MAXIMS OFA MERE MAN A politician IIIRY steal a horse where n bank clerk may not look over the ledger. 7 "n"; Guul wylotlelown mun, Founded I881. Guardian Two Cents. 9} l Concert Singer I T0 VISIT SAILOR. HUBBY Megan Foster, English concert linger, as she arrived in Boston, ilus, recently, enroute to Bermuda lo visit her husband, Chili. E. J. Spanner, D. S. 0- of ll. M. S. Dragon. British Steamer _Is Paid 'Unusual Courtesies In U.S. NEiV YORK, March 2l—The_ Brit- Ish freighter City of Victoria today mciuded a six-day visit to this port luring which she was the object of unusual courtesici. ' At least seven United States gov- ernment officials attended her eon- ltI-ntly. when she departed she was ccortcd by a revenue cutter which Ilii take ‘icr to Boston and Port- '_ an. me. where she is discharging lumber. The cutter will stay with her . until she is well on her way from Fenland to St. Pierre, Miquelon. The reason for all this is that aboarri the vessel are 31,150 cases of rye whiskey’, valued at $1,500,000. The ship left Victoria, B. 0., Feb. ll. . U. S. Consul At Q u e b e c Is Badly Scalded (Special to the Guardian) QUEBEC. March 21-45. H. Denni- son, Unllrd States Consul here for the lest five years, was reported in l 59110118 condition in a liospful to- llly from burns recslvsdivlicn he fell lnto a bnhlub full of toiling water. Dennison, WllO is gmrtiy purifyzed was about to step into n buih in his Illartmcirt at the Chateau Frontznac when he lost his balance. Hc grasp- ld the hot writer top as he fell. . llllllllil; it on and lay helpless for ‘ leveral minutes before his wife arriv- “l l" "Bilfinse to his cells for help. - Physicians were hopeful of saving _ his life. . , muouucsmcurs. = commc EVENTS, ; MEETINGS ETCS. g llvc stock "Wlltshire club loadin . 4107-3-23-11 llllllledey 2am "s" Flllllllanu Fortune, Com- "ll llsll. March 25th. ene-a-za “Morell shipping club loading Mk. Wednesday, March as, 624-343 ‘ "rgonccrt and box social at Fred- mst " Hill. March 23rd. If not fine m fine night. Ladies with‘ boxes ‘ ' llU-{i-fll-Zl Q MLWM to the dance in Graham's m lleil. Tuesday, March 24th. n "m. Wednesday night. 4111-8-28-21 Holds Horse Island. 7 fiHlilitll-“E-il‘ BIIRNED T0 IJEATHIN HUME (British United Press) PLYMOUTH, N. H., Mar. 22— Seven children perished in a fire which destroyed a. frame cottage °Wlled by their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Avery, at l-loideruess, near here. early today. Three others. children. were rescued by their p”- ents and taken to Plymouth Hospi- tal. Their eondtion tonight, how- ever, was considered serious. The dead: Sterlc, 20; George, 14; Harry, 10; Fred, 9; Milton, 5; Daily, 3; Jo- seph, 9 months. Those under treat- ment at the hospital were: Frank, 18; Thomas, 1'1; and John, 18. They were reported suffering from nu- merous burns about the head and body. According to authorities the fire was believed to have started in the kitchen of the home. Sterle, it was said, returned home shortly after midnight and smelled smoke as he was retiring and went to investigate, and as he opened the kitchen door was greeted by e belch ‘of, flames. He ren to-the upper part of the house to amuse his brothers and sister from their sleep. Mrs. Avery was awakened and attempted to save the lives of several of her child- ren. She dropped one of them from an upper window and then turned to rescue others, but was overcome by smoke and carried to safety by her husband. Would Like To Have The Princes Longer MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay. March zl-ulruguay is disappointed that the Prince of Wales and Prince George could spend only twelve hours here today on thclr way to Brazil, making impossible the elaborate program which had been intended. The pro- gram for this affemoomand tonight will keep the Royal visitors rushed, yet the Prince of We!es hopes to be eble to slip off with President Gab- riel Terra to sec a prize i181"? be‘ tween Justo Suarez and Juan Cassia. He saw Suarez fight in Buenos Aires and wants to sec him azallh Tho Princes were greeted by nation- al authorities upon their arrival at the port and proceeded immediately to the Uruguayan golf club where a luncheon was given in their honor by the British Chamber of Commerce The -Prlnces attended a ptfon given by the British community and visited the home of 1-”. ident Tern. after which they visited r couple of British schools and then played golf. 1,000 Bandits Slain In China KIUKIANG, Chino, March 21- The Nationalist Government claim‘ ed today its forces hid routed ban- dit conununisis in southwest Kienglli Province, killing 1.000 in the lost “gill-firm runes shipping club load- . "m" 5W! Wednesday 26th at [mini Annual meeting postponed n r list week to be held some day ‘ "lwk- 4108-3-23-11 armies have levied tribuio upon this ggglqn, deqaclilng the countryside, mgggwrlng lnhhblhhtl. Crew To Island Every Effort‘ Being Made’ to Help Last of Sealer’s Survivors Qn Viking .__i__ (Canadian Press) 5'1‘. JOHN'S, Nf., Mar. zz-rog, snow. rein and n northeasterlfgale continued to keep the last of the Vikings survivors on Horse island until six o'clock this morning, ‘A; that hour the weather had moder- ated sufficiently to permit a group of thirty men to assist the remain- ing sick and injured members of the sealei-‘s crew out across the ice to the rescue steamer Sagona, which already had aboard more than five score of the survivors. The storm raged all night but fine and clear weather was reported from Horse Island today. Landiines broke down as a result of a silver thaw and no late communication with Ships off Horse Island has been possible. All the sealing steamers, as well as the Sagonn, remained lcejemmed to- night. The wind was changing to o more westerly "direction however, bringing hope that befcne long the ice might loosen enough to enable the ships to reach the open water visible from their ice-bound posi- tion The tug Foundation Franklin, re- turning from the vicinity of Horse Islend.,wls hove to fifty miles off] St. John's tonight, unable to make‘ port owing to continued heuvy sens. The United States coastguard cut- ter General Green, enroute here to Offer any assistance required, has yet to reach port, and the Govern- ment steamer Proepero, carrying ad- ditional suppll for the Viking's i. liieavy Weather New York for England whore he will survivors, was last reported battling northward. Announceme -t was made last night by the Prime Minister of New- foundland, Sir Richard Squires, that e commission appointed under auth- ority of the Governor-in-Council would conduct an official public in- quiry into the disaster. The chair- man of the commission will be Sir William Horwood, Chief ‘Justice of the Supreme Court of Newfound- land. Captain Dalton. in charge of the steamer Proepero, has been ask- ed to act as one of the other two commissioners. . HALIFAX, N. 3., Mar. 22—-The aeroplane expeditions, organized to search for those missing from the sealer Viking and to obtain pictures and further news relating to the disaster, took off from points in the Maritime Provinces today and made safe lancVngs in Newfoundland. A third plane was unable to get away because o1.’ engine trouble. leaving St. John, N. Bu, this morning in nu Sikorsky amphibian-l Bernt Bnlchen arrived at Humber-l mouth, near Corncrbrook, Nfid., at- 1 p. . seven hours later. Balchen and his companions spent the night at Cornerbrook. The amphibians right pontoon was slightly dnmoged, but not enough to prevent continu- ation of the flight. Non arrival of gasoline held the plane to the ground this afternoon. The neces- sary fuel will not reach the amphib- ian until morning. As many flights as necessary will be made frun 00r- ncrbrook for assurance tlnt no men or bodies have been left on the ice around Horse Islond. Bolchen left ‘all surplus gear, including pero- chutes, in Saint John so that a maximum fuel supply could be okr- rled. Bob Iiogg, who flew his bi- plane to Sydney. N. S., yesterday from Concord, New Hampshire, was delayed in taking off today and left five and a half hours after Balchen had departed from St‘. John. N“. four days. For two you: brlgand Buy at Ill p. in. Al he had passed Qpplylng the torch to cities and cetod he hid flown om the icefields however, went farther than Bolchen and landed ot llampden. on White over Corncrbrook two hours and fif- teen minutes earlier. the time indi- trouble. Covers Prince Edward Read by Everybody island Like the Dew ‘nauwrr q-Qwu, gamma, MONDAY, MARCH 2s, 192.1 Never company-nor one man and only one woman. MAXIMS OFA MERE iilAN should you have n mixed —except with onlv s PAGES i, Annual Subscriptions Heine-real “LN. By Mull Cununiu llil'| L‘. b. A. $1.50. l Appointed I MINISTER T0 cuna Sir John Joyce Broderick, newly upointcd British minister to Cuba, photographed when he jailed from enjoy n short yaeatlon before taking i.) h‘: new duties. llc wlo formerly attached to the British embassy in Wuhlngton. Ila ullerl March 14.- Associated Press Photo. 1V. B. Signs to Be Taxed $1 PerFt. And L i cen s ed FREDERICTON, March 2l—A bill to provide for the licensing and taxation of signs in New Brunswick was introduced in the Legislature today by Hon. A. J. Leger, Provincial Secretary-Trees urer. It is one of the new meno- ures of taxutiou forecast by him ln his budget address. Tho-bill pdifllern. license fee of $8 for each elgu visible from any highway and designated "highway" as any rend on which provincial money has been ex- pended. The llcenses will be ls- sued by highway engineers. In addition to the license, the bill provides e. tax of $1 per lin- eal foot, measured on the long- est side of the sign, on ordinary signs, and a tax of $2 per lineal foot on luminous signs visible .by day or night. Newfoundland fisheries Faced With Hard Times MONTREAL, March 21—New- foundiand is facing what promises to be the hardest year in its history, Sir John C. Crosbie. former Minis- ter _of Finance and Customs in the Newfoundland government, seid in] an interview here yesterday. The business depression which hes so seriously affected the rest of the world is just beginning to be felt there, he said, predicting it would take on serious proportions during 1931. “Other people may say differ- ently but that is my personal opin- ion," he said. The fisheries industry, the biggest business of the country, would be hit the hardest, Sir John believed, and this would result in many hard- ships for the people engaged in it. The manufacturers, paper mills and no forth would not suffer grcotly and there was little likelihood of much unemployment in those b. nchee of commerce. landing at Hempden, which is cp- pnndmalely e0 rniiee from Home Is- land, Hampden is a lumber settle- ment and it was believed llfogg would have no difficulty in securing eddi- ticnol fuel. Both Bolchen and Ho“ met clear weather along the west court of Newfoundland. Rennrirebiy fen time was made along the coast to Cornerbrook. Both planes covered the distance of 115 miles in vc min- utes. Captain C. 1". Kent, of the At- lantic Airways at Moncton, ‘N. 8., reached Piotou, N. 5., yesterday, but SIX KlllE TRAIN WREB Three Passengers An ficial Among Dead. (Associated Press) LEIGHTON BUZZARD, Bil of the train crew were and Scottish Line, sfastest and finest trains oi’ the dead was Sir George Sal jured. ' First Time In Toron ness Man. TORONTO, lvllar. 22—Protection time since 1926 for automobiles Harris Company and of the Willy York Hotel. automobile doors, Mr. Russell stated, for un ada. He believed that the confidence duct might be sold to consumers parts of Canadian automobiles we standardized and produced in lar quantities would manufacturers offered to the American public, aible for this to be achieved, towards thisend. tion of parts, he pointed out. there mart been a. time when- Stetes manufacturers who wished to counts Canadian footer-lee," llld. Iuotovlu Felt Deprodou “Whon inriff we: reduced from cent. on lower-priced can and 1-2 per cont. on hidlcr-prloed. VII held UP tonight by 8131116 miling Flour, Ma Continued on page 3 IN TERRIBl Three of Train Crew Fatally Injured - Prominent Grain Of- Mar. 22—'1‘hree passengers and three‘ kill- ed W481’ When the Rflylil 500i? ary of State Stimson has issued an express 0f _the London Midland order barring a“ holders of mp1,“ °ll° 01' the matie and special cin INDUSTRY row Pill on PAYlN_li__ BASIS Profitable For T h e Canadian automobile manufacturers’ interests by the recent order-in- Councll of the Canadian Govern- ment made it profitable for the first be manufactured in Canada, '1'. A. Home Russell, president of the Massey- Overland Sales Company, declared at the annual banquet of the Cen- edian section of the Society of Au- tomotive liinslneers at the Royal Had the order not been posed. within the next three or four years factories of Canada would have been forced to close their the order it was more profitable for manufacturers to sell in Canada automobiles manufactured in United States then to manufacture in Can- the industry as displayed by the Government by its order, behoovcd Canadian manufacturers to stand- ardize their parts so that their pro- ss low c. price as possible. Only when able to offer can: to the Canadian public at prices as low as they were o- loaded. He believed it was pos- and urged the engineers present to co- rfmpetus 1n the imn and steel lu- dustzies would be occasioned and employment erected in the fabrica- "rrom i938 until o month ago was not mac wofiinblo for United obtaintbeoanadlnnmcrkettosbin innnnufectirrcdcernrothor than psrcontuponaliccrstom per 1m. erowine vevullrlty of automo- biles resulted in no Canadian fac- Ii E K d U. S. Di g.. (British United Press) WASHINGTON. Mar. fez-Secret- passports from 1n vsltlng Soviet Russia. This order, the world, left the mils near here stage DepM-gmeny, 011M315 explain. and piled up along the track. One ed 10,1535 was sent out a mum}, ago t‘ $0 dllllomatic and consular officers mar-ill. 875111 9x135". Who W85 V169" throughout the world. The effect of chairman or the allied wheat pur- the new yggulaflon w“; be to keep chasing commission in 1915 and 1016. The enslneelzthe firemen and a din- Soviet State, unless they are trav- lng car steward were killed and nine eling on the Qfdlngyy passpofts 15. other passengers were. seriously in- sued (,0 private ciflzens_ all American officials out of the Chairmen W. E. Borah, of the Senate Foreign Relations C t. tee. when informed of the order, de- clded to visit the‘ State Department tomorrow and make a thorough in- quiry into the reasons’ behind it. The Senator Long hBs been an advocate of Russian recognition. Reports were current that Stimson issued the or- der at President Hoover's request, but State Department officials said they had no reason to believe this was true. State Department officials said the order marked no change in P0116)’, but only reduced to writing a policy which has been practiced t0 Since Says for some years. The State Depart- We“ Known Busi. ment has never approved of Ameri- cans coins into the Soviet store with. official passports, they said, although it has been permitted sev- eral times as a. matter of conven- fence. The idea that Mr. Hoover and his Secretary of State do not see eye to eye on the Soviet problem, was stunulated recently ‘when the white voluntarily announced that a Russian study Stimson planned old not presage any change in Ameri- ca's recognition policy. Observers find no reason to believe that Stim- son advocates recognition, but the fact that he proposed a thorough inquiry into Russian conditions was interpreted by some to mean that he might recommend restoration of diplomatic relations, if his study in- dicated. the necessity or auzlr action. The White House made it plain lt did not went recognition even to be considered. of to 5. til in N.B. Board Feels Out Eng. Market ForN. B. Potatoes at rc ge be ST. JOHN. March 21—New markets for New Brunswick potatoes has been one of the subjects engaging the at- tention of the Saint John Board of Trade and to this end letters have been cent to Chambers of Commerce in Greet Britain. A list of dealers in potatoes at Manchester has just been received by the Board and Mters were sent to a. number of those call- ing attention lo the excellen of the provincial potato and asking what the possibilities for trade are. ‘Hus action was taken owing lo the uncertoinlty of being able to keep the Oiben market and in an effort to make new connections for New Brunswick growers. he It to p,‘ h, _ (fbnldisn Prue) (IASGOW. Scotland. March ' 81—'l‘wo hundred passengers were hailed lately on the little Gum- braelolandintborlrthofclyde today after the Canadian Paell- tc liner Montclnrc, inward bound for Greenock, was grounded on a hidden roof on the northwest- ern side of the Island today in 2'1 in Are Barred From Entering Russia Secretary Of State Stimson Has Issued Orders To All Officials Throughout The World. plormats his: liSSllllEll m sown WALES tliil usimcr Record Vote Taken To Continue W 0 r k — Miners’ Sec’y Satis- fied As Result Of Vote. (Associated Press) CARDIFF‘, Wales, March 21.- Peace was assured today in the coal mining district of South Wales by a decision of a conference of miners delegates to continue work under (the recent arbitration award, which rc- duced wages fourteen cents a. day. Several delegates urged that the miners lay down their tools, but on a record vote 7B7 voted to continue work and only 747 afllilllfil- $110115 will now be made to obtain minimum wage legislation for miners. Expressing satisfaction at the rc- sult of the vclo, Thomas Richards, the miners secretary, said he hoped both Parliament and the country generally would appreciate that it was cruel to expect the miners to con- tinue work for any length of time under present conditions. He said the award was unfair and income instances silly. Deputy Minister Of The Interior Is Appointed (Special to the Gulrdiln) UITAWA, Ont, March ill-H. H. Rowatt hm been appointed DGPMY Minister oi’ Interior. Announcement that the Order in Council making m; appointment had been aimed- was made Wdlly by Pmml" R- 3' Bennett. w, w, Cory for many years Deputy Minister of the apartment “fired game time ago. The new DBPlIi/Y M111- isber has been in the Department for g/bgut 4a years having entered the service in 1887. He has a. very W149 knowledge of ‘the mines branch in which he has been serving for over 3o years. The Government relim on his special qualifications in arriving at the final details in connection with the restoration of the natural resources to the Prairie Provinces. Flor this reason the Government re- oently extended his time or service. It was felt however by the Govem- merit that the long and distinguished service of Mr. Rowatt was entitled to special recolniticn- Swept From _ Submarine (Canadian Prue) mew roux, N. Y., Mar. 22--The navy base in Brooklyn was informed today Williard I. Grimmer, quarter- mes‘ of Sir Hubert Wilkins‘ polar submarine Nautilus, was swept over- board and drowned while the sub- marine was off Swinburne Island in the lower boy on its way to the navy yard from Claymont, Del, this af- ternoon. The submarine passed quar- n Iona fog. Yellow Fever CONTRACTED BY CANADIAN DOCTOR Word has been received that Dr. Wray Lloyd, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. W- Lloyd, Toronto, has fallen lll with yellow fever while experiment- ing in the Roekfeller Institute in New York. Dr. Lloyd is a. rlduste of St. Thomas schools and Univer- sity of Western Ontario ‘Medical school, and was with the Banting pg. search institute at Toronto a year ago to pursue sineilar work with the Rockefeller federation. Drlrloyd is understood to have been engaged in malltffllllflllflllg with mice subjected to the dread yellow fever. l-le is now under the care of Dr. Berry, a specialist, in a New York he will recover, and ufterwnrdl be- come immune to further attacks. CostofC.1V.B‘r-Zrrech' Line Construction Tabled In House OTTAWA, Ont, March 21—All thl branch lines of the Canadian New tlonal Railways authorized for con- struction in 1927 were completed by the end of 1930, according to a. re- turn tabled in the House of Com- mons by Hon. R. J. Manicn. Minis- ter of Railways, today. Last year $822,360.97 was spent to finish tho work, making a total spent on the 14 branches authorized of $18,127,- 760.03. Construction is proceeding on the branch lines to which Parliament gave authorization in 1930. Seventeen of these accounted for an expendi- ture of’ $13.232.7l8.96 last year. For the current year the work will cost an estimated figure of $3,750,000. Jhe Weather, Etc. rinLr"(<?Bel>~ f: EARLY ‘f0 RlSE AND Your. Hm Wu NEVER Fen. dilate fines ifs r e l‘. ‘TORONTO, Out, Mar. l.l— Plaster- ly winds, increasing to strong or gales on coast u’. nirhl. iulr at first, probably followed by min. TEMPERATURES Maximum . . . . ............... 40 Minimum . . . . ......-........ 32 High tide this after-noon at 1 and tomorrow nzoming at 1.55. Sun sets this '0\'L‘llill[; at 6.15 and rises tomorrow morning at 5.58. First quarter moon Friday, March 27, 1.04 p. m. Summerside tide eighteen minutes later than Charlottetown. Lntine with its flag at half mast. hospital, where it is expected that l