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CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1932

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Atilllllltll 0N CHARGES or M_I_i_lillER

Sadie And Matilda King Now Await Sentence For Gon-

T ‘cealment Of Birth.

(Cl-Indian Press)

PIUIVOU, N. S, Oct. 21—Acquitt- ed on charges of murderlngtheir sister's two-days old infant, Sadie Klllg and Matilda. King, of New Glasgow, tonight awaited sentence for concealment of birth.

The strangled infant's body was found by police in a. thicket on the Picfou Road. Sadie admitted talc- lng it. with Matilda, to the Lourdes cemetery and moving it on the following clay to the other hidng place, but at the conclusion of the case today there was still mystery in regard to the death.

Matilda. was acquitted on the murder charge today after the jury deliberated one hour and fifteen minutes. Conviction on the lesser charge, concealment 0f birth, fol- lowed.

Sadie faced two trials. On Wed- ncsdliy the Jury disagreed and was dsmissed by Chief Justice J. A. Chisholm. The following day a. new jury acquitted on the murder

urge. Sent back by the Chief

' ‘tire, it brought in_a verdict of (dilly of concealment of birth.

Josephine King, mother of the in-

fant, testified at the trials. She de-

clarecl the nfant was alive when

Sadics and Matilda tcck it from her

rooming house on the night of July g5. ANNOUNCEMENTS.

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cos. signed P. McNutt 8c Son.

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hluintellfiln ‘and Basket Soc- ' ‘W100 Hall, Tuesday, October

H u ngc rford Elected Pres. ' Grand Trunk

(Canadian Press)

DETROIT, Oct. bl-Directors of

the Grand Tnmk Western Raiiroad Company meeting here today. an- nounced the election of S. J. Hun- lgerford, o1 Montreal, head of the Canadian National Railways-Sys- tem, as President of the Grand Trunk Company.

Hungerford succeeded Sir Henry Thornton as heed of the Canadian National Railways System and its associated companies a short time ago. The Grand Trunk Western is a part of the Canadian National System.

MAR.BOARD or TRADE MEETS llllil litlll WK.

,Seven Resolutions To Be Submitted At Sessions 0 ct o b e r 25th And 26th.

(Canadian Press)

SAINT JOHN, Oct. 21—Seven r solutions to be submitted at the an- nual meeting of the Maritime Board of Trade at Charlottetown, October 25 and 26 were approved today at e. special meeting of the council of the Saint John Board of ‘Prado. These resolutions sug- gest an inter-provincial economic conference, urge revision of provin- clal financial arrangements with the Domnion, support of Maritime Governments for the Maritime transportation commission; action by Nova Scotia and New Bruns- wick to secure consideration for gifts of public domain to other pro- vinces; more generous governmen- tal support of mineral prospecting in the Maritlmes; continuance of governmental support of the Mar-

l Petition for a recount of the ballets polled in the recent by- election contest in the Fifth electoral district of prince County will today be presented to Judge lnman of the County C0011. Prince County, P. B. Isl- and.

The learned Judge will ‘p-

Petition F or A Recount Will Be Presented Today

HOLD - UP OF WOMAN

Two Bandits Disguised As Women Frustrated In Attempt To Steal

Mint the time within four day:

m" we ma” u m. m“ Car. Woman Wounded fllvlt b! him to recount the

WM. and upon completion will (Canadian Press)

NEW GLASGOW, Oct. 2l—-Dls- guised as women, two bandits held llP Mrs. Mary Blaikie, of New Glas- somtoday, shot her in the should- er when she refused to give up

certify the result to the return- ing officer, who will then 1h- olhre to be elected the eamll. hi" 51ml the hither number of voter.

(Canadian Press)

OTTAWA. Oct. Zl-The Do- minion wlll issue a new loan, "011. E. N. RIIMIQS, Mllllukr n!

_ Finance. told the House of , Commons today. It will be (o; 580.000.0013 and tho probable date of issue. Oct. 31.

Mr. Rhodei Informed the House that the orgaliution for handling the new loan would be

. similar to that which had run

Dominion Government To Float Lame

he!‘ our. and escaped with a few

dollars. The wounded woman, slumped over the wheel of the car was

found by passing motorists and brought to hospital here. Her wound is not serious. . Royal Canadian Mounted Police scoured the countryside tonight, but failed to find any trace of the

Bond Issue

the National Service been. It ""11! l» presided 3n! by sh- Charles Gordon. If. would m:

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Coal Prices In Canada

__._._. Canadian Press)

orrawa one, Oct. ZL-The Canadian fuel board has» been‘- re‘- quested by Hon. W. A. Gordon, Minister of Mines, to enquire into and prepare a memorandum o1 the facts on coal prices in Canada. Of- ficial announcement to this-effect was made tonight by the Minister. Action is being taken on recent sug gestions that coal prices were some- what high. The question was men. tioned in the Senate a few days ago.

All Is Quiet At Portsmouth

(Canadian Press) OTTAWA, Ont., Oct. 21-"The

ltime provinces trade commission. and also endorse the resolution passed at the last annual meeting ‘of the Canadian Chamber of Com- “merce with regard to the imper- ative necessity for rigid Dominion.‘ provincial and municipal economy. ,‘ Delegates to the Maritime Board of Trade meeting will include A. L. Foster, president of the Saint John Board; F. M. Sclnndcrs. the com- missloner and probably several members of the council.

entire quota of B08 prisoners at Portsmouth Penitentiary are now in their cells and every one has been fed for the night." This state- ment was made by Hon. Hugh Guthrie, Minister of Justice, to- night following long distance tele. phone communication with King- ston.

No prisoners tonight are in the dormitory part of the prison, Mr. Guthrie declared. Those convicts who could not be placed in the regular cells have been put in mod- ern cells in the new women's pris- on building and the men's asylum building. Tile prisoners temporarily

Rev. Dr. Duncan Dies In Scotland _ placed in the new women's building ~and men's asylum are "trusties"

MONTREAL. Oct 21-1116 Prcs- and their transfer had been ef- bvterlnn Church in Montreal today‘ fectcd ivlthout the least trouble. mourned the loss of Rev. George the Minister 551.;

Duncan, D. D., who retired some 915mg“; o; gum, Rammed time ago as minister of the church 011M115, o“, 31,3053“; 1n the of St. Andrew and Bt- Paul and corridors or Parliament tonight is

died today at Dumfries, Scotland.

A native of Nova Scotia, Dr. Duncan was educated at Edin- burgh University where he won distinction. Later in life he was author of several highly esteemed religious works.

no returned to Canada. n1 1e14, remaining in Montreal until a few years ago when for reasons of

that there may be a dismissal of some of the guards at Portsmouth Penitentiary. The report is that some guards showed lack of courage in the disturbances at the institu- tion. No official comment on the rumor is obtainable.

Soldiers Withdrawn One hundred members of the

health, he accepted a call from Royal Canadian Horse Artillery Govan, Scotland. were withdrawn tonight from duty

Mrs. Duncan is the only surviv- It Portsmouth Feiftentlary, l-lon lng relation. Hugh Guthrie, Minister of Justice

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Only 50 of the

- Pmsram ‘lzsilies and ciilnliffieifi}. 52$- Bc a é! aid of Convent. Admission l‘ 15¢ 5973-10-22-81.

Rose 0c I rve tober 24th for Play- '"“ and me ent Marsh-

hfieid Rink.

' Peardon Buildinl. Greet George St.

militia are. now stationed at the in- otltution, the Minister stated.

"Yen's movies at l-lartsvilie Hall Monday. Oct. 24. 6000-10-22-21

_,___ "Dr. Hector M. MacKenrie, Dentist. anncun oponinl of his office Monday, Oct. 24. l0 0 8-01-

Flyer Missing

‘MAO-M's’ (Cauulfln Prue)

Mrs. “Blaike did) not remember anything after that. Whether the bandits were frightened by an ap- proaching vehicle or too shocked ‘at what they had done to drag lher from the car, she did not know.

LIBERAlS Sllll

be ‘flvh-ble ‘t “u! "m. h lbfllldltS. u" “u”, m my,“ m “m, l Mrs. Blaikie, a widow drove to no “an She planned to makelothcr calls A pol-um M ‘h’ h", ‘an at Stellarton on the return trip mnufln‘ on "Womb" 1 m“ larton when two women, she the victory ham’ Ion the running board as she stop- ‘ ‘ped the car, and one asked to be l cel. Mrs. Blaikie turned to open u" T I 0 N s two revolvers. "Your money or your car,” said l ' They were insistent that she shoul." quite clear that she was staying ‘l ‘they doffed their wigs and dsclos- ‘ "We mean business," one of them ' - Air Mail, wheel and one man fired his re- ‘volver. Board 0i Trade Air mail service, cancellation of the service of the S. S. Hochelaga ‘the matter of freight rates between Joundland, were among the mat» ters discussed at a meeting last Council. Mr. Samuel Kennedy, the‘ , Representatives of the Canadian ,Airways, Montreal, Messrs Jenkins ‘brought before the council Ethel matter of air mail service for the (Canadian Press) ‘Board take up the matter. New Zealand Parliament was pas- l ' agreements while front benchers in l A wire from Mr. W. Chester S. MC" ‘Lure, M. a. was rend pelntlns out

“c” which would be nude pub Alma this afternoon to visit friends. b, "ed to "u" 334,500,000 and was between Westville and Stel- whloh w” a Forum, of one o’ ‘thought, hailed her. They jumped ‘driven to Stellarton to get a par- the door and was confronted by i one of the bandits. She passed over what little money she had with . _ her, but refused to give up the car get. cut, and when she made it _ ed masculne heads. S e r V l 9’ declared. She remained behind the I Rates Come Up Ati Meeting. ‘during the month of November. Charlottetown and St. John's, New- everilng of the Board of Trade president, was in the chair. P P A ,snd Drury were present. and’ ' A , t., O t. 2I.-'I‘h.' ‘winter months. suggesting that the? an WA on c P "mmemn service the Canadian House stepped back that the l-lochelagas I19]; earninfl

private members. It was the fifth l day of debating and it may be sev- ' eral days before the House decides on the motion to ratify the Canada- Unltod Kingdom treaty. Once again Liberals hammered away at the treaty, aiming especially at its high tariff features, and once again Corlservatives were solid in its sup- port. Hon. Raymond Morand, Con- servative, East Sussex, a member of the last Meighen Cabinet, was outspoken in defence of the treat- ies. It was natural that protection Government would make, if the formed its basis. The government service were discontinued. Iibllow- was elected on that platform and m‘ m, fgcejvlng c; the desired if!‘ ‘"0: has maintained protection as formation another counflil 1'0"“!!! pgteetgn not as a shutin." would be called. ma with a. popula ion of i0.- A letter from the Canadian 000.000 could not afford to drop its Chamber of Commercewas read iu- ‘ta-riff barriers argued Dr. Morsnd. forming the Council that the sup- [We cannot sacrifice our people on port of the Board would be xequlr-ltho altar of example to the rest of ed in membership. It was decided -the world. Prom down in the Marl- theg the ccusfomary fee should be times William Duff, Liberal, An- fcrwarded. There was some disoul- tlgonish, Ciuysboro, the "Admiral" “on on m, p, posed investigation on Parliament Hill. took the oppo- by the Canadian chamber of Oom- amok. Unite: Ssitas wogld '3:- e a ' ‘ an a an e United Kingdom for the increases in duty, he predicted. As a practic-

gm- 1932 were about one-half the earnings of last Ye" “l? 0° Sept-- 30, and that, in vlew of the flci that earnings for November would be about $800. permission had been asked of Ottawa to have the ser- vice diseontinue the end of Ocwbfl‘ instead of the end of Nflvflmbel‘ l5 heretofore. The wire asked the UplXIlOD of the Board on the mat- ter. It was decided to Wife l" l1‘ tum inquiring what savlfl! u"

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DARING/

.the most brilliant and picturesque

formerly of the County C0111‘?- l“ saint John, N. B., is dead here 8i ' the age of 96 years. I

from debate leaving the ifield to,

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probably a few showers.

THE WEATHER

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Freq; to ntmng westerly while,

cloudy and a little g cooler, light scattered

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NEW lRADERatificaEzTon or AGREEMENT TradeAgreements WITHEPSSIA Forging Ahead i

Treaty W111 Place National Gov’t. Turning Back By Huge Majorities Series Of Liberal And Free Trade Amend- mentsConnectedWithThePacts

England On a More! Even Balance Than‘ In The Past. ii

LONDON, Oct. 21—By over- ‘whelming majorities the House of“ ‘lCommoiis this evening passed a] iseries of resolutions preparatory to jratifying the Imperial trade agree- ; ments.

l At the same time the House |heard Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, §Lord President of the Council and ‘Conservative leader, declare the ,United Kingdom would shortly in- iitiate negotiations for a new trade ;treaty. with RUSSlBr-B. treaty re- placing the present most-favored- ination treaty, which Great Britain i is terminating. , l The United Kingdom does not'

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_lMr. Baldwin said, but in the future ,1 ‘Anglo-Russian trade must be on a‘

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lBlllllliiNlg JURIST PASSES lNTiiltilNTil

96th Year — Wasj Born In Pictou, N.S.

(Canadian Press) TOR/ONTO, Ont, Oct. Zl-One 0f

figures of the Canadian Bench,‘

Hon. Mr. Justice James Forbes.

Judge Forbes came to ‘Iiorontfl only a year ago, althouzh hi? 718d retired from the bench in 1916. H8 was born in Pictou County. N~ 5-- but spent most of his life in 5301i John and served on the Bench 1!! New Brunswick for 20 yeti-m H6 W” admitted to the Bar in 1865 aft"

sing the Imperial Conference trade “mending Harvard Unwersm,’ when classmate; included Omar Wendell behalf of A. F. Blake, chairman 0i‘

t

[Holmes distinguished United Stat- the Waterways flvmmiitw e Jurist Maturfng during the time ‘Saint John Boardl of 'I‘raclc. E. M. s ' Sclanders,

of Confederation Judge Forbes was ,

"wish to stop trading with Russia, v

(Canadian Press)

LONDON, Oct. Zl-Thc National Government forged ahead today toward ratification of its Ottawa Conference trade pacts. turning back by huge majorities a series of hmendements aimed. at financial resolutions connected with the ag- reements.

In the report stage of the resol- utions, Laborites and Free 'I‘rade Liberals renewed their attack on the agreements. but the futility of their efforts became apparent in di- visions which gave the Government majorities ranging from 16B to 195

In the midst of considerable bic- kering Nevillc Chamberlain, Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, arose and warned the Opposition, the Gov- ernment had no intention of sub- mitting to any attempt at blockad- ing its enabling legislation. 1n the face of any such attempt, he said, the Government would exercise em- ergency powers

Discussion of abrogation of the United Kingdom's trade pact with the Soviet, a move resulting from Canadian requests, brought a scmr what heated contention from Gab- riel Price, Laborito, that Prime Min- ister R. B. Bennett of Canada har’

made the request and at the same‘

time approved an oil deal betw" the Soviet and the Aluminum Cor- poration of -Canada.

Mr. Price said he regarded thc Canadian position as anomalous At the same time he urged a new agreement with the Soviet should be concluded before abrogation of the existing pact. He ended by dc- claring heatedly there had been considerably more feeling and sen-

in handling the Russian situation.

REPiilli all

WATERWAYS

(Canadian Press) SAINT JOHN, Oct. Zl-Acting on

0f the

commissioner for the

wen acquaint/ed with the leaders 0g iboard, submitted a report to the ‘that movemcnpMacDonaldy mp- council today on an kiterview the ‘per’ Brown and Othmt one of his committee had this week with the (prjmd pgggcssions was a watch ‘Dominion Waterways experts. J. '1‘. iprcgented in recognition of his ser- ‘Johnston, director of the water, lvjcaq as 5 member of the Confed- power and Hydrometric Bureau at icmuon clecucm committee of 1336, Ottawa, and G. A. Lindsay. oi‘ tho i Judgg Forbes was connected with Department of Railways and Can-

the Masonic Order for many V95"- Ibemg a past grand Master of the New Brunswick lodge. He W85 act‘ ively interested in the British and Fbrejgn Bible society and the New Brunswick branch of the Vicibfifl" order of Nurses. The Judle W" a member of the United Church General Council and a Consens-

als.

The St. Lawrence ulzitcrwnys pro- Jectwas the subject of the inior- view. The report. which was hp- provcd, said “the matter of Mar- timo advantages from the project remans just where it was." The board, it was stated; is unable to see any economic advantages from the project so far as the Mari-

uve’ surviving are a daughter, MP5. Harvey Morton. of Tfimlpllna- “l” idad, and six grand-children. ‘The funeral services will be held to- morrow with Dr. T. Albert Moorb. Moderator of the United Church.

officiating.

times are concerned, but it is pre- .pared to view the questions from h ‘national standpoint. Filrthor not- ion in the matter was loft for Saint John delegates to the annual mo"

ing of the Maritime Board of Trude at Charlottetown. October 25 and 26

(Canadian Press) OTTAWA, Oct. Zl-Notlce of lncorpofatlcn of Nymco Invest- ment Co., Ltd., 500 shares N.

(Canadian Press) PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia. Oct. Zl-The Ministerial Council de- cided tonight to submit the res-

islulill PASSES

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iLeaving Nine Dead In Its Wake — A110th- er Storm Reported From Lake s Re- gion.

BOSTON, Oct. 21—A driving northeast rainstorm which left. a toll of nine deaths and much prop- erty damage in its wake. left New England todnyl and passed out to S08.

George A. Lovelzind, United States Weather Bureau meteorolo- gist, said, however. that another storm of lesser intensity, coming in from the Great Lagos region, probably would add to the rccord rainfall recordedsince late Mon- day night. When rain ceased fall- ing today the Weather Burcau re- ported u fall of 5.90 inches.

Tile last of many dangerous in- cidents resulting from the north- leastcr occurred shortly before {dawn today when coast guardsmen [saved the foundcring yacht Lcisurc and its crew of two men off Wol- laston. The coast guard picket boat came perilously close to foun- iicring in the turbulent seas before the Leisure was taken in tow.

The ninc deaths taken during the storm were those of three fish- ermen swept into the sea from the

Itifnent than common sense exhibited ' r0016 it Jamestown. R- I-. Yester-

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