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Prime ‘Ministers Announcement Received With Much Pleasure By ' Sir Arthur Currie, Cana-

dian it Corps Great War.

(special to the Guardian)

arrows, Dec. dl-Sir Arthur currle. commander of the Canadian gel-pa in the Great War, told the olobe tonight that the Dominion oevernluent could have given the peopleofCansdancChl“ semes- up which could be more acceptable than the announcement o! Right lion. Mackenzie King that soldiers pensions legislation will be revised at the approaching session of Par- liament. and that the board of pen- . lions commissioners in the meantime ‘ will be asked to interpret the Pen- sions Act in a broad and liberal man- per, giving ex-servlce men the ben- efit of the doubt when the question

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asking him for a message. The Corps Commander was delighted with the good news and immediately dictated the following statement:

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irises as to whether the present con- dition of the health is attributable to war service. The Globe represent- ative spoke to Sir Arthur on the loos distance telephone. telling him of the Prime Minister's announcement and

Got Nothing ‘ But Groceries

~ tomes-mi» ‘ ‘ NEW WATIRJOR-D, N. 5., Dec. 22. Taking t0 his heels when mill-entail by two masked bandits,‘ who fired three shots ss he out-distanced them. Rudy Clean- er, 17, last night lost part of hie sleigh load of grooeiics. but saved $300 in Saturday collections. Youn! Gleaner was making deliveries near the country district oi Low Point, when he was held up. ‘obeying the command to put up his hands he stepped from the sleigh and ran. Malta! chews ﬁne distance away. Two boys, who were with him in the sleigh said the holdup men loaded themselves with groceries and dis-

ssge the Government could give them

"The news you have. given me is something for which l’. am parson- allyverythankfuland will ha re- ceived with the greatest possible pleasure and relief not only by a large body of soldiers. but by all who have an interest in the-soldiers. and that means the whole country. It is true we have got eleven years away from the war, but I have always thought that the Canadians were not a forgetful people. We an not so materiiistic as all that. ‘me finer things of life still appeal to our poo- ple." The “ of pensions for ex- servlce men who are now suffering as a result of the ordsals they ex- perienced in France, has only to be brought to the attention of the peo- ple to see that sympathetic justice is done. ‘more is no Christmas mes-

which would be more acceptable to the people of Canada."

(Continued on rose i)

WhedFPrices Take A “Drop

(Special to the Guardian) CHICAGO. Dec. il-Discoilraged by the dullness of demand forNortl-l American wheat from buyers abroad. grain traders let prices slip down be- low the Federal Farm Board's fixed loan value of wheat today. The loss o! 2% in Pbc a bushel leit wheat about

virtually at the lowest point since mid November.

lie under the recent high crest and

appeared.

ANNOUNCEMENTS. ; comma EVENTS, MEETINGS, are.

"The Christmas Concert iaptist Church. Clyde River. aid Monday- DW- 33- '

lriuying Boga, Shoe ‘r, Keasioaica every non. Alden Ideals.

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(Canadian Press)

NEW YORK. Dec. Il-While tuned in on the powerful English trans- mitter at Rugby. mslsod. yesterday noon. the New York Times operator heard s call directed to the Times

from the news traffic board station

municatlon with Halifax because that city was cut off from all tole- graph and telephone ccTTn so ortlw sleet storm. t The Times operator

alr and Halifax answered. Stock brokers in Halifax asked the T111108 operator for quotations. This w"

several hours until the Market closed, the Times moon kept Hell!“ Id- vised on the action of the "Bell's" in Wall Street. Several orders tor stocks were eaecuisd via the radio. -

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Rugby then relayed a message sent

at Halifax, N. S. requesting com-

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Communication Estab. ’ lished WitirHallihx And With Eastern Sections of Province."

The work of repairing tho P. E. Is- land telephone lines, disorganized b! ‘ the recent sleet storm, is progressinl rapidly with sixty men working day and night. Yesterday a circuit work- ing through to Halifax by way oi Wood Islands. was established, and a tempo nay system installed on the Mon‘ , Cardigan and Murray

damage between St. Dunstarfs and the water works will be repaired to- day. but communication will not be established with Summerslde, before the middle of the week. A complete tern, y system ti “ ‘ the pro- vince will be installed by the end oi next week. Mr. W. S. Grant, Division Superintendent, is attempting to get recruits from Antigonish. and expects to secure the service of about twenty experienced linesmen. The, wires be- tween Chsrlottetown and S

side are broken in numerous places and in addition, there are 3i broken poles between St. Dunstalfs and the water works. 8d from Fredericton to Spring-

vale‘, '1 en Brookfleld l-rlll, i2 from Norboro School toKenslngton, 20 from Wilmot Bridge to Bedeque, ll at Si. Eleanors, 40 between Wellington cor- ner and Richmond. There are also numerous bad breaks at Bunbury. Uigg, ‘lracadie, Morell and St. Peters.

Although at present there is suffi- cient material with which to work for considerable time, it is feared that, there lnaybesn insufficient supply er‘ copper wire, as conditions in Ontario.‘ the source of supply, are similar to those in this prev‘ No supplies are available from Halifax, as wire is needed for repair work in Nova

Mr- Grant, the supervisor. person- ally supervised the work, driving to Summer-side by sleigh to ascertain the damase on that line.

(Canadian rem) IIIONTIIAIa Dec, IIFfIIIQQI-I lve Dec. N, 1810. a radasﬂan of

day, Willard Tantonseon or w. s." P. Tsnton. Ill llim Avenue, a leading prohibition campaigner, appeared be- fore Stipendiary Magistrate Kenneth M. Martin and cenreesesterlevlng il~ legal possession of llqlm between October 1 and December 20. contrary to the Prohibition Act.

wood asked that more than ‘the min- imum penalty be imposed as the dates given include more than one ps “Wtlon offence, evidence being

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day Percy Vale. charged with illeif- el possession of liquor, was convicted and fined $200. Thesclsure on which the convioition was secured was made on the_ pa mises of Solomon Vale,

Chill . Prohibition Inspector H8!-

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Passengers Stampede,

Eighty Persons Irijurédi

train. In their terror the passen- gers broke the windows and clouds of smoke came into the cars. Shouting to them to keep cool and trying to tell them that they were in nc peril. the guards attempted to hold them in the train at least until‘ the third rail current had been turned cff lo keep the passenge from

(5060!!! to the Guardian)

NEW roux. Dec. 21—Elglity persons were. injured. thirty-five so seriously that they were tek- _- en to a llollﬂtal as a crowded subway train speeding through a tunnel thirty feet under the boil of the East ‘River during the rush hours, was halted by a grounded third rail and a stam-

BeattyA

(Special io the Guardian)

TORONTO, Dec. 32.—Mlore tbanj L000 commercial travellers aesernh-' led for the most sumptuous of all their annual banquets and in hear Hon. Richard B. Bennett, Dominion Conservative leader, and E. W. Beatty, x. c.. President of the Can- l‘ adian Pacific Railway. address them ‘ at the Royal York Hotel last night. 1

Introduced as "two of Oanadns greatest men," their guests cf hon- or reclprocated by referring to the . assemblage of commercial men as

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“Old Picture oi the immensity ‘ﬂ Cuuaulsn Yaclfic ventures pig do» dsriakings. Amid e burst or applause Mr. Bennett closed his address jib the. ingunction. "Let. us so far asiin / us lies determine that a. adltiniss the lnaintsnsnc of our owliiutdi- only and freedom will be oonslstint with the unity of the nrltidi lin- pire as a whole. That it seelurtc ins n not unreasonable. ' .' It was more than an ordinary ban- quet with ordinary settings to vmlch this host of "knights of the ﬂip" sat

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Huge Apple Shipment

(Special to the Guardian)

TORONTO, Dec. ill-British Col-

. < q§‘ﬂe1ym7“do$ioi\oolndnt of the~

earner, construe ' of which is now 1| n_

practically completed. is to be opcn- Builds", coma“ mu 1 u. u”

- ed at midnight mass on Christmas u Wm b’ “cm” m“ “n m” 7"‘ Eve. The programme for the opening

“m” BMW“? m‘ Bud“ '4“ Pm‘ _ has not yet been definitely arranged.

hihltion and inland revenue oifiotfs but will be ready ln the near future.

"M" "m!" ﬁlm“ ""1 °n Til"- At the present time the final finish-

‘down. There was a monster Christ- mas boo: for everyadendant. ‘Bil |blg banquet run was remaste- ‘capaloity and beautifully decorated with electrically Bghted fountain of

citizens who had been pee-eminent in making Canada great. The tenor of the addressee of the evcnlos W" that of Canada's present and grow- ing greatness, her potentialities which Mr. Bennett said were beyond the sparkling m”, pumup-Mm bounds of present imagination and 18m, he“ “m, ‘um mm)“; m M. her future upon which Mr. Beatty lhmd m, “m o; m, 5x919“ said the C. P. R. was optimistically The“ w“ u. inn-em“ “.55.,” g1 building. Both speakers oi the ev- ‘depuwd “ma,” mm “m”. ﬂu, enlng talked shop lust s little. Mr. (m; the 1m p“; m m’ Bennett declared that within his room ma m“ chow“ Nﬂarfq‘ view there were policies which were “Alma Wu‘ My, Turkey 'r“”"':h| m°"“"'u° u cmad“ m” i” ‘tin’ ‘meat course and plum pudding. ths 3"°“'““‘~ m- 3”“? mtemm ‘h’ dessert. It was an occasion‘. o ire- commm-clsl men with a statistical mm“. "‘ *

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(Canadian Press) OTTAWA, Dec. 22-—1"indlng,thalt a combine eidsted among certain ele- mentsoftbepl " .heotingai'id steam fitting industry in Ontario from June i021 to the data of the

(Canadian Press)

s-r. sonar. N. B». oeessls- cf Miss Ethel Mos”. nurse cl Si. John on Friday. whm Aﬁlslr A. McGlll cf Washington Wlsﬂll she was to marry on next 8101i‘- day was killed in an airplane crash at Bolling Field. Wasllllll-Y ton. He was one of five victims Including Congressman Will... W- Kayrwl- of Springfield alidfliis secretary. lilies Magee was,‘ in Boston awaiting the arrival ol, her fiancee from Washington. Her fiancee will eeeuried from St. Adriane Church. Hostel!» the l church which he and euarmé" Gee were to have been married ill;

In; that the combine "introduced in- jtc Canada which is konwn in the great cities of the United States as racketoerirlg," the report of Gordon Wa-ldroll, K. C., was made public to- day. Over a period of several months Mr. Waldron, acting as a commiss- ioner under the Combihos Invoﬂ-ill- tion Act pursued his inquiries into the activities 0i the plumbers and fitters of Toronto‘ London, Windsor, and Fort William.

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umbia growers averaged about s1 per

box on all apples shipped out of the interior valleys during the early part of the sascn. It is estalnated that up to the third week inrlovember a. million and s. half boxes had been sold. a gross return oi $1.66 PCLDOX for all varieties or about $1 net to the grower after handling charges are met.

1,000 Killed By

pods on the part cf the paseen- trampling each other to death

-»All-.cl_tha-si|hty__._ were suffering from inhalation cf smoke from burning insula- tion on a conduit and many had been ' pied and out as they beat with their dais against windows and doors in their fren- lied attempts l0 get out of the

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the doors before the current was , oil. and scores of men Ild wo- men stumbling about Wllrough l smoke and darkness were for a l . few nannies in grave peril cl eiec irccuticn by contact will‘ the l third rail.

units, was laid down by the Inter- state Commerce Commission mday in , compliance with a oongressl l‘ mandate. Five eastern trunk lines would be formed. headed by the Pennsylvania. Baltimore and Ohio, Wabash-Seaboard, New York Cent- ral and Chesapeake and Ohio. The (Canadian Press) . autos and Maine and the New Hav- WASHINGTON. Deo. 22—-A plan en would form the key system in for merging practically all oi the New England, m the scuththero steam railroads of the would be three systems headed by States into nineteen giant operatinl the Atlantic coast Line. the South-

JOIN UP-‘HELP sAslrA BE A PAL ' ~ . THE OPPORTUNITY STILL IS OPEN

‘rile Guardian cootlnuasiis appeal conscience while any children in the equestrian the rut cflprdvincc, whom be ehliiinobsebsenreduceebyesnflelpecessiimremsiuuusiispt- _ there is still ample sc-‘by a Santa-Yd. Baadsrs. who ' on "ﬁle new-notations», can you still re-

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(Special to the Guardian) CHICAGO. Dec. 2l—Thc death‘ toll from automobile accidenlis in‘ Chicago and the rest of Cook Ccun-l ty for the year stood at l.000 today.' The l,000‘.h victim was Paul Bud- nick_ 48, killed in what s, Coroner's= Jury declare an unavoidable accl-i dent. Coroner Herman N. Bundeson} said he believed the i929 auto death list would not equal that of i910; when 1.087 were killed. ernltallway and the Illinois Cent-l ral. Other key systems under the‘ plan were ‘as follows: The Great Northern Pacific, the Chicago, Burl; ington and Quincy. the Union Pacif- ic. the Southern Pacific and the, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific and i. Chicago and Northwestern. The commission indicated that the Can-' adian National routes on this side‘ oi the border, including lines in New England, the Grand Trunk Western: I and the Detroit.‘ Grand Raven and‘. Milwaukee, would be left as at pres- ent constituted. Canadian Jaoifldimidlnga includbthe Soc Lines and extensions into New England ware also left un-

one time on the Governor Generals

Delegates To ' The Conference l

(Special to the Guardian)

OTTAWA. Dec. Qi-Colonel, the Hon. J. L. Ralston. Minister of National Defence, will represent Canada. at the five power conference, it, was an- nounced by Prenlier King tonight. Col. Balaton will be accompanied by Commodore W. Hose. chief oi the Canadian Naval Staff and Colonel George Vanler of the Department of External Affairs and fonnerly of the

twenty-second Battalion. C. E. 1'2, of V

Quebec City. Colonel Vanier was at

Staff and is at present in Geneva attending committee meetings of the League of Nations. The Canadian delegates will leave Ottawa the sec- ond week of January as the confer- ence opens on Jan. 2i.

Christmas Mail

lbyteillsl to the Guardian) HALIFAX. N. 8.. Dec. 21—'1‘he largest Christmas mall ever to be handled at Halifax. was brought into

TORONTO. Dec. 21-11110‘.- ral Grain Company. tarsus ' which the Farmers National Grain Corporation operates Jill] . the Board cf Trade, placed d postmarket bid tea-y in hay no.» I halrd winter wheat on the cash market at Sl-ll. . '-

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port by the Cunard liner Car lo from Southampton. So heavy was the mail. ‘i780 bags. that a special train of ten cars was made up by the Canadian National Railways to carry -the Christmas letters and presents from overseas on their way across Carlade. The Cannaniaccln-

l lng w Halifax ilndsr the auspices of ~ ' the Canadian National nanny‘: dis- whlch embarked. l7! passengers help and is now discharging a thousand tons of freight at Halifax bedore proceed-

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and tomorrow morning at 5.0a.‘ ‘h Sun rises this morning stlwagi sets this afternoon at ale. it . _ New moon Mmdsy, Dec,‘

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