Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 8, 1924, Winnipeg, Manitoba WINNIPEG Press Thermometer Dec. 10.30 12.30 2.30 FOP full weather report of ological Office see page Fair and Run 8.13; 16.27. Moon 15.53; 5.12. do Monarchists and Lose Heavily as Result of Polling former Government Given Emphatic Mandate to Discharge tions of the Dawes Plan DECEMBER 8, 1924 Price 5c per 24 PAGES Turn From Red Black Agitators and Cast Safety-First Vote for Republic Dec. re- lurns compiled up to 5 o'clock morning showed the Social Democrats leading with 62 ties elected to the The German Nationalists had 37; the 24; German People's 22; Com- 14; Bavarian People's 8; German Democratic 7; Extreme 2, and Economic 2. Week-end Toll of Life in Chicago Despatch to the Free Dec. the grim stalked broadcast through the good lands and the bad lands of Chicago and yesterday and today and gathered his customary toll of lives illicit rapine and the hundred and one passions that take possession of man in his various moods were coupled with wanton recklessness in the of motor cars and other preventable Here is a partial survey of what pens in the second largest city in the United States during a Albert M. slain In futile attempt to save from threatened A male companion Elmer J. and Frank Rathfon laborer killed by two who were foiled in an attempt to rob a soft drink Five others were One bandit captured returning home from a hilarious celebration found the house in Assisted by two inebriated companions he to gain access through a second story window He was killed when he Two men killed in railway an of expired in a police ambulance on the way to a a watchman was killed when his clothing caught in five taxi drivers held up and robbed by Government valued at stolen from a house in heart of which was surrounded by armed One hundred thousand worth of narcotics taken from the same Half dozen poker players contributed to holdup men who are believed members of ring that has gathered in during the last few Milwaukee who came to this city to meet man who said he was an jumped from speeding automobile when stranger attempted to attack Man described as hairy ape moron captured after he had at- tempted to attack girl on north Cook County officials announce opening of new with modern fixtures and to house increasing number of Police Inspector Assigned to Spy on Paris Reds found Slain in Street COUNTRY BEING SCOURED Deportation of Thousands of Foreign Communists as Result Three Killed in Triple Auto Four Men Badly Hurt Held By Police Press Dec. members of one and four men were injured when three automobiles collided on state i way No. 35, mile east of The four injured men are be- ing held by By ERIC KEYSER has over and j The dead Mr. and Mrs. James and slx old all residents of Kelly Lake near Herbert oE driver of the third car in the was not The occurred driver of the car in which the four men injured wero attempted to pass the machine driven by Both automobiles travelling Kemp struck the They were of and the i a suburb of The who are being held by police pending a mandate to are James Edward his Communism in people have provided the the faithfully all the obligations William and Joseph pian and to send the peaceful path of a literal foreign Those are the oi the general election held head forcing Irish off j cit u t tt d according to authorities I Cl The force of the collision threw the Lang car from the road into a where the machine and pinned its three occupants under- CANADIAN j TRAPPER HAS THRELING STEAMER IS AGROUND MEETING WITH WOLVES United News Cable to Tress Ity Tress Private JOHN Dec. 7. A flash blue flame from the of a revolver dead body of I tor Jean who had been I signed spy on a Communist nest in a were the first re- plies of the Red legions in France to tho challenge of Premier Edouard j that lie tame the Reds or chase them beyond the borders of the body was found today stretched on the where he had been slain by members of the organization he had come to armed policemen are scouring the country on orders from headquarters in Their efforts may result in the arrest and tion of thousands of foreign com- Spaniards and Herriot Hissed and Booed The politics was never better illustrated than at when a band of 500 Communists and senting the opposite extremes of French in hissing and Herriot as he arrived at t and re- Eleven members of the political mesalliance were arrested following the Expulsion of Communists from France began this when six Italians arrested in yesterday's raids in Paris were herded to tlie Franco- Italian border and ordered to proceed on ENDORSED BY ELECTORS CHANCELLOR of who has received an em- phatic mandate in the general tions to continue of Ing out the provisions of tlm Dawes Interrupted by Friends He capes and is Found Dead Sunday Morning Negotiations Regarding Pulpwood Berth and Norman Dam Concluded McArthur Withdraws tion to Removal of Four Townships From Area OTHER CHANGES MADE Despondent Laborer of Winnipeg Eludes Body Frozen Stiff Grenville in Trouble at Byng j Pursued by Pack Makes Long Lac All Aboard Are Safe Just Lap Ahead victory was irom but is was nut ihe early hours of today that overwhelming nature of the re- ef political line ent. Party Gains and Losses At 3 o'clock Monday the press formally announced that Parry Socialist had gained j Superintendent Brais 30 per the j that the Canadian government 13 to 20 per the ran aground at I Byng Inlet in heavy weather last but that all on board are The tug and has been sent to her ST. BONIFACE RAIDS Six Arrests Under Manitoba Act Chief of the St. Boniface and his force had a busy the their with a possible wia In the extremely Monarchist lost 30 'M per and the Communists 3'J ner cent. The Democrats and are tho middle-of-the-road The and it 15 expected that be released without i week-end in their endeavor to enforce Port Dec. One of most casos of suicide in the local records was revealed morning when TV as found by the nock from a high board fonce D. and wood at the corner of street I and a who ivas I single and years of luid been j depressed to his in- j to the past six was ered in his room ut with a rope his about to make the fatal leap and was rescued by of tHo l the STARTS I Village Threatened at One But Flames Are Subdued 7.-A fire set by a nf hydro electric power in four-year-old girl on at Manitoba 17. 27 miles from A. J. mining threatened at first to destroy the but was subdued after a fight by the fire brigade from A dwelling and several barns were declares J. A. Dresser's on the Bingo gold mines is awaited Page A examination shows Holliday died of stomach searching in a clothes producing j with a lighted caused the A. C. Manning tells coal com- j mission somebody else cA if A. E. Hudson did not 17. Communists answer by murdering police In- set to watch over them 1. Sunday evening's special musical at Knox church contained Christmas The Upper Canada Tract society issued a markedly increased number of tracts this 3. Dr. of closes New York Police Russian Duchess to Hotel New Dec. Grand Duchess Victoria wife of the Grand Duke Cyril who recently proclaimed self heir to the Romanoffs on the throne of arrived here aboard tho and escorted to her suite In the Waldorf Astoria hotel by a squad campaign at motor Baptist 9. cenotaph committee the north side uf the building tor a Montreal hockey team causes In National Hockey league by IS. man killed and 21 entombed hours in at Nova 1. r Complete agreement reached at conference on pulpwood con- 1. celebrates anniversary of the present 9. George Laughton says be good tno society concert achieved marked Saturday is Fase witish mining third In Pagel 3' Ukes nine Greenfield advocates con- 17. is reached in the 19. college night is I 2. of ticklish issue r 17. Wesley A special force of detectives and demonstrations by the grand duke's local political opponents both Red and White The grand duchess is a cousin of King George of Great a trapper on north staggered into Lac well nigh exhausted and recounted a thrilling encounter with He had out on his trap lines and at the farthest one found a wolf He tho animal placing the hide his for his afterwards he heard wolves howling and ho counted sixteen in the The bolder than the made snap at actually catching and tearing his pant The trapper then went into action and killed the Without stopping to skin the dead wolf he made tracks for Long The animals were quiet for some enjoying a repast on their late leader's but soon were again on his Hat made the railroad and the town a lap ahead of the WILL CURTAIL POWER OF Mussolini Determined Promiscuous Gun Play Must Cease to hy 1'rce 1'ress Private FRANCISCO Dec. Mussolini the zone commanders oC militia have decided that the promiscuous gun play indulged in by the militia for the last two must be The order which would bring aboul this capitulation to the demands of the Liberal opposition in Italy would compel militiamen posit their firearms and ammunition in Mussolini and the zom commanders decided to issue such order following a meeting Mussolini and his zone ers have also decided to issue an order providing for officers of tht militia to resume the ranks they formerly held in the army before they members of the sonal army of the Fascist This will a demotion fur of the respect for the Manitoba Temperance I refused to be bo- i and the result ot a number Ms aware of his Areas Not Available for Pulpwood Selection Period Reduced to the Free from 7. As a result oE negotiations carried on here during Friday and a complete agreement has reached upon the terms under which pulpwood berth No. 2 shall he offered for Thti terms which will ho in- in the show that the original proposal has considerably modified to meet the objections of. the provincial the small lumbering and j ing and interests of the j Thn preliminary negotiations on this mattor took place Friday and on the evening of that day there was disagreement on only one whether or not four townships should be removed from the area of the re- servation to protect the interests oC the Brown and Rutherford Mr. McArthur declined to accept but later on he thought better of it so that when negotiations re- Saturday afternoon he agreed to this Other Changes Made there were other put through oven after this in their it is hoped that all concerned lumbering the and the mine find 1 hat the terms of the lease Some the changes in of thu lease saw timber areas of 2.- 000.UOO feet or upwards not to be available for pulpwood the fact that they 7 i tore ivnic aware UL ins Little Pine slx citizens were taken into he made a hound from the custody on of liquor mostly of. tho home-brew containing a. large percentage of The accused Ray 2G5 St. Mary's 13. Mission street 500 Tache and proprietor 1 the 379 Archibald All room with tlie rope still around neck behind He clear of the friends fol The man run so in a westerly that his soon lost trace of in the The pol ceu communicated i and a search without i but NOVELIST AND SCREEN WRITER FATALLY HURT were released on bail to appear bo- j Early Sunday Alexander Tore the St. Boniface police court i watch i this j man for the Robinson on his j tracing footmarks in tlie j found Do hanj as I His u is rind he evidently been I Rives i to Educational Institutions I stated last night thai 1 decide today as to the Private holding an Dec. institutions will benefit to the extent of which been bestowed by George the Kodak Eastman sold various stocks at less than par to raise the institutions and the various amounts etts Institute of 000; University of 58.500.- 000: Hampton and Mrs. Gene Stratfon Porter Victim of Automobile Smash Los Dec. 7. Gene Stratton novelist and short died last from injuries sustained when her REACHES SETTLEMENT HON. CHARLES minister of who has been conferring with on pulpwood berth and man KILLED Twenty-one Miners Entombed After Few Imprisonment Not Yet Published But Said to be All in of Winnipeg Power Interests Bump in Mine Gallery One of Most of Lesser Difficulties would ty for STRIKERS TO CUT STEAMERS ADRIFT Police Guard Vessels at U.S. Naval Officer Loses Ends New South Wales New South Dec. Police are guarding 'the steamers in this ms an attempt by Los Cal. Dec. 70 Bandits Sack Mexican Killing 11 People 1'resn Mexico Dec. 7. Eleven civilians were killed and seven seriously when seventy bandits sacked tha town of in the state of Jalisco The principal stores and residences of the town were Return From Mission to Poland on than face the crew oC his after accidentally losing of a ball fund entrusted to E. an officer of the shot and killed himself in a hotel In a note to his commanding Cooper declared he the Colorado's men would be- lieve he had violated their Kid Faces Trial for Mrs. Mors Today ing waterside workers to cut adrift the Clan MacNair and Port Tlie police fired upon the who then Unable toMLand Cargoes Dec. Peninsula and was to land at Adelaide and Melbourne owing to the strike oC the waterside workers has departed for I Canadian Champion Horse Beats British Champion earlier in. the The in. jury from which Mrs. Porter died was a fracture tile Mrs. Porter's machine was struck ion the side and back of the drivers seat by a car downhill and was reduced to James ths writer's was slightly hurt in the The writer's Charles D. a oE Rome whose arrival here for Christmas was .by has been notified of bis wife's Mrs. Porter has been a resident of the last five She born on a farm in Indiana in 1868, the daughter of and Mary She was noted as an thor and her two most noted works being Girl of the and She was the author ot than fifteen among thorn being on birds and bird on which sub- ject was a For two years she was history staff of j and for four years was specialist in natural history on the Photographic Times Annual Jury for Scott Murder Trial at Chicago Dec. were entombed one in the 2 slope at the Hill mines on Saturday one of the worst bumps in i the shortly after 1_ o clock Tlie fall of earth that the took place on BOO level east la top pillar 4..incline.. bumps in quick brought the roof of the inine cutting oft the miners rit point and John beneath Uie debris Men Are Rescued Volunteers to rescue the men but were duven fiom their by another had After the miners returned to at past three they the way fall effected the re- teaso of the Imprisoned many ot paso WILL PLEASE SHIPPING 1'rr to 1'rcs.i to Los Dec. the eve of 1-i'css Dec. 7, Lord champion at the last Toronto horse owned hy his for murder Mrs. i Miss K. ot was Teresa Kid McCoy appears in Knight serenely The former middleweight j is scheduled 1.0 begin the greatest his life Judge tomorrow diaries S. havo St. of Winnipeg and F. A. j Superior ev of B.C commissioner to I Both and defence the Associated Boards of Trade in themselves eastern wore the cabin passengers landed by Mont she reached port Mr. DyU has been in whore he acted as a. special Canadian representative from the de- of Third British Mining Disaster in Nine Days Takes Toll of Nine Lives AFRAID OF LOVE Ey Christabel Russell chapters or a new serial by a noted English on page 17. to tlie Dec. men lost their lives in disaster early Friday morning in the Llay Main near the Free and Qne Of u was found sitting be- side the haulage ensme which lie was mine n North It was the third disaster in nine days in British I and is remarkable for ing In a pit which was considered one of the safest in An explosion of fire damp occurred so naturally that when ho was found he merely was thought to bo At a touch he fell over Precautions taken in the pit pre- vented the fire Ono of the curious features of the tragedy was that at a short distance away the sound and shock of the explosion n p I as the morning shift wero wore not noticed by the jas tne of i Five were just fire men usually employed in the mine had already twenty had 8'Ot to work near a seam in number one Ernest the was firing 3. shot in and his i men a short Then came a I terrific A collection of gus I was set and everyone a radius of the flames was killed yond the the fire and to run alons thres dead they the Help was at once sent The first band of rescuers tered the deadly fire were without gas but for two hours managed to the Eventually the bodies of the nine tims were OF champion harness horse Great Britain of 102.4, at the closing Ottawa horse show here Knight Commander was bought and to America Dec. of a jury try Kussell former Canadian for killing a drug store clerk here last was completed in criminal court here Taking of evidence in the trial is to Scott was convicted of the murder at a previous sentenced to Through a dramatic appeal of his got down on his knees In the appeals Scott granted a new The a t i a. no to cleanup the American lends Scott killed Russell Maurer j an attempted of the drug where Maurer Dr. James Beattie Morrison Dead Dec. James and father of D. W. died here Tho is the weather report Issued from tho at 7 p.m. at 7 p.m. maximum for the preceding 12 hours 29.94; west wind at 14 per Temperature at 7 a.m. 9; maximum for the preceding 12 10; 30.18; nest wind at 4 miles per Temperature at 7 p.m. 1-; maximum for the J 9; j 20.30: northwest wind at 6 miles The weathur in. the west been fair and Ma. Mi. Ma. 32 40 P. Arthur 20 24 Provision Made in Anglo-German Pact Emigration Cahte to the By Dec. Atlantic companies in Canadian immigration derive from one provision the new trade It is in tlie oC from their respective and the ot shipping of both countries must be placed on exactly the same Before 'the great was taken in Germany toL and trans Into man The number of who nave the will and means to Canada is not according to the ment of the Dominion official have become would like to refugees since the boundaries Europe were of Hit by Piece of Windshield in Auto Crash Girl Succumbs by a. piece of tho broken when the car In she driving with aged 21, of North sustained a gash in: her throat here and died before any assistance could oft The car waa driven by her faces a charge of MAY START SOON Lack of Provision for of Dam Bracken and Farmer Despatch to Hie Free Press from Staff Dec. conferences held Saturday afternoon and evening between Hon. Charles ister of Premier and Mayor Farmer brought the negotiations concerning and the control ot the levels of the Lake of the Woods and the river to a The two representatives from Manitoba are with a few minor which have not yet been and which are all In favor of the power These are to-be submitted to power interests and later to the city council the construction of new dam will be proceeded Thus it is likely that work on the deepening of the outlet and the construction of the dam will start within a week or Unsatisfactory Phases Prior to leaving here for the west Premier Bracken and Mayor Farmer issued the following statements the past few days we havs had conferences with and other officials of the department of and we are taking a. modified proposal for the of the Winnipeg now drafted the proposal does not for ownership of dam and to this extent does noi satisfy Neither have we ed: any responsibility for being Otherwise all other respects the new posal seems to meet the wishes western Interests and is very much I IS on page Two Killed in Collision of Auto and Street Car Press Dec. 25, of this and of are Hercules 27, of this is in in a as ot a. head-on collision tween an automobile a street car last the Free Press Fifty Ago The were the members of the ministry Horn K. Hon. K. A. provincial treasurer and Hon. minister public works provincial Colin speaker legislative council president of executive council Forty-Five Years Ago The county of Portage la Prairie had an assessment of It was noticed by the Guelph Herald that A. the Winnipeg was the possessor ol appropriate initials J. A. W. Forty Years Ago The transfer of the fire alarm system to the Bell Telephone com- pany was St. John's colleges played football for the championship m n -IS Manitoba college left for England P. llii pert Victoria Vancouver Kamloops Edmonton P. Albert Med. Hat M. 38 24 0 15 44 P. Sound 44 Toronto 12 10 Ottawa Montreal Quebec 10 St. John Halifax 32 22 33 32 32 24 32 36 and coM. Saskatchewan and with somewhat temperate winds and galea from northeast with snow OCEAN STEAMSHIPS Al Glasgow j Queenstown I Npw 6) York Kew York Havre 6) American Priests and Nuns Held For Ransom By Chinese Bandits t understanding thaf the company of Dec. j uere a city near to Another city In the part ot the The were members of the Passionists and formerly stationed at St. Ann's in this have been r 6) Newport captured by bandits near and with two being held Cor according cable sages received here Tlie priests are the Father former rector of church at and the Rev. ther Missionaries The nuns are members of the Sisters of stationed at Con- A received at the here tonight stated the and nuns had been od of all their possessions by their s. The priests have in China but a. short sailed from Seattle in of this year Father Creegan declared It was his business connected with hte son's Bay Years Ago The jacket wrap in which the ty girl of the day looked happiest was of Eiffel red beaver ly braided with black soutache braid and trimmed with with hussar sleeves over the was rumored that Nye and Whitcomb Riley in on their northwestern ing- Thirty Years Ago It was rumored that Sir Charles would succeed Sir John Thompson as lender of the over 12.000.000 bushels of wheat the and care ot I've most of the erop went by way of Buffalo and New Years Ago The Winnipeg organized their winter leu sue a Officers A. R. I hat Tom Sharkey of- train Corbet for champion and the offer had been TV The nf Turf club a deprecating Sunday enty Years Ago 1904 e now fire was Pt in work and be- to the order of which Father is the Chinese Students Captured Deo Chinese teachers and students of Canton Christian college were napped Saturday on boaid a launch flying an American while ing from Canton to tae Six among the passengers of the launch overpowered the crew after landing the sent the launch back to Canton with a foreign woman and several Chinese girls on board The bandits on page TO The word in puzzle No 6 printed in 77 in the vertical should read No. 3 vertical should be not 11
