the C.P.R. Experimental farm at Strathmore, alta., stated that, in previous interviews, Ilse note Canadian destzo3 rs arc dreds of the birds are raised in the course of the year. there had been a tentative offer to re- the first war vessels to be ordered and built as such by the Canadian Gower Bootleggers Busy Prince GeorgeNew Terminal n;ent. During the Great War a large number of mine sweepers were con -I _-.-_ • strutted and employed in, the Atlantic j Allege Quebec Liquor Pouring nor kDow �a but in the general concept of warehips• An Xatwtr '' Not Usually AAatatiat 44,41 With the Prairies turn all the resources of the province and continue permanently the eubsidy of some $520,000 annually paid in lieu of them When the proposals are an- nounced, it will likely be shown that this offer le uow definite andofficial and that, In other respects existing conditions are sought to bo maintain- ed, it will be for the local govern- ment to determine whether or not to accept the offer. A deterrent factor in all these west- ern negotiations seems to be a fear by one lest it got n less advantageous bargain than another, although the conditions in each province are not similar. Probably in January there will be a conference on the rum -running treaty with 'the States, the latter desiring some more effective method of check- ing the In flow of liquor insofar as Can- ada is a source of the traffic. While international courtesy suggests the concession ot a conference to hear . what is to be said, no great indication of putting an embargo on the. export of any' Canadian manufactured pro' duct is yet :,presented. Only Perlia- • hent could •Legislate to that' effect; nothing In. the powers it has delegat- ed to the Government authoriing any such prohibitory regulation, Radio Channels. A continuance of the international •uegottations about the allocation of radio channels will occur either next month or in February. leleanwhile the arbitrary assumption at Washing- ton of control of the air of the Ameri- can continent and the declaration there that six channels are quite enough for Canada. is not only ques- tioned but regarded as a presumptu- ous assertion of a right of control that does not exist, in a political way, the West Lamb - ton by-eleotiou will call for attention right after New 'Year's Day. Two weeks will then intervene before poll- ing: if there is a contest. There ap- pears to he high epeeulatiott as to what. will likely happen. When Parliament assembles the promise again is for the Budget con- ing early. The Tariff Board's re- ports on the various cases will be in during January. Changes are expect- ed and it is considered wise to let business know, as early as possible, what they are to be so that any effects from uncertainty may be removed. Afghan Troops Now in Control Rebels Damage Kabul Power Station, Leaving City Without Light Moscow. --The first eonneeied etc- coant of the attempt of Afghan rebels to seize. Kabul has appeared ie the newspapers of Moscow in the form of a radio message from Kabul. Accord- ing to the message, the government troops 'loow have the upper hand and aro bombarding the insurgents who occupied a hill outside Kabul, Six thousand. rebel tribesmen burst Into the city by surprise on Doc 14, and for two or three days the fate of the governanent hung in the balance since there are few troops in the city. The arrival of reinforcements from Kandahar and closer points and the use of airplanes apparently tueneil the tide hi favor of the government fiiilces although the mossnges stetes (hut the battle continues. Three British airptanes appeared over the city during the fighting;. One flying kw was hit by rifle fire and forced to descend to the airdrome. 'hese 'airplanes distributed proclama- tions enrofessing British friendship for the Afghan people and the inten- tion not to intervene in Af;that af- fairs, wanting against any attacks on British missibfns oa` consulates. The rebels damaged Kabul electric stallion,,1eaving the city without light and Stopl)ina the goveratutent radio. Sodden !n In Gold's °!OW Across: Border New York Announcement , that A.nierican Exchatana .being Trust Co. has reeeived an additlozaal $2,000,000 gold from Canada brings the total known to have been shipped or dean- itely arranged for to $14,u00,000 on the December icaoveaneut, In adclitloxs it is reported.. that one ler se Canacliau bank has engaged: $4,000,000, but final proof of this shipment will not be forthcoming until after the New Year when the New York Federal Reserve T3anic 'issues its weekly etaternent ou gold imports aad export. Of the $13,000,000 total, American Exchange Irving Trust Co. has received $6,000,- 000, an unannouneed back $5,000,000 and New 'York Trust Co. $2,000,000. The currant situation p"es' nts see- eral rather unusual factors. In the early fall Montreal funds were first rtuoted at a premium in response to the seasonal reetuzrements for funds to finance the moving or crops. At that time it was expected that gold would flow from New York for that purpose. Pull resulting from high money rates In this centre, however, proved to be too strong and Montreal funds hovered for some time a trifle above or below par. Special measures were resorted to in Canada then to finance crop demands without undue pressure on the Canadian money market. where hun• During the last two weeks of Nov- ember some special transactions, cou- pled with seasonal tendency toward strength in Canadian funds, proved strong enough to overcome the attrac- tioneof the New York money market On St. Lawrence and Montreal funds rose quickly to a Canada has not hitherto built any inl Into Ontario in ar•• Cake for . s)1 the routine course of affairs. Toad Lots V. Prescott, Ont. --What Is to be oneof the largest grain elevators in Can - The Royal Canadian Navy now con- Toronto.—Quebec - Queacc liquor, bearing, to ada is to be erected at Prescott, Ont., tains a personnel adequate to manAuctioning of Pieces Aboard these ships, a considerable number of all appearances, the labelling, stamp- Sii $rincr G dl Sum on the River St. Larrence, -opposite pp P p o y Ogdensburg, 'New York State. This p`' in and other identification marks of the ratings who enlisted in the pest g g the Liquor Commission of that pro- for British Miners elevator which. !,y to be built for the few years having been encouraged to, q T renew their enlistment by the is see �' ince. is repdrted to be pouring into London—Prince George, youngest Canadian Federal Government will p` Ontario in carload lots. these days,son of Iain George V, who readied have a capacity of 5,400,000 bushels at through Parliament last session of the incidentally, to be throwing a Southampton on the Friday before a cost of approximately $4,000;000, It measure which placed them in the anal, fresh problem on the hands of Sir Christmas, enjoyed an anniversary wilt be erected on a spur of land jut - same category asse the militia forces in HenryDrayton. ceremony In his honor aboard the ting out into the river so that vessels the amtter of service pensions. The Tor while this liquor is for reship- I;erengaria on his way home front will bo able to bet tla oil eii'.aer aids terms of enlistment are for seven q P of the elevator for loading' or unload - years, with men pensionable at 14'merit to American destinations .erten- New York. loading'years. The danger of the Canadian sibly, much of it is said to be finding The ship's cooks had prepared a Ing. Work is to begin early ht 1929 sailors abandoning their vocation teas its way back to Ontario bootlegging surprise gift of a large cake for the and the elevator is to be completed in lessened by the passage of this bill. resorts via the "short circuit" route,! Prince, but when it was presented 1930 to eoincl o with the opening of CANADIAN BID TOO HIGHand is being sold and consumed herd hire, bo cut It himself into pieces and the new Welland Ship Canal, a pro - "Everybody would have liked to in direct contravention of the Liguori requested it to be auctioned oft to lett that will represent. when finished have had the contract awarded to a Control Act. This situation is report- augment the London Lord Mayor's Texpenditure of $11x,,000,000. Canadian firm, but the one tender re- ed to prevail particularly along the Fund for relief among the distressed Peeing of the Welland Ship ceived was away in excess of any of border, and recent raids of Windsor, Eritish Miners, It brought $5310. Canal will mean that vessels with a, alio British bidders," stated a al it establishments are said to have un -i The Prince received greetings from length up to over SAO foot and draw- and of • the navyservice re�ardizig covered ample evidence that the Que- friends all over the world; the ship's ing up to 25 feet of water may sail the awarding to the Thorr_eyeroft firm bee brands' are well patronized along a wireless operators were kept busy atl eastward as. Par. as Prescott, where of the contract for the two new Cane the Detroit River water front. day receiving the messages from trans -shipment of cargoes will be mad t II b • radian destroyers. The tenders have Officials of the Quebec Liquor Com-, these. Among them were messages o o oma er oats that can navi- been under consideration since last nussicn, when interviewed last night, I from the King and Queen, and an. gate in the canals between Prescott August.'Ite disparity between the. termed the carload shipments story other froth the Duke ot Gloucester, and Montreal. At present the old British and Canadian tenders ran into aF «W" very much exaggerated." who is on hie way home from South Welland Canal, now used to link Lake some . hundred thousand dollars. It e know nothing at all about it,1'I Africa aboard the steamship Balmoral Erie ..with Lake Ontario, can acoomi- tvas considered too great to justify said L. B. Cord.'au, president of the Castle. modate vessels up ion 260 feet' in the placing of the order here. ...__.,,�______ length, consequently the big lake commission. "There certainly must be — ti some exaggeration here. Che liquor c • . freighters have to transfer their car - bearing our labels may have been tS• l ial�8�rt 1 i�kXna goes if destined for Montrtel- bauglit bottle by battle in our stores[ a_ ��y. Tho new elevator to be built at • in the usual way. It does not Seem Makes Discovery Prescott will. take ease of much of For Ford Factory reasonable, botwe}*er; that carloads of the grain from 'Western Canada that liquor could be obtained in this way Finds. 'i t Grahalll Landis shipped via Port William awl Port Russia Negotiates for shipment." a Arthur at the head of the Great Lakes Capacity for 100,000 Cars, 1lIr. Cordeau was inclined to believe Separated From Polar Ito Europe via 'Montreal Per Year Proposed. I that faked and forged labels may have Continent Says Report e • the reported shipments p5 • g pa selected as the tersuntus of the Huge Radium Dangers c e c it ca rr litx�d d1s l �' —Th Soviet Government Prescott has a population Of less been used by those operators behind , than 3,000, but now that it hos been New Tor): _Th Net; Yore �> zneri freighter boats that sail the Great from Sir Hubert 'Wilkins, explorer, at hakes it remises to become a Great r>e:got.iating with Henry Ford for con- Starvation and the News Deception Island, Antarctic, says that pntuch substantial premium. In those two weeks a total of $ ;2,000,000 gold was- withtlrawu front New York and sent to Montreal. As suddenly as it began, however, the movement stopped and a reversal ' •of the flow set in. Foreign exchange` circles attribute this change to sow eral causes. Completion of the spe- cial transactions mentioned removed this support from Canadian exchange. Call rates in New York stiffening to the highest lerels in all points. In ad- dition there was the severe reaction in the market which resulted in large remittances froze. Canada, as well as elsewhere, to strengthen margin ac- counts. About $30,000,000 gold is expected to come to this city before the move- ment has run its course. Montreal funds are in supply at about '4 of 1% discount. This compares with the gen- erally accepted gold import point of 11-64 of 1%. On occasion of the prev sous flow of gold to this country, rates went even below present quotations. This was taken as an indication that the drain on Canadian gold reserves hart seriously depleted them, This de- pletion has since been partially elle- via.ted through imports from England and natural increase in the country's gold stock through mining operations, but that anxiety is felt regarding the gold stock of Canada la inferred from the apparent reluctance of Canadian banks to ship xuetal hero, leaving that operation, for the most part to date, to New York institutious. xperts Discuss an. rn a r c ei letoscow: e , of is as sti action of an automobile factory in • ' olitriair he bus solved a. problem Which baffled more important centre. It is GO miles Las. ria. from Ottawa, the Canadian Capital r Nation (Nen York): Nine hundred geographers for many years,—proving and is on the main highway from a •he factory would have •t capaeit,:• thousand British miners are on the that Grahans Land is separated frons of 1{10,000 a ttot:tc•liiles per 5 tsr, it verge of starvation, And this is not tli polar continent b°c' an lee -filled Montreal to* Toronto. The two prin- A:es said. cipal Canadian flail;;.}s, the Cana - even front-page news in our press. ebannel. Cit'oginpIiers, it is said, bad The Ilan National and the Canadian Pact - J he ofiicial5 stilt] :mother company We enlarge our headlines for epee- • previously ehougnt that. the mounts na tic connect 1 had made a temi'„tr propend to the taenlar and dramatic disasters at sea; `extended without eiterruption into the e a with the town. C3c'•ernreent• but for the trove -worn conflict of labor heart of the continent. Captain A nutnebr •.,f rtrtits have origin and capital, the dreary round of Wilkins made the observation during' Gr ateti in .Moscn v se�er,tIy Shut POs2 or strike and starve or work and starve a night In the mouoptane San Fran Spee General Motors were coneidering only a little less, Wile have no longer elseo beyond the volcanic mountains Pres building plants in Russia. The re- any but the most easual notice, of Graham Land. poll( U.S. Surgeon -General Plans Program to Attack In- dustrial Problem Washington health hazards in commercial use of rac:•ium, such as the work of painting luminous watch dials, were studied here by 75 scien- eat' influenza is apparently no re- Lists and industrial officials who re - :tor of pc rsozi a. Accrn drag to commended apt ointment of commit- sdespatcher.., iti has evert at#aeked tees to deter' tine whet the standard •e offcials in two large cities. of robustness should be for a radium worker, and to codify and distribute the information. The conference was called by Sur- geon -General Cumming of the Public Health Service to determine a pro - grant by which his office -es rnny attack this newest medical problem of indus- try. Dr. Ethelbert Steward, commission- er of labor statistics, urged that com- mercial use of radium be discontinued entirely. IIe declared that seven or eight persons had died as a result of working with luminous paint contain- ing radium, that five were under ob- servation for suspected radium poison- ing, and that 18 others had shown "radium activity,” or some ill effects. All of this, he asserted, was "for e. fad." DOltrilsaloll Ambassadors ports have never been confirmed in the Unites Stoics. Two Soviet officials, V. T. Ossinski and V. T. Msesh]auk, recently arrived in Berlin and announced they were on route to the .Unites] States to negut:i= ate a `0;{i01hapo automobile deal. The two officials Were unable to secure passport- to t>nter the 'United States, and returned to Moscow. `- 'Quake is Recorded In Phillipine Group,. l4raniio-t, P.I.--A "violent eat-uiquni:e rocked the' Island of Miedanao of the Philippine group during the Werk be- fore Christmas. Castiallies twcro sur- prisingly low, accordin • to first ad- vice$• received here. '111indanoa is situated at thea s6 th- Ei'n end of the island;; Steri is .011Q of the,leageet of the group, Ono person Was killed and several intircd,,the relet'ts'said, Residents of many totste were startled. however, as buildings collapsed and the ground cracked. Most of the damage, which was ; esti- mated at more than $100.000, Was re- ported by the tonus of Cotabato, yani- boange and-flatee. A straight litt,s from east to west would run tbrnu,gh . the three Owns and would also pierce, Maceturing t"nleane. which is near the centre of the island and appios�imale-1 ly rquic]istitnt .from Cotabato and At least 700 Iaritish miners failed to s! -Ike "pay -dirt" In the harvest fields of Western Canada, A Peaceful View of the River of Dispute Ti -IL WIDE FAR t1UAY i7L9W1No ThiriO1JGH QUIET ecaNCs The 1 ;i uu lit^g•, ihrenth Aldo!' Soltyto evens 11outlet to i0 Atlantic, one or the nude cUe E dispute Bets, ern Paraguay and .,o e is o.. I eon Masse: in the National Review (London). Mr. Mackenzie Ding, the Prime MYlinister of Canada, will have seine difficulty in persuading anyone; except those who desire to be deceived, that the appointment of separate Am- bassadors for the different Dominions in foreign capitals can conceivably promote 'the diplomatic unity of the British tnpire. Indeed, his en`liusi- esn. in this cause, in which lie is teals ously followed by General Hartzog, his. South African colleague, can only; Le interpreted as evidence that .his heart is not in the British League of Na- tions, however enthusiastic he may be' about the Geneva variety, tt 10 the phonograph 'toed te tt•e of the tall<Ing inovlo that spealco louder theta words.-� I'Iiiladetlilalaz lucid lrer.