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[ccbreakers R e a c h Montreal C u t t i n g "Ten Days From Pre- vious Record-.-River Now Open to t h e Gulf — First Ocean Vessel Expected April 1st.

luoNq-REAL, Que, March 20—Cut- ' m, m, days from the nrevieue. re" cord, the icebreakers Sourel and mdy Grey reached Victoria Pier here today, opening the navigation season on the St. Lawrence River. ' with "no ice in sight” reported at the mouth of the river and some ice in the southern section of the Gulf, the Si. Lawrence river is now open from Montreal to the Gulf. Though depcfldtlllt upon the ice conditions in the Gulf, it is expected that an ocean vessel will arrive here at the begin- ning oi APi-ii.

BRINGS IN

NAVIEATIUN [IPEN- 0N THE ST. LAWRENCE‘

Special Ma

iences Local

After a fifteen‘ hours battle with drift ice, and the strongly running

car ferry, which left Tormentine at 11.30 a. m. on Thursday, reached Borden at 8.55 yesterday morning, landing some twenty-five passen- gers, most of whom had been held up on the mainland for two days. The steamer carried no mails. She Started on return to the mainland at 9.40 a. m., and arrived at Tor- meniitie dflliite heavy ice at 1.10 last evening, ' ' I The ferry left on return for Bor- den at l0 o'clock and at a late hour lest night was 50o yards out in heavy ice.

All trains were running on sched- ule yesterday except that on the

Murray Harbour Branch. The train working from Lake Verde toward

Titan

’Wins Battle Against Ice.

Ferry Completes Round Trip Yesterday. Plane May Make

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received since Tuesday. The plane left Moncton at 11.50 a. m. and the‘ s received at the Post Of-

fice here at 2 p. m.

the second trip to Moncton at 2.30 p. m., but ran into a heavy bunk of fog of! Shedlac and was forced to return. It was his intention to start ofl again after 4 p. m., but weather conditions were not conside cu favorable. He proposes, however, to leave at 6 o'- clock this morning if the weather clears. The early morning trip will be made in addition to the regular 11 o'clock trip.

The mainland train carrying pas-

The Postal Department at the re- quest of Inspector Whear, author- ized a special trip of the mail plane yesterday on account of the tieup oi the ferry. Pilot Dean, who had Just arrived from Montreal, started on

Charlottetown arrived in the about 8.55 last evening. One mail

TNE FEDERAL PARLIAMENT

Prem. Bennett Lau ed In Hollie, For Stand

~'i'akéli‘_'"’"’lle Russian Embargo.

A Chief By

(Canadian Press)

OTTAWA, Ont., March 20. -The first week of debate on the Address in reply to the Speech from the Throne closed with a brief sitting of the House of Commons today. At six o'clock debate was adjourned on‘ the motion of P. F. Casgrain, chiefi Liberal whip and member for Char- evoix, Snguenay. subsequently the linlise adjourned ‘until Monday. 'Whilc the sitting lasted for only illlEt‘ hours, and but three mem-

that he would continue to hold the finance portfolio himself for at least another six months, was contained ill Tuesdays slashing counterudtggck by Premier R. B. Bennett upon the Liberal Opposition. . The Prime Minister fairly took the wind out of his opposition critics when, answering the charge of mm.

bers participated in the debate, there pire disruption launched by Rt. Hon. continua, °n M” 7

were dramatic moments. Armand Mackenzie King, he demonstrated

lavcrgnc, Deputy Speaker of the that the reciprocal tariff proposals

House and memhc for the Quebec enunciated at the recent Imperial ' a constituency Montmugtiy, furnished Conference were essentialy the same Eskuno Prlnce

one oi these when he spoke of‘ the embargo placed against Russia. “lf at any time I felt proud ot‘ being a citizen oi Canada, or fclt proud of 59in! n christian, it was when the Prime Minister of this country. Speaking not only in the name of the . Dominion of Canada, but in thei name of civilization, said, "we shall] Mr. King's have nothing to do with Russia," ns- ' sertcti lvlr. Lavergne with emphasis, The cast- against Russia, he declar-

_cd, llnd iiccn proven to tho hilt.

Ru55ill again figured in thc re- marks of the Speaker, who followed Mr. Lavergne. Angus MacInnis, In-

in content and delivery as the pr-e- ferential tariff principle which all Liberals proudly recall Sir Wilfred Lauricr as laying down at. the con- ference of i902.

Denounces innuendo

innuendo regarding “special interests‘ ‘and possible con- tributiolis by Canada to the upkeep of the British navy were denounced by the Premier as a revival of time- honored Liberal appeals to class, racial and sectional prejudice. Mr. Bennett assented that the Unem- d’ A ‘E “m” member m" 5mm‘ ployment Relief Act and the Septem-

‘Yggwlger’ an" “mm? "w"! °’.ber tariff revision, seen by Mr. King m0 yment in the Pacific Coast,“ a mp m napalm,“ interests], had

iiiv. drew a r i conditions prevamng 1x10051555“: “ghnussmv he given work to more than 200,000 Hid, "we have forced slavery;,in cfmdlpns’, . Canada we have forced idleness, Many Humbug‘. the expression first d “We unemployed mm would be used by Rt. Hon. J. H. 'l‘l1omas re. _ gird to be ‘orced to work;- He suggest gardillg Mr. Bennett's proposals and Ki that Canadians should clean their empmym imierd" b7 M“ ma‘ l“ own doorstep “M, cflucmn‘ Rm,‘ gibing at the Prime Minister, was cunditions in Canada were worse thrown back at the Opposition with ihm they had been when the gov. even greater force by Mr. Bennett. tmment took action at the emer- What other word but this, he ask- Wiiey session of Parliament. What ed in effect, could anyone use with further action did the Government regard to Mr. Kins‘! PTO-Bent 11°F" “NW8 to take, Parliament/had a of the present Government's Russian It? i0 know. “We have a right t0 trade embargo u compared to his mewlbecllii" the B90916 Ii‘! "m"! own administration's action in sever- mzzih- "RPM W» "Mimi"- ing omcial relations with Russia in "e1 maker or the day W" 1m? What word, he asked again, might be so fitly applied to the Op- position icaderh cry for hational un-

~ 4- Bradette. Liberal member for "h Temiakamins. who asserted

city

plane arrived from Moncton yesterday afternoon carry- ing the first mail from the mainland

Turns Tables

Laurie? For Imperial Preference

OTTAWA, March 20._Whdi; w” accepted as a renewed intimation o: a substantial upward tariff revision at the present session of Parliam- ent. COI-ipied with an announcement

i’? I Kiri. he must take her before the

each other. If they answer in the amirmstlve, the chief gives his con- sent to the marriage, and the tribes-

senzers to Prince Edward Island was held up at Melrose ten miles from Tormentine eighteen houm on

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On Libejal

ment. But the price for this year's greater quantity of sold when w" 25 percent below the total price of wheat sold in the corresponding per- iod last year,

Mr- Bennett blamed this lower price on the enormous amount’ d; Wheat 039F911 by Russia at prices be- low the Canadian cost of produc- tion. This price-killing by Russia w“ B-dvlniifld by him as one of the reas- Oni for Canada's recent embargo on Russian Products.

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Covers Prince Edward Island Like the Dew

London Labor Court of Inquiry.

LONDON March 23-1116

ings of the court o! inquiry int» disaster to the dirigibie R-IOI France on Oct. 4.

Herald said.

Thomson, British Minister of Air who perished in the crksh. - The Herald said the court's find- ings declared Flight Lieutenant H. "C. Irwin, captain of the R-101, who also was killed in the crash, did his utmost to avert disaster. The court asserted there was lack or adequate preliminary tests. The findings were revealed after three months o.‘ experiments at the National Physical Laboratory at Ted- dington. An exact scale model of the R-lol, fabric soaked as the orig- inal must have been, was subjected in a wind tunnel to the same atmos- pheric conditions which prevailed near Beauvsis the morning of the tragedy.

Railway Heads Favor ‘ Canadian Coal ' On 2 ‘Lines’.

OTTAWA, March 20.—The two railway presidents, E. W. Bsatty, of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and Sir Henry 'I‘hornton, of the Canad- ian National, expressed tile desire of their systems to use Canadian coal wherever possible during a confer- ence here today with Ncya Scotia representatives and Hon. Wesley Gordon. Minister of Mines and Im- migration.

The Minister announced that the facts as subscribed by the coal rep- resentativss would be closely studied by the Fuel Board and himself and as far as feasible their IEQIIQTE for the use of Nova Scotia coal farther west than the railways are now con- suming it would be followed

The representatives of the Nova Sci tia Coal industry were C. B. Mc- Nuught, president of the British Em- pire Steel Corporation, a id A M. Ir-

‘Organ Reveals Findingstgyf

'i~ 1mg Herald. 0min of the Libel‘ ‘PQXEY-

Government, today revealed the 1% “i” mvamgauom before the Pub , i.‘ i"

Loss of gas in front B” blfl did? to a tear in the upper cover 0W1“! Y0 exceptionally stormy conditions over France were cited as reasmis for the disaster by the court of inquiry. the

The court exonerated the late Lord

Chief Justice Anglln spoke in Eng- lish, “

CHARLOTTMUWN, CANADA, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1931

TllRN BBVE R BAIISE 0F TNE R-Illl DISASTER

N. B“. Legislature

Will Prorogue Orl March 25th.

A (Canadian Press) FREDERIGIDN’, N. 13., March 20 —There seemed little doubt today that the New Brunswick Legislature would wind up its 1931 term and prorogue on Wednesday next, March 25. This would result in a session of less than five weeks of actual sit- an unusually short period. Considerable delay in the business of the House has already been caus-

unts Committee, but these are expected to be cleared

next week. The remaining estimates for the Departments of Public Works and Lands and Mines wareto be discussed in committee oi tho whole of supply this afternoon with the House sitting at the usual time. »

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ST, JOHN'S NL, Mar. 20—Wh11

BISHUP EAllliN

(Special to the Guardian) LONDON Ont., March 30-111 a holograph will that is written entir- ely in his own hand, Bishop M. Ii‘. Fallon distributed his estate of ‘$157,-

iwhioh he possessed to St. Seminary in London. As if to answer the claim of some that he had been unfriendly to the French languese during his militant church career. the Bishop features in the document a provision for a $10,000 grant in the seminary td endow the Fallon chair of French language and literature.

in“ ' v _ _. . ....__..."iclv_s,-.-‘ Argentine Bar Honors Canadians

BUENOS AIREB, Argentine, Mar. 20.—The legal profession of the Ar- gentlne Republic were yesterday the

ship toward the Canadian Bar when Sector Lafalllie, president of the Ar- gentine Bar Association, presented certificates of corresponding mem- bers fo Rt. Hon. F. A. Anglin, Chief Justice of Canada; Hon. I. P. D. Til- ley, president of New Brunswicks Executive Council; l-fon. C. P. Beau- bien, Montreal, and F. B. Feather- stonhaugh. K. C., Argentine vice- consul in Toronto.

When the time arrived for the Canadians to voice their thanks,

Beaubien in his native

"sill. vice president in charge of aria‘

Finds Civilized World Selfish

SEATTLE, March 20. (U. P.)— Charles Matthews, heir to chieftain- ship of 7,000 Eskimos is in Seattle waiting for the ice to break up in Bering Sea, that he may go hack, home to Point Barrow, Alaska. He is homesick for the land where ev- ci-body is ready and anxious to feed

position.

underworld terms in order to detect methods of giving information _ to

sales. The Fuel Board was repre- sented by Dr. Camsell and Neate.

PEN MAIL CENSOR JOB OPEN COLUMBUS, 0., March 20.—'I'he job of mail censor at Ohio penitenti- ary is open to applicants, but not. many will be able to qualify for the The success u: applicant must have a complete knowledge at‘

the hungry and care for the sick. He has been touring the States for ' i7 months, and has become familiar with fast automobiles, airplanes, trains modern hotel accomodstiofis, restaurants and noise of city streets. But he craves his native land, where “they don't try to iind out who you Ere b81011! they ofler help if you're hunlry or sick."

Matthews is an Eskimo prince and will become chief when his jsther dies. He doesn't want to be chief, and he said that he would refuse to take his father's place.

cs of living the nkimo chief's word is law. When a youth wants to mar-

ruier who asks them if they love

convicts in the prison.

ANNOUNCEMENTS.

"Skating tonight Rink.

Jerry and his novelty orchestra. Snappy floor.

orioton , first fine night.

PTO!!! marriage to the simple rul- m‘

W. M. 8., Marshfield. will be held Monday evening, March 28rd. If not fine, Tuesday. 4101

vivid stories by the the Arctic with Moving Pictures.

COMING EVENTS. MEETINGS ETCS.

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"Dancing, Tip ‘Top Inn tonight. lib]. "Concert and box social at Pred- Hall Morph 38rd. If not fine Ladies with boxes

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"Heft Thursds Strand Theatre. A. hdescon of

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French and Mr. Tilley in Spanish-

e “ u" flverase west pI-id in north- "i Ontario was only $2.40 s day. blamed the Conservative party

r “dvmiiiinl an export tax on

“Pwwd- Thls advocacy had help-

"A h” claimed. to destroy the United "=8 market

‘Mimi-i to northern Ontario,

ity at the very moment when he was stirring up prejudice with talk of "special interests‘ ‘and naval con- tributions? Fifty percent mere 01n- ndisn wheat had been sold in Brit- gm- 3mm,“ PM,” aint under the present Government m“- msh tariffs were proving in- dilflnl "i9 PM‘ "W" mum‘ m“ M; in the C0l'l‘0IPOl'l(Tll'l§ seven months . tut an ltndsrthe Kinsiflevuu-

men participate in a great celebra- tion. '

Matthews doesn't like the “civil- iled" world. It is too herd and self- ish altar living among the peaceful, friendly, helpful Eskimos. His tour of the United States on vaudeville circuits taught him much about life.

"A wonderful story of "fen 'I‘hou- sand Miles in the Arctic" at Strand Theatre next Thursday, with un- equalled moving pictures. Admission only L. :cnts. 41854-2141.

"On account of the storm the sale of Cecil Malone, New Wiltshin. of Perl-n, Stock Crop sud fin lolnsntl

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Last Minute News Flashes

_ (Canadian Press)

BERLIN, Mar. zih-Ex-(Jhan- cellor Herman Mueller died 1M6 today.

SANDOWN. anriluui- "m" 20—(Ilptlin R. a Moseley. rid- ing his own Grand National candidate Slievegrln- won- the grand military gold cup steeple- ch", w" glued miles and 118 yards today from MID? C- K- Davy’; Desert Chief.

MEXICO CITY. Mll- 20-1110 burial today in 5 eomlliifll In" of four sisters and their brother is tho final chapter of the most lurid crime of its kind in the history of Mexico. The four girls were shot in their home by thdr 25 79% old brother Loo- pols lnonardo Melendez wile then killed himself with the some pistol.

LONDON, March lib-Tho Sc- grsve Trophy, given cull year to the British subject who locom- plished the most outstanding demonstration of the possibilities of transport by land, alr or wat- er, has been awarded to wing Commander Cllarlel Hillier!!- smlth. The award was nah tel his trnus-Atlslilc flight and bk

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,55'l.45, giving practically everything Peters

authors of a gracious act of friend- _

on a load of hay for two and one A team of horses hitched to the load

wstcr. When the missing man Wll found and the horses released, they . bolted and wondered tin-ouch the woods with their harness on during

tor-logged schooner aboard the sealer Eagle.

for St. John's with 110 rescued mem- bers olr the Vikings crew. Two doc- WPS. 081158111 Abram Kean and sev- en other men left on the Island were to be taken‘ aboard the tug Foundation Franklin, if they were not able to reach the Sa- gona before she sailed, but the Franklin was hemmed in by the ice jam and the sealing steamers Ungava, Eagle, Boot-hic- Neptuno and Imogene also were held fast.

To guard against a shortue of

More Than Half-Million ‘Dollars Goes To Cana- dians, Among Whom Are Many Ontario Peo- ple, Mostly Passengers On Torpedoed Ships.

OTTAWA, March 20-—Awards t0- talling $661,884.50 payable to some 200 claimants residing in different parts of Canada, are made in the interim report of Errol Malcolm Mc- Dougall, K. (7., Reparations Com- missioner, which was tabled in the Commons by Hon. Charles H. Cohan, Secretary of State. Mr. McDougall states he found throughout the country a great number oi deserv- ingclalmants, some in very neces- sitious circumstances, some of them practically destitute.

An interesting Toronto case was that of Mrs. Inuisa Rogers, widow of James R. Rogers, owner and pub- llsher of Jack Canuck. lvlr. Rogers was drowned when the Lusitania was torpedoed by a German submarine. Ho was described by his widow as a "unique figure in Canadian journal- ism." a man of good character and good habits. By his untimely death she Wes deprived of his support, and the publishing business of his oner- gctic and vigorous direction. The business cl. ‘ "y became non-pro- ductive, she was left practically das- titute, and went to live in California as a housekeeper. She claimed J60,-

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Dead Two Days Before Found

(Special to the Guarflsn) QUIBNEL, B. C.. March 20—Char- les Miller, aged 58 of Nuko lay dead half days before his body was found.

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news‘ regarding further survivors .0! the Viking disaster was awaited in vani today, word came of another blow to Newfoundlands sealing in- dustry in the loss of the auxiliary schooner Sir William. No loss of life was incurred in this instance, the - crew of twenty-eight from the wat- being taken

.28 Missing From t Se aler_,_Viking

To Nfld. Fleet

When‘ Auxiliary Schooner

’ Goes to Bottom

i provisions, the Government steamer

St. John's tonight with additional sup-

elProspera was ordered to leave

plis for the Segona. Viking explosion, sealing

persons estimated to be missing

After searching the ioe for twenty- two miles beyond, the scene of the captains reported today they were certain no trace remained of the twenty-six

Annual Subscriptions Delivered 15.05, uy illaii Canada and U. B. A. 04.50.

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‘GOVERNMENT

A Sensational Disclos- ures of Purported Intrigue In Spain.

(British United Press)

MADRID. Mar. Si} “ ' disclosures of purported intrigue in a series of abortive attempts to over- tllrow the monarchy and establish I republic in Spain, were made at the opening of the trial today of 51x 5,.- publicans and socialist leaders, all prominent at one time or another ill the political life of the nation, 51. caia Zamora, former Minister pf yo:

_ and an outstanding figure in the

Easterly gales pushed the ice pack around Horse Island tight against

These Captains believed the missing went down with the ship. The seal- er Elagle, after assisting in the Vik- ing relief work was called upon to-

Republican movement, was docllzlirl slated by the rebels as the first

President of the proposed Spllfllh Republic.

the land this afternoon and prevent- ed the steame SBBOna from leaving