Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 10, 1925, Winnipeg, Manitoba Temperature Winnipeg one press thermometer readings . April 10 april 9 Laiso april 2.30 a. 10--------------- for full weather report of meteorological office see Page one. And moderately warm. Sun rises. S.47 Sun Sola 19.13. Moon rises 21.14 Moon Seta Winnipeg Friday aired Price 5c copy edition Vilh comic 0c. 18-pages m Quebec i Glaze starting on Sawmill sweeps Flamand near Joliet to 1 3 families homeless Mil Anil buildings and eight houses destroyed by flames swept by High wind brigades of Montreal and Juliette control outbreak after fierce film lasting most of Day cigarettes smoked in Canada last year Ottawa april the cigarettes manufactured in Canada in the fiscal year ended in 1924, nearly two and a half billions were smoked in Canada. Cana Dian factories rolled cig Rattes that year and exported about ten millions. That left about 270 ready made Gaspers n year for every Man woman and child or about one a Day of sundays holy Days and lenten Days Are excluded. 1 of the cigars made in Canada were smoked at Home and Only exported. Imported cigars to the number of were consumed be sides. It works out at about 30 cigars year head of popu lation. Confidence voted in financial programme after Wrang Ling debate real struggle to come Senate in mood to punish him and Premier has no Safe majority there 9. Thirty Joliette were Render necessary to Willlam copping a or a Var from Joliet to. Harris admits before Ontario committee he made false entries in books visited by provincial police inspector at request of chairman of probe of nearby dwellings. Destroyed Ami of tvs others dam a a d the outbreak was under con at 4 o clock Onia afternoon but until late at night the men from Montreal and the Juliette firemen played streams of water on the threatened area to prevent a recur estimated at estimates of the damage run As a h As poor water pres sure added to the difficulties and Only a. Terrific fight brought the fire under control. This is year it Krneti. S that the copping Mill has been Arkansas City Firo still raging Anso Cluttil truss . Arkansas City ark., april Kire. Which originated late yesterday in i Indian Resit Toronto april consideration will be Given tis the evidence adduced before the Public accounts committee of Tho Ontario legislature regarding the provincial securities corporation George k. Harris and under con j f. C. Biggs Bond transactions at Torney general w. It. Nickle stated toiiight., so far the minister has received no communication from the committee which recommended that the evidence be submitted to him for consideration and necessity or Harris admitted before the committee today that he had made false entries in Tho books of the corporation and would take responsibility for them. He emphatically de Nied that or. Biggs the former min ister of highways had Ever got a cent of tie 5m.ooo profits made by Tho provincial securities. After he had Given evidence he went Straig it to his office in Hamilton to was visited by inspector John Miller of third time in Twenty the provincial motored of l in Ruvim us Gnu Muir eur lumber Yard of the h 3 buildings to in manufacturing company Here still was unchecked this afternoon. Approximately two thirds of Tho approximately feet of lumber stored in Yards had been destroyed and tie flames had spread to within d Short distance of the company s Hill rallied at the loss to the lumber Stock was estimated in excess of fire at Newark . Associated i Rehs Newark ., april the Plant of Igoe Brothers Nail manufacturers at Newark was destroyed by fire tonight with an estimated loss of in property and Stock. Tho Haze levelled the seven buildings of the Isoe firm and the factory of Holmes and Rice. Breaks Force of fall Sailor Falls 22 feet. Into hold on top of Comrade both injured Chi admin Tress despatch Prescott ont., april presence of William Kingston of Prescott. In the hold of the steam ship. Huoy probably saved the life of joints Bainbridge a Sailor yesterday Ivhon the latter fell 22 feet from the Lieck Ami landed on Kingston Knock ing him unconscious both will re Lover but Are suffering from Shock. Ter View or. Harris at t to request of William Finlayson Clairman of the committee. Committee concludes business the committee concluded its 1925 business this afternoon following the submission of Evicci from 13. Flatt Hamilton real estate Man a Bray highways department and or. Biggs respecting the . Continued on Page two metropolitan Peter is or. Tikhon s successor special United a ivs Cable to free Tress by Jayeo press private wire by John o Brien Paris april chamber of deputies voted Confidence in Premier edouard Herriot s financial pro Ramic after a wrangling session which was dominated by a fighting speech from the lips of the socialist statesman. Herriot obtained a majority of otes after a reasoned statement that exposed the True condition of French finances for the first time since the War. The vote was 291 to packed galleries act benches welcomed the Premier in lha preliminary ordeal in the chamber. His Victory there merely emphasizes the ominous tent in the Senate where Herriot is expected to appear tomorrow to p sent his arguments and ask for sup port. Tho Senate adjourned before he got around to it today but not before further embarrassing the government by its voting censure on the minister of education Francois Al Bert. Albert has been on the Senate griddle for nearly a week and his appearance Lias been marked by series of blistering troubles. The censure vote was expressed in a motion to make a nominal reduction in seized liquor stolen prisoner in Sarnia jail confesses theft of 42 bottles Tuii Nadyn press despatch Soma. Ap-11 Miles of liquor part a Large seizure stored in the county jail by seriously disappeared and mag Istrate Gorman had practically All prisoners of the jail before him i jigs afternoon at a special court. Mcdougall pleaded guilty of stealing the liquor and was remand w for sentence while five other prisoners admitted receiving stolen and were Given seven Days penalty. Former assistant to head of rus Sian orthodox Church acting associated Tress Cable Moscow april 9. Metropolitan Peter chief assistant to the most or. Tikhon who died yester a will be the new head of the russian orthodox Church until the question of a permanent incumbent been settled. Or. Tikhon will o buried sunday morning. A solemn requiem High mass for r Tikhon in More than a undred High Church dignitaries article rated was celebrated today is the Long line of mourners filed ast Tho coffin one Bishop the old cloth shrouding the patriarch and fervently embraced the body everal . Saskatchewan woman killed walking on a . Tracks Pell prom Cliff top Capillapo Canyon victim believed to to a m. Fraser of Vancouver Nii Adlynn press despatch North Vancouver b.c., april while no Trace of the body of the Nan who to death on Mon. Day afternoon from the top of. The lift at Capillapo Canyon has been found he is now thought to have been Arthur m. Fraser Well known n Vancouver insurance circles. Or. Fraser it is reported has been missing for a week. V i can Nairn press despatch Val Jean april Wra Adette Michel wife of Eudosie Farmer was instantly killed mis afternoon when hit by Canadian racist a railway train number 1, westbound. Mrs. Michel was walk "8 Home along the tracks after is at Valjean. Votes Confidence in pre s financial programme will come in the Liiri in fire Startin 0-it, at Sawmill Village Flamand says he is de make army even More instrument of italian Power euro Why Ellingson Matricides in in six hours after deemed 1. Decease counsel in Myers Case of o witness being under sur Veteran taken from sick bed "s.ptlzed, Dies in tub probe is 1. President of Northern Pacific Rall is visitor in 3 dead of St. Boniface drops a at his 1. Ord Dick is elected president of 3. Veterans will assist in dec ring estimates Are great ii 3. As. Fellowship closes its sea 3. Continued on Page St. Boniface resident drops dead at work Fred Jones 52 years old 344 Youville Street succumbs Fred Jones 3d4 Youville Street St. Boniface dropped dead while at work on a building on Kingston St. Vital at 4 o clock yester Day afternoon. Or. E. T. Etsell was immediately summoned but found the Man dead on. His arrival. Or. Provincial Coroner was also quickly on the scene. He ordered the remains to Coutu s undertaking Parlours pending the official investigation. It was announced last night that an inquest be held at. The undertaking Thistl Norris Rig. Jones was 52 years of age and unmarried. He had been enga Teu by tames. A. Fraser contractor to on the construction of the basement of a building and had Only come inned in or. Fraser s service yesterday morning. Apparently in Normal condition. He. Had ing Barrow loads of Cement to the masons. He had delivered a Load Ani was returning for another when he fell to Tho ground unconscious. The deceased is survived by brother believed to be resident in Owen ont., and a sister mrs Howie living in Michigan. President Beatty s denial of change says company undercutting 3etersen of Good standing canal in press despite i Montreal april 9. The. Form is one of Good standing and Well known to Thomas Harlinski of Thomas Harling and sons steamship agents said Here today when questioned As to his knowledge of. Donald. Mcleod British shipping who Accord in to London cables has made an to the Canadian to establish a ten Steamer line service for a subsidy lower than the government proposes to pay sir William Petersen. Says none contemplated amont railway s higher officials b. W. Beatty president of the can Adian Pacific railway sends the Fol lowing message in regard to rec in reports of important changes Amon leading officials of the company the rumours of changes among the company s higher officials As reported in a least one Western newspaper Are entirely without foundation. Kon Ara in contemplation. You Are a Liberty to publish an. Emphatic de keep Hundredth. Birthday of lord Haldane s clothe special Cable free press april 9. Lord Hal Dane s Mother celebrated her 100th birthday today with her distinguished three sons and one daughter Scotland s grand old r Long Telegram from the Queen Mothe Alexandra wishing her Happl nes the rest of her life. Mrs. Haldan appears in the Best of health. Proposes next Ontario House have 112 member Canadian Tress Toronto april 9. Ontario s nex legislature will consist of 112 Mem Bers an increase of one seat according to the majority of the re distribution come tee. Rural Riding will lose members and the urba districts Benefit by increased representation. Mussoff Ghisays he will make army More decisive instrument of Power special Cable to the free press Nna 1 York times. Rome april taking Over the ministry of War this morn following the resignation of general Digiorgio Mussolini addressed a proclamation to the army cd five. In . I _ therefore Buncom Der and that the army in faithful to its ancient Trade. Which Are based on the follow rigorous abstention from activity both open and of duty Iron the other armed forces of the stat meaning the fascist an above All an absolute Devotion to the King and ends by prompts ing to provide the army with the Means necessary to bring it to fun efficiency. Mussolini showed he Hasi a Sens of humor today in a the mayor of to Mezzo asking him to desist from his scheme of placing commemorative Tablet in a Schor where the Premier taught eighteen years ago. The Telegram says a see newspapers that Yoa propose place a Tablet in Tol Mezzo school i memory of my sojourn there eight be years ago. Please collected to some Scholastic Charlt i have no desire for being trans formed Jinto Marble before my time. Try in 1950." a King recovering under sunny skies of progressing rapidly to his former healthy taken in Italy indicates. It shows him with the Queen and Cardinal. Maffi one of the most important members of the sacred College in Pisa one of the places he is visiting on his recuperative tour. War Veteran taken from sick bed and baptized Dies in tub probe ordered r. A. Bonner raises objections in hearing of Myers charges four witnesses heard special in Ltd despatch to free press by 1 ree 1 is pm ate wre Delaware Ohio april 9. A postmortem examination of the body Oft Willlam h. Mccoy. 27 year old world far Veteran was ordered tonight. Y prosecutor Eugene Owens. Mccoy who had been ill for weeks Voth died today immediately after he had been lowered nto the baptismal tub. The service Vas performed by the. J. H. Ennel of the Church of Christ in Springs Ohio at the re West of Mccoy s wife and his j. M. Wilson. Mccoy s illness had been known or some time act his death caused i great stir in the neighbourhood. Toss Tutor Owens i was called and in he absence of the regular Coroner magistrate Earl Bandemar who conducted the postmortem will As Cert Iii. If the baptism caused Mccoy s death. Says he will press the investigation to de Termine whether anyone was Crimin ally responsible for Mccoy s death declares he has already Learned that or. And mrs. James Glassborn Mccoy s Foster parents objected to the ceremony and appealed to. Or. H. Feaster and or. J. K. Tames. Both physicians advised against the rite but Wilson the father in Law and mrs. Mccoy decided to go ahead with the ceremony. Wilson chased the tub Anil. Filled it with water. The War Veteran was then lifted from his sick bed and immersed. Witnesses say that Mccoy was dead when removed trom the tub. Antoine. Fortin tells How he has been continuously accompanied by detectives j mildly. Incensed that Crown wit Nesses in the Bingo Case should he kept under surveillance by Detec Tives while City a. A. Bonnor k.c., leading counsel the defence held Forth at some the City police court yesterday afternoon ii at the continuation of the. Preliminary hearing in the Case , manager of the Bingo Gold mine limited facing1 four charges of Malc ing Alge statements with intent to defraud. Magistrate sir Hugh John Macdonald heard the Case. Or. Bonnar stated there was a Section in the criminal code specifically pre venting this and characterized the proceeding As the most extraordinary thing he had Ever seen perpetrated in a British court of Jjustice. The Case was remanded to tuesday morning. Five witnesses were examined and Cross examined including Antoine Torton the Man Wanless listed him in shaking out the Sample sacks at the mine Joseph Alexander Herb Lake a us Johnson the. Pas Waller s. Gillis Herb and t. Stanley Herb Lake storekeeper for a while at the mine. Vortin was first placed on the stand and examined by a. J. An clerks of Saskatoon Bank capture Bandit wan who stages second hold up in two Days is knocked out Canadian. I Friiss despatch Saskatoon sask., april 9. The Canadian. Bank of Commerce main office Here was .ati.10.30.thia morning by a Young Man at the Point of a shot Guia. The youth afterwards identified As John 20. Of City and Beli so so to be Dame Tea was captured by three employees of the Bank and placed under Arreol after he had got into the Bank vault. Several shots were fired but no Orre Dlugos was identified As the same Man who at 1. O clock wednesday morning broke into the Bank by breaking a window with his list calling upon a. S. Wright probation officer to assist him. He then escaped before the police arrived. Dlugos. Entered the Bank and Al Lowed several of the Many custom were inside to pass him. Or Dering the staff to throw up their hands he ordered the paying Teller to hand him his Cash. He then went to the vault. One of the clerks shut the door on him but owing to a steel plate on the floor it was left ajar. Dlugos poked the Shotgun through tha aperture and fired both barrels. Coming out was set upon by three clerks one whom wrested the gun from his. Hands and struck the Bandit Over the knocking him out and breaking the butt by the Force of the blow. Shot playmate Teddy me Linquist brought to St. Boniface Hospital special despatch to the free Tress Elm Creek Man., april seven Miles from Here this Teddy Malmquist 15 years of age was accidentally shot in the by playmate with a 22 Rifle. The boy was rushed to Elm Creek by or. M. S. Kennedy and accompanied by his father and or. Azoulay left Winnipeg express for St. Boniface Hospital. Lat St reports last night from St. Boniface Hospital were that the boy was still in the operating room and said to be in a somewhat serious condition. Large freighter being built at Midland ont., for lakes Canadian press despatch Midland ont., april than 200 men Are now at work at the mid land shipbuilding co., Yards where the keel freighter is be ing Laid. The new vessel will have a sixty foot beam a depth of 32 feet and Nineteen foot draft and a carry ing capacity of tons. The new freighter will be t Airty six feet larger than the a 562 Bot boat launched Here last novem Ber and which i now ready for her Maiden trip Are among the largest Ever built in Canada great lakes service. Franco turkish pact will be of toe scope France to assume role played by Germany before the War special Cable to Tho free constantinople april 1m treaty of. Alliance Between France and Turkey is in process negotiation in Angora. The basis of the treaty was established last week by Henri Franklin Bouillon French envoy and Mustapha Kemal the turkish presi Dent. Under it France assumes Opo Listic political and financial role Germany played. Be fore the War. Turkey guarantees the integrity of Syria and. France gives Turkey greater control of the Bagdad railway and establishes an autonomous regime in the districts of Alex Andretta Antioch and Aleppo. But the Alliance is of much wider scope foreshadowing Franco Turk ish co operation on. European As Well As Asiatic questions. One sign of the new relationship is that mus Tapha Kemal is going to France in May or june to discuss Between the two countries. Another is that the French government is sending a big military Mission to Turkey under general Mougin and Turkey is sending a similar Mission to France. Vimy Ridge message shows value of Unity says maj Gen. Sir a. C. Macdonell can Linn. Press despatch Kingston ont., april Gen sir a. C. Command ant of the. Royal military College who was in command of 7th Cana Dian infantry Almy and later commander of the 1st Cana Dian division today issued the Fol lowing message on the anniversary of. That Battle the message Vimy Ridge con Veys to All canadians particularly to us soldiers is Unity. If United we stand we can accomplish great things. With the spirit of Vimy in Canada in we can accomplish great things for the country we love. Why mercurial poisoning cause of mrs. Mcclintock s death notice the business office of the free press will open to receive advertising copy ill Day. Copy for special pages such As churches and music must be received be fore 12 o clock Neon o assure insertion on saturday. Special United to free Tress by Rree private wire Chicago april found in vital organs of the sex Hurace body of mrs. Emma Mcclintock Mother of Billy Mcclintock was of sufficient Quantity to. E caused death commonly known As death a mercurial Txhiaj was the report Coroner chemist William b. Mcnally today when he completed an examination of the body. Meanwhile the arraignment o shepherds was postponed until april 16. Fewer breweries but More Beer in Canada last year Canadian 1 refs despatch Ottawa april More Beer Aud fewer breweries in Canada in 1924 is note i in the report of the department of customs for the year 1924. While the number of licensed breweries dropped to 64, the output of malt liquor last year was Gallons compared with in the previous year. Canada exported Gallons of last year s brew leaving nearly live Gallons year head population for Home consumption. In the same year canadians consumed less than a Quarter of a gallon of hard liquor . Head. _ that of liquor duly reported and taxed by the government. Officers and executive of Are chosen at most enthusiastic meeting continued on Page five Baltimore scientists claim is disallowed Adion already known to Curie and european science Seilal Cable to Hie tree 1 Reis new York Volmes. Paris april Ench scientists informed of the claim of doctor Viola of i to the discovery of a substance called radion which he american says is times j Nore Active. Than Radium Point that this substance has been known Here. Professor ill Levesque director of the Radium Institute interviewed says radion is in taut nothing else but Radium rather the lat Ter s emanations in which its radio Active properties take Concrete form. Himself noted the exis tence of radion at the very outset of ils research work on Radium. This actually. A. As argon Krypton or first called Nitro by English scientists. Latterly by International convention t was decided to the name radion. It is. Evident that must he More Active than seeing How the latter s radio activity s due to the radion it contains. As regards the Price of radion that is possible by figures. It. Can be pointed out that the activity of one Gram of Radium is concentrated association has in Treasury and Hopes to achieve. Excellent results with funds in hand amounting to the splendid result of a Campaign comparatively Brief Dura Tion with the prospects Tor a Good tourist and convention year the publicity tourist and convention Bureau was formally organized under the most auspicious circumstances last night at a banquet in. The Marlborough hotel in recognition of his efforts to wards getting the Bureau established col. R. It. Webb mayor of Winnipeg was unanimously elected president sir James a Kinte lieutenant governor was elected honorary president and prominent business men elected officers and members of the executive. The honorary vice presi dents Are r. G. Persse president of the Board of Trade d. C. Coleman vice president of the Canadian Paci fic railway Western and e. V. Hutchings. Tom Porte is the vice president and i. M. Wins my the honorary treasurer. The executive of 30 was elected As follows for two Moss d w Downie Gordon Hunter 11 Mackay k. J. Spears w. Mccurd i. Aid. Thos. Boyd George Howson j. H. Parkhill ii. C. Ashdown c. I Shepard h. M. Agnew Pollani George Skinner and w. P fess fair one palk ii. Willson. C. C Ferguson j. W. Hamilton. F. J. 0. Cox w. H. Quin Bruce Campbell c e. Gray . R. W. Patei inquest declares boy is accidentally shot Swift current jury condemns ease with which weapons procured special despatch to the free Tress Swift current april Coroner s jury investigating the cause of Ernest 17, shot on saturday ret de a ver dict of in quest today and added a rider condemning the ease with which can Purchase fire arms and ammunition in this City it also urged parents to prohibit entirely the handling of fire arms by their Chil Dren under 14 years of age. Ernest went to the Home of his chum Allen Bjorklund to borrow a 22 Rifle to go shooting. Bjorklund handed him the Rifle muzzle first Turner taking hold of it in that Posi Tion and pulling it towards him the gun was discharged and the Bullet passed into Turner s body and through ony lung close to the heart Bjorklund did not know it was loaded. Twenty killed in train collision at Barcelona associated ereas7 Barcelona april Twenty persons were Sonve sixty injured in a collision today Between two electric trains in. The suburb of Las planas., the Accident was due to the failure of the brakes on one of Tho trains. on Page five two killed in fi6ht at Damascus Syria further disorders follow stoning if Balfour s hotel associated Damascus Syria april 9. Two persons were killed and eleven injured in a fight today Between a mob opposed to the Earl of and syrian police and French Alger Ian troops. After prayers in connection with the Ramadan festival a. Crowd of about marched in the direction of the Victoria hotel where lord Balfour is because of the attack against this hotel last night extra precautions had been taken. Syrian police attempted to Check the demonstrators but were Otoneil. Fierce fighting ensued and algerian troops were summoned to the Aid if the boy fatally burned mrs. Culbert Rosendale also badly burned by exploding gasoline free press Portage la Prairie Man., april 9 burned by gasoline from a bottle to a. Stove while his Mother mrs. A. C. Culbert. Of Rosendale was cashing clothes this morning a boy of eight succumbed shortly afterwards while his another. Though badly burned was rushed Hospital and is recovering. Charged with implication in Glace Bay Bank theft Conn Piatt i Resi despatch Guce Bay april Delson. Of this town was d last evening by the local on the charge of Belner implicated in the theft of Bank of Canada. Glace in Januari y last of which Justin Bennet of Glace Bay arrested after a months search by the police stands Rhode Island Forest april than 14 Square Miles Hrusk. Anc Timber land in Rhode Island Luis been burned Over today in two for est fires which started yesterday.1 weather report the Lollo Wiuff is the weather report issued the Winnipeg. Meteorological of Ace at 7 p m. Yesterday temperature 56 maximum for the preceding 12 hours 63 minimum 45 barometer 3001 North wind at 6 Miles hour Clear. The and moderately warm throughout Tho West. I. A. I. A. Or. Rupert _ 38 52 Relna _ _ 36 70 Victoria. 46 54 Winn pee _ 42 02 Vancouver _ 42 60 port Arthur 24 48 Kamloops _ 40 Parry. Sound 24 Calgary _ 34 63 23 .64. Edmonton 64 Toronto _ 30 53 s. Current _ 38 "78 Kineston _ 30 so Battleford _ 34i 74 Ottawa _ 26 60 or. Albert Montreal _ _ 30 54 med. Bat _ 36 Quebec------23 so Moose jaw 39 73 St. John _ 26 so Saskatoon to 35 7o _ 28 46" Saskatchewan and Alberta fair and moderately Lako Superior i moderate winds fair and mild probably Lishi Iho ners in but Era sections. Dorothy Ellingson in Asylum six hours after being declared insane special United a few despatch to by free 1 ass private wort by Lawrence Monfort san Francisco april 9. Dorothy Ellingson has been removed to an institution for the insane. She reached Napa state Asylum late this afternoon scarcely six hours after a jury judge Harold court had declared her mentally in competent i god forgive them for she a raised Iron grated doors of the Dingy old Asylum administration building clanged behind., her.-. Some Day perhaps Ift she is noticed cured the court will sum Mon her Forth to stand trial for the Mui Jer of heir Mother. Col laps Ltd under the ordeal of the which All but. One Juroff concurred. Shrieked ;