Lethbridge Herald, The (Newspaper) - December 12, 1928, Lethbridge, Alberta FINAL EDITION VOL 2 Winnipeg Wheat close ALBERTA WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 12 1928 14 PAGES Successful Operation Performed On EXTENDED Official Announcement is Made By Board of Railway Commissioners COAL WILL NOf GET PREFERENCE WHEAT OTTAWA Dec to the exigencies of the grain movement the of Alberta coal to Ontario under the a ton rate will be extended in 1929 for a period of six months The tests next year will begin on January 15 and continue until July 15 The announcement was made today by officials of the board of railway commissioners who however stated that the transportation companies would not give the coal shipments pre- cedence over gram The early months of the year constitute a period when the grain transportation business was particularly heavy extension of time brings Alberta into line with the maritime provinces for the latter section of the country in their experimental movement of coal brought by water to Montreal enjoys the benefit of a special railway rate transported westward from the eastern metropolis while in winter a special experimental rate has been fixed for all-rail haul from the maritime mines to Montreal The tests run for a period months each year No provision has yet been made for granting a six months test period to Alberta for 1930 The railways have not yet turned in to the board of railway commissioners a statement of costs involved In the ex- periment for 1923 A hearing was held a month ago at which counsel for both the transportation companies declared that their cost sheets could riot be ready before the end of the current year 31 1939 Not until some time after that date will it be known if the government who are pledged to re- imburse ths companies for any cial loss suffered in the tests will have to distribute any federal funds Members Elected to Public School Board PRINCE OF WALES KING'S CONDITION IS BREAKS SLIGHTLY BETTER AS OPERATION PERFORMED Purulent Fluid Drawn Off Right Patient Has Several Hours Refreshing Sleep After Seeing Prince of Outside Palace Gates Grow LONDON Dec 12 Official announcement was made that a successful operation had been performed on King George this evening A physicians bulletin issued at p.m An operation on the king for drainage of the right side of the chest has been successfully performed this 1 evening The condition of his majesty is A O VIRTUE Who headed the poll in Tuesday's school board election SUSIE BAWDEN JAMES II WESTBROOK Re-elected to the board of which Elected for the fourth time to a she will be the only woman member two-year term VIRTUE WESTBROOK MISS BAWDEN ARE BOARD LOSES GRAVELLING BYLAW DEFEATED BY 20 MILES DAYS Public Watched Race With Breathless Interest Kangaroo Strides PREMIER BALDWIN VETOED FLIGHT PLAN LONDON Dec Canadian Press Urged on by a keen anxiety which was apparent to the thousands of persons awaiting his return to don last night Ills royal highness the of Wales accomplished the six thousand mile journey from the wilds of Africa to the bedside of his father MONTREAL HAS Not the Dreaded Flu Nurses in One Hospital Affected MONTREAL Dec is a real epidemic of grippe In the ctty though net of the same dread malady ravaged Montreal ten years At the Montreal General hospital 25 nurses have been while two nurses doctors and eight maids have been affected on the Royal toria staff The Notre Dame hospital reports 15 of its staff ill It is an epidemic said Dr MacLean superintendent of the Gen eral hospital Of course it is not a flu epidemic such as experienced ten years ago It Is the grippe rather and really is not dangerous The reason such a small number of cases have been reported to the city health department is that people go lume when stricken recovering in a few days without any official care This type of illness is mild and runs a shorter course The east end of the city is hard hit many cases arc reported as a sharp falling off in school attendance lias noted IS DAMAGED AT CALGARY CALGARY Dec A N taking off hi a child plane here at this ing with eight bags of mail for Re- gina and Winnipeg struck a wire when his motor cut out and damaged the of the machine slightly in a deep trail near the civic airport The mail was transferred to the eastbound train and will reach Winnipeg by airplane Thursday afternoon Eight Killed In Clash Between Police Strikers BOMBAY India Dec policemen and live mill strikers were killed today during the riols it Tarel at the north end of the city when he mill strikers over- powered and tooled shops Armed police reinforcements were rushed lo the district and opened fire on rioters Many persons were Injured In disorder Shops were rarel and business was at a standstill CRAZY NEGRO WOUNDS 8 CHICAGO POLICEMAN Dec policemen were and Gd by a crazed negro who himself In a flat for five hours before the police In breaking Into the building where he had held them at bay His body was riddled by bullets He wos taken to a hospital PARAGUAYAN FRONTIER CALM Bolivia Gills New Classes to of try is at Stake LAPAZ Bolivia Dec hanging over Bolivia the I strength of the army has been ed The general staff called the 1929 class to the colors and the country was responding with offers of service Retired army officers informed the general staff that they were ready to rejoin their former units The situation on the Paraguayan frontier continued calm with both Par aguay and Bolivia maintaining their garrisons in their respective positions The cabinet members have presentee their resignations to President Siles so that he might form a ministry for tional concentration Ifc was thought likely that the new cabinet would be completed by nightfall Two great mass meetings were held last night under the auspices of uni- versity students and there were other demonstrations of patriotism and in which a demand for war was heard In an interview of the situation 711 Minister Palacios The indignation of the government and people does not refer particularly la the frontier dispute but rather to oe treacherous attack by 300 Para- soldiers against the garrison of 25 Bolivians at Fort Vanguardism which was constructed soms time ago and the decimation of the garrison in an manner We want the world to understand the seriousness of this as it involves the honor of Bo- ivia This attack certainly is without precedent C G A Candidates Win Handily in Tuesday's System of Voting Turned Down by 226 Majority 1400 Votes Polled Bawden Hawkins Smeed Virtue Westbrook Rejected AA PUBLIC SCHOOL TRUSTEES 33 103 P7 46 46 0 B 85 63 113 117 ni Cl 26 101 36 12 104 9 C2 11 137 41 30 147 161 n 30 171 66 191 B 43 234 75 Cl 239 8 Adv Total in less than ten days speed an unparalleled LONDON Dec George's physicians at p.m issued the following bulletin on the king's The slight improvement in the king's condition noted this morning is maintained Some purulent fluid around the base of the right lung has been removed by puncture this morning and further drainage will be necessary The bulletin which is the first to be issued before the usual evening report was signed by five of the six have been attending his majesty They Sir Stanley Hewett Dr L E Whitby Sir E Farquhar Buzzard Sir E Humphrey Rolleston and Lord Dawson of Penn May Remove Part of Rib LONDON Dec Press cal experts in London today expressed tho During tlie past few days the quent successive editions of the papers have been recording the prince's kangaroo strides on his homeward journey and have shown how the lie attention has been divided between the royal sick bed at the palace and the prince's fast trip by ship and train from Africa It is not only as heir to the throne but as the son of the king and queen that the prince was welcomed back to London The Times calls attention to the duties of state awaiting the prince in which it predicts he will seek legitimate I Sir openings to play some individual voles opinion ui oil it also dwells upon the significant fact i surgeon to the king to Buckingham Palace was con- that the prince's main experience In state and presumably also his personal lies in the speaking world notably the British minions and the United States The paper He returns with the firm hold of royal house on the affections of the whole empire immensely ened by the king's deep devotion to PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION NO 1 Yes for No against Rejected AA 53 4 A 105 36 1.1 Cl 104 14 c 159 27 D 63 us 40 B 297 43 I duty Deen signally displayed lo a greater extent than in any period in history In helping the kins he can best help in the hearts of British peoples Flight Vetoed The newspaper pays tribute lo Prem- 2 BOYS CONFERENCE TORONTO Dec boys work conference will be leld in Toronto in 1929 AA Yes for No against 18 Rejected 40 A A Against Rejected 16 PLURAL VOTING SYSTEM NO 2 A 51 35 23 B 85 45 Cl 112 27 16 IS For Against Rejected AA 19 17 GRAVELLING BYLAW A B C2 61 52 n 58 SI 23 26 12 15 14 12 CONCRETE SIDEWALKS A no 36 9 B 91 61 17 Cl 52 24 C3 90 11 D 176 39 36 GO 12 D 146 49 11 B 241 41 60 B 174 77 20 B 173 76 22 PUBLIC SCHOOL TRUSTEES Elected A Gladstone Virtue 844 James Westbrook 821 Bawden PROPORTIONAL TION Defeated by 226 Against the system 727 In 501 PLURAL SYSTEM OF VOTING Sustained by 649 For the old system 875 Against 226 GRAVELLING BYLAW by 20 on two-thirds majority requirement AID ARMENIAN LAND SETTLEMENT TORONTO Dec Armenian Relief Association of Canada has voted to aid in establishing the Ar- menian people on land of their own in the Near East 17 19 13 FBI 2021 SAT 1415 22 SIDEWALKS BYLAW Carried by 28 on two-thirds requirement Large Majority The verdict of the voters In the tion of school trustees on Tuesday was an unmistakable one in the votes cast or the elected candidates The lowest of the elected candidates led the next of the three defeated dates by 322 votes In favor of the system of the vote was pronounced the system winning out by 649 votes Tiie proportional system of voting went down to defeat by 226 votes Tlie total number of votes cast was This was a surprise considering the small voting in the forenoon It a good vote taking everything consideration Tlie bylaw for sidewalks carried by a substantial majority over the two- thirds majority needed and the elling bylaw was defeated by a margin of 19 less than the two-thirds majority needed The labor candidates found support in the north side of the city in the election of school trustees but the vote went heavily against them on the south side P R Turned Down The proportional system of voting was sustained on the north side but fared very badly nn the south side The most pronounced vote against the system of voting and in favor of the plurality system was among the voters in the DufT Addition and here a large vote was cast In favor of gravelling owing to the bad state of the roads In this locality with not a great deal lo them For the reason in lo sidewalks the bylaw for con- Adv Adv Total Adv crete sidewalks gained substantial port Guns Bark And Payroll Disappears N Y Daylight of Partly Armored Bank Car in Heart of City YONKERS N Y Dec a light In the business section seven or eight robbers opened this morning on the collection car of the I rst National Bank and escaped with a payroll after wounding one of the bank guards The partly armored collection auto was transporting the payroll from the post office to the bank for later ery to the Alexander Smith and Sons Carpet Company Two bank guards and a city policeman were riding in the car In the centre of the city a roup of men in another car opened ire on the collection wagon shooting directly through the windshield Adolph Kauster one of the bank guards was through the arm The other guard and policeman were subdued by the robbers who escaped wan me payroll toward New York City There were four bags of money In he car chas A Valentine vice- of the First National Bank old the police that the exact amount was part of which was for the Smith Carpet and part for the National Refining company The money was on its way to the bank and had not been turned over to the companies It is the bank's loss WILL SELL TORONTO Dec a land tract valued at which forms part of the assets of the de- funct Home Bank Is to be sold Baldwin In vetoing the project of the prince to fly part of the way on his journey homeward The paper says nothing less than the sure exerted by Mr Baldwin prevented the more expeditious method of trans- port which in the circumstances was certainly unjustifiable Arrangements had been made for a service of fas The prince left Dodoma Africa a four o'clock the morning of 28 making a train journey Dar-Es-Salaam on the coast ThL trip took 16 hours Ho waited at Dar-Es-Salaam unti the morning of December 2 when the cruiser Enterprise arrived at the port He set sail on this for Egypt and while the cruiser went through the Suez canal he journeyed across Egypt by Jain He joined the Enterprise again at Port Said Saturday night Port Said the prince dashed 928 miles across the Mediterranean to taly arriving there on Monday From he made a dash to Boulogne on the English iel There he boarded the mail boat for Folkestone England The prince in his dash home made five train journeys three ship neys and a half dozen auto trips with an operation might be taken It was believed that small portions of two adjacent ribs would be cut for the purpose of draining the secretions from tho INVENTION ELIMINATES STATIC OMAHA Neb Dee de- vice to eliminate static has been discovered by Louis Clernt a convict serving 15 years in the state prison It Is small cheap and has worked perfectly on flve different makes of radios OUST BV NiCK NICHOLS AMERICAN DEFEATED LONDON Dec W American squash racquets player was eliminated from the amateur at Bath Club today round JUST THE HOUSE A affected lung HONORARY SEES KING GEORGE LONDON Dee Hush Rigby honorary surgeon to King George visited the palace this ning It was the first time that Sir Hugh who has been in ordinary to the Prince of Wales since 1933 has been mentioned as visiting tha palace Sir Hugh who has been honorary surgeon to the king since 1917 is senio surgeon at the London H was surgeon to the late Queen Alex household He served in ths great war and was mentioned In dispatches He Is the author of various papers in medical and publications OFFICIAL BULLETIN TELLS OP OPERATION LONDON Dec George underwent an operation today for the removal by puncture of lent fluid around the base of the right lung Some of the fluid was removed and further drainage will be essary Announcement of the operation teas in a bulletin timed p.m and signed by five of the who have been his majesty The bulletin read as The slight improvement in the king's condition this ing is maintained Some purulent fluid around the base of the right lung has been removed by puncture this morning and further drainage will be necessary Signed Hewett Whitby zard Rolleston Dawson PRINCE GEORGE LEAVING FOR HOME LONDON Dec was slated today that Prince George who hat been serving aboard Iht Durban left Bermuda this for New York He will leave New York on the which sails for England Friday PRINCES CALL AT PALACE LONDON Dec Prince ot Wales from his home York House to Buckingham Palace at noon today after having spent the morning resting The welcome news tha slight improvement in King George's condition had been maintained was conveyed to the prince Immediately upon the doctors leaving the palaca earlier in the day The Duke of York returned from ths palace with the Prince of Wales Baron Davidson the former arch- bishop sf Canterbury was among those who called at Buckingham Palace this morning Former King Manuel ot Portugal was another caller Continues on Page Pive Will New Chief Be Exempt From Income Tax Continued on Page Six Plot to Bomb Hoovers Train Is Frustrated BUENOS Dec plot to jomb Herbert Hoover's special train las been frustrated With two men under arrest police today were con- their search for anti-American agitators might be involved Fifteen hundred guards will be em- ployed on special duty to insure the of the United States elect when he arrive and during his visit Special to the Herald Sask Dec K S McLaughlin of General Motors if Canada may open a new plant that an investment of well on toward two million dollars and regard as all In the day's work but being made chief of the Five Hill Cree In- dians Is something else again Picture the president of this great Canadian corporation in his hotel room after the ceremony here Tuesday ing with undisguised pride at his new head dress of gay plumage his robe and pipe and moccasins and dictating a wire to his You are now the squaw of ho intones entitled to two-thirds of a pound of bacon and a pound of flour a day unable to accept or buy liquor from white men entitled to half faro on the railways and not subject to In- come tax laws Wait till I tell them that at Ottawa BAN KOLLEGE KUT CANTON China Dec western styled clothing which has been the collegiate rage throughout Southern China is to be abolished by the Canton ALBERTA WILL HELP TRAINING OF BRITISH IMMIGRANTS Month's Free Training at Schools of Place Them on Selected Farms MENTION H M B LONDON Dec Press ment promising lo stimulate flow of migrants to Canada from Britain has been concluded between Ihn of Alberta and oversea department of government Under Hie agreement the province will give 0110 free training in cultural schools In Alberta lo men from Great Britain between of 17 and 25 years and a free domestic training io women from Britain between Md 33 of aec Subsequently iho province place students on and In positions respectively The applicants will travel In two in spring Male under 18 years of age will ravel across the ocean free but if over IB will come under new dollar rale The women will travel at rales tic The only costs lo the students will be board and lodging and Incidental and fares from the Alberta school to ultimate places of employment After the first year's farm work the students Ire to attend the schools for an- other winter The women will at the domestic schools Vermilion and Olds
