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(Canadian Press) CALGARY, April 22. — Death stalked into Alberta's wildest bliz- zard of 20 years tonirht, taking the life of Thomas Bradley, farmer of the Priddis district, when mercy flights by two airplanes failed.

The death of Bradley came as the storm's wild fury was dying down in most parts of the province after ripping down more than '1,000.tele- phone and telegraph poles, strewing wires across wide stretches of coun- tryside, paralyzing thc traffic in Calgary and blocking ‘“ J or

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ﬂtBy und-"s land's suing debacle spread farther‘ afield today as Sir John Bennett, former Colonial Secretary for the Munroe administration and Minis- ter of Militia for several years, be- came the latest defendant in a series of actions under the Place- men's Act, which states that any member of the Legislature who re- ceived emoluments from the Crown apart from his salary and indemn- ity shall forfeit $230 for every day he sits in the House after liability is established. . This action brought the numbe

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BERMANY Will.

REPARATIONS

corona, Germany. April 22.- (APJ-Financc Minister Harman Dietrich told a Republican election mass meeting tonight that Germany will!“ My no more reparations at thc cnd of the Hoover moratorium. "The nation today is in the last round of the struggle to liquidate the war,’ ‘he said. “When the mor- ltorium expires July 1st Germany will no longcr pay."

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(Canadian Press)

NEW YORK, April 22.--All avail- able fire apparatus in Manhattan was called out to subdue a fire that swept through three commercial buildings and four tenement houses in East Tenth Street tonight. Two firemen were injured, one seriously. He was Albert J. Pcrrody, who fell to the sidewalk from the top of a- 65 foot extension ladder, suffering‘ a fractured skull and internal in- Juries.

Fireman Joseph T. Carroll, stand- ing at the 35 foot rung of the iad- I dcr, the to of which was obscured’ by billowing smoke, also fall when the release of Perrody's weight caus- ed the apparatus to sway.

Seventy families were driven from the tenement houses, as two fire- boats in the East River swung into action and land apparatus began converging from n!) parts of Man- hattan.

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(Canadian Press) O/ITAWA, April 22.——A steady in- crease in Canada's exports, partic- ularly in wheat, flour and planks and boards. in the first three months of the year, together with greatly increased production of au- tomobiles and the primary indus- tries of iron and steel are a few of the favorable factors in the Dc- lninion's improving economic ccn- dition, revealed in Government fig- ures issued during the past week. The increasing exports of Caiiud- ian cattle to the British market, where they arc fetching rop prices and the increased volume of build- ing permits issued for construction work in Canadian cities also indic- ate a favorable upward trend in tho Dominionb activities.

The increasing volume of wheat

lrilffiisl; BIJNTINGENT?

Sir Robert Borden Re; views Early W ar; Days In Address To Red Chevron Club At Ottawa.

UITAWA, April l2. (By the Call- adian Prsssi-If the uisue of m‘ “m w“ not coinple‘ ‘- successful in its handling of thc far eastern embroglio, at least it did not whol- 1y fail. Rt- Hon. Sir Robert Borden. Canada's war time premier, told the Red Chevron Club hero mnishi- This was the occasion of their an- nual dinner. held on thc anniver- sory or tn opening day of the m" cnd battlc . of Ypres, i915.

"I venture to believe that ihc outcome would have been inﬁnitely more lcrious except for the exist- once of the League and the efforts it put forth," sli- Robert added- Proposing a toast to the "ﬂfli

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shipments featured Canada's export trade in the past few months. Dur- ing the first quarter of the year wheat shipments totalled aoszazica

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Cupone ‘Would Like To Have His Liberty

HOPEWELL. N. 1., April 22. — Al Capone, Chlcigo gangster, has offered to ob- tain the return of the kid- nap ‘t Lindbergh baby within a few days if Colonel Lindbergh vvfll obtain his rc- icaco from Jail for that pur- pccc. A high oﬂcful dis- closed today that a Capone lieutenant placed the pro- position before him this wcck for presentation to the flycr.

At the came time, tbc of- ficial laid bc was ccnvinccd Colonel Lindbergh personally re-cctabllabcd contact with the Milan: hc believed an holding his child captive. Tbc contact was made wbffc thc Colonel was absent from his homo ‘loudly night to Int night. '

Steady Increase In Can. Exports Dominion’s Impr-o-ving Economic

Condition Revealed During The Past Week. ___

bushels. Exports in April are ex- pected to be considerably higher than previous months as bookings

month exceed in exports of wheat from all ports for the month of April i021.

Opening of navigation in the St. Lawrence is also expected to result in increased overseas movement of wheat.

Double Suicide

LYNN, Mass, April 22.—.1osephinc Williams, 65, did not believe her failing health would mend. Forrest Williams, '10, felt his infirmities would not permit him to cars for her. so brother and sister early tc- day opened four gas burners and sat before their kitchen stove until death came to them.

SEBCNI] N.B.

‘CRIMEBIIRINE PRESENliiEEK

Wednesday N i g h t’s M u r d e r Followed

By Holdup Last

Night When Two U. S. Tourists Were , Robbed.

(Canadian Press)

SAINT JOHN, N. 13., April 22.1- Two crimes in New Brunswick this week have given the authorities plenty of activltY- "WW: the murder Wednesday night of George Smith, M-ycars-old storakccper at ‘lictcgouchc, came information to- day that a pafr of United sum tourists hld been held up on a

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New York Port Com- missioner Charges Smoot-Hawley Tar- iff Responsible For Crippling Country’s Foreign Trade And Commerce.

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(Canadian Press)

NEW YORK, April 22.—A general attack against the tariff barriers erected by this country was made at the annual dinner here of the United States Council of Importers ' and Traders.

Howard S. Cullman, ccmmimione. of the port of New York, led the on- slaught when ho charged the Smoot-Kawley tariff was mainly responsible for the crippling of this country's foreign trade and com- merce. '

"We are reaping the fruit of our own folly in the retaliatory tariff measures which other nations are rapidly setting ‘up against our pro- ducts," he said. _

Senator Alban W. Barkley, of Kentuc‘ , said the present Ameri- cam-tariff. and the barriers which

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tion of the activities of‘ Senators Wilfred Laurier McDougald and’ An- drew Haydon, with a temperate rebuke of Senator Donal. Raymond, featured the report, fabled in the Senate this afternoon, of the com- mittee which, under the chairmanship nr l-lnn, c, ‘E, Tanner, lnvcgﬁgglgd i‘ Beauharnois in its relation to these three members of the Upper House. l The severity of the strictures on Dr. McDougald exceeds even the sferni rcproval administered to the Senator last year in the House of Com-

rnons committee report. (This loft

speaking from his place in the Sena The Senate committee's report

ties and standing as a Senator."

Language of a similar nature with him for accepting ' "dependant vitally on Gov larly when the Government was on lncnt supporter.

ority today issued a statement de-

The Senate committee's report. is‘ not concurred in by the four Lib- eral members of the committee- Rt. Hon. George P. Graham, Hon. C. W. Robinson, Hon. A. B. Copp and Hon. F. L. Biequc. This min-

er document found it difficult m‘ the commit I-e to understand how thc Senator could “allow his private‘ interest to so interfere with his public duty that he found it necessary,-

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conclusions therein set up are amply instilled by the evidence that Senator McDougalrfs actions were not fitting or consistent with his du-

is employed in csstiga“ g Senator

Haydon. Of Senator Raymond the criticism is milder, but fault is found

fundsfrom s. compan which was franchises or concessions" particu- o of which the Senator was a. prom-

claring the findings of the major- ity "not warranted by the evidence adduced." When the formality of tabling the report was concluded in

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connection with the reorganiza- tfon of the provincial 1101160 M“! prohibition forces under the Royal Canadian Mounted Pol- ice, has been ppointed to the poet of Inspector-in-chargc o! R. C. M- P- activities in Prince Edward Island. Inspector Frlpps, who has been second in command at Monoton to Col. C. .1 unget. Assist- ant Commissioner, came to the Maritime; from Vancouver in the latter part of March Prim‘ to the taking over cf the Federal Customs Preventive Scwlcc and the N. B. Provincial Police. A native of Halifax, he has bun a. member of the ‘Mﬂllni-lvﬂ" f0" many yuan and is regarded l8 a. most efficient officer. He serv- ed with the Canadian forces in Franco throughout thc Great War.

News Briefs

(Canadian Pros!)

NEWCASTLE, N. B., April ZQ-Charlcc J. Morrissy. 51. for- mer member of thc Provincial and Dominion Parliaments, dled at his home here today. lie had been in ill health for a your and a half.

WOLFVILLE, N. S., April lit-Clark M. Gormlcy, who rc- tfrcd several your ago after a ffru record ac a teacher in Nova Bcoila schools, died hero today at the ago of d8.

8'1‘. JOHN'S, NflrL, April 22 —(ly the Canadian Pram- Jcmcc llcffcrman‘ and two of his cons wcn drowned at Sal- vage on Wednesday when their small boat unpaired during a. nil. according u» a mccugc rc- oclvcd In S‘. John's today.

AYIISFOBD, N. S., April 22 s-Ilv. C. M. Baird, for the last far yuan Rector of so Mary's Plfﬁl, Cllltch of England, at lﬂﬂfotd, died today after an flinch of several months. Ju- id‘! “ling to Aylclfcrd be was Bum at Jbsrlns Mines, n. s.

British

(Canadian Press)

WASHINGTON, April 22-—Ap- Uproximatcly $98,000,000 of United States exports to Great Britain are affected by the new tariff duties just announced at London.

Tariff experts of the United States Department of Commerce, announcing that figure today said however, the exact total could not be determined until the British schedule is received from William L. Cooper. commercial attache of the London Embassy.

Cooper cabled the Department today that the new rates ranged from 15 to 33 1-3 percent with 20 percent a predominate assessment.

“Of the total net British im- ports from the United States amounting in i930 to $700,000,000" said a statement from the Depart- ment, "it had earlier been estimat- cd that about two percent had come under the 50 percent duties of the abnormal importation act and about

from the free list to 10 percent un- der the general tariff.

Archbishop Of Canterbury Seriously Ill

(Associated Press)

CANNES, France, April 22-Thc condition of the Most Rev. COSmOa G. Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury. who has been here for the last, month to convalescc from an ill- ness, is causing apprehension to his family, it was leained today.

Lord Dawson of Penn, physician to King George, saw the Archbish- op yesterday and since then has been in touch with local physicians supervising thc case.

45 percent had been transferred“

U. S. Export Trade ‘Hard Hit By The

Tariff

English Editor Meets Death By Drowning

, England, April 22 —(A.P.)—E. T. Scott, Editor of the Manchester Guardian, was drown- ed in Lake Windermere this after- noon.

Mir. Scott, accompanied by his son Richard. was on his way to his yacht in the lake. Their small dinghy suddenly capsized and both were thrown into the Wfiif-‘r- T110 father, a strong swimmer, struck out for shore. while the lad clung to the keel of the boat.

Scott had swum only about 50 yards when he suddenly disappear- ¢d_ The boy was later saved.

Haydon gly Condemned

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ion Associafion of Chartered Ac- countants, formerly of‘ St. Eleonora. this Province, who is visiting the City on official business.

MYSTERY or MISSING run IS s iliiIEll

Complete Record Of Transactions With Ontario Hydro Oom- lnission Collies To Light.

(Canadian Press)

TORONTO, April 22.—"The mys- tery of the missing iyles." a problem which aroused wide attention during the session of the Ontario Legisla- tul-c, was solved today. The fyles, a complete record of transactions with the Ontario Hydro Commis- sion, in which John Aird, Jim, was concerned, were missed when Mr. Aird moved from an office building, and were later offered to Sir John Aird, Premier George S. Henry; Hon. W. H. Price, Attorney Gen- eral, and opposition leaders.

Before the royal commission in- vestigating hydro affairs today, a dapper young Torontonian told of having phoned Sir John Aird, un- dar an assumed name, and offer- ing him the fyios. Later his father entered the witness box and rc- pcated many of the details of the circuitous path by which the pap- ers were finally given to an official

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Record & Forecast of the Weather

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northwest. “hula increasing in lllrmig or gains: mostly fair llllll minnow-lint rnnlr-r.

llnriiilnr- Provinces: Strong nmi in- vronling iron! to northwest mostly fnir nml somewhat coup-r.

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