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14 Ships Sail In Defiance Of Strike Great Lakes Companies Act After Negotiations Collapse TORONTO, April 18. CP Picket Lues of the Canadian Seamen's Union were broken tonight at Sarnia when two steamships set sail, breaking lor the first tune the tie-up established by the union four days ago. -J The boats sailed from the Lake Huron port after non-union sea men, escorted by police, boarded the Berryton and Mathewston of the Colonial Steamships, Limited. Two Seamen Arrested. There were clashes with the non-union seamen, but police quickly broke up the disturbance.

Two men were arretted and police said charges would be laid against, them Officials of the C.S.U. in Toronto said their picket lines held firm in other ports from the head of the lakes to Quebec City, and that they would appeal to the International Longshoremen's Union, an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor, to refuse to unload cargoes from the boats should they land at United States ports. The C.S.U. is also affiliated with the A. F.

of L. Similar action will be taken to have longshoremen at the head of the lakes refuse to unload the boats if they should arrive there. A third boat at Sarnia, manned by a non-union crew, was expected to sail during the night. Ten of the major Great Lakes steamship companies announced arlier they would start immediate operation of their vessels despite the strike. The anion president, J.

A. outran, said that tf any Can- adiast boat, manned by a non- anion la a Unlt-! ed States port, "they will have a very difficult time getting out Sailing of the boats from Sarnia ended a tense day in the strike which saw one man arrested in Toronto and warrants issued for nine others. Robert Schumaker, of Midland, was arrested after CapL Angus Bruce, of the Upper Lakes and St. Lawrence Company, told police that Schumaker and nine others boarded a tanker in Toronto harbor and attempted to take off two Conferences Fafl. Steamship companies took action to break the four-day strike immediately after negotiation conferences in Toronto ended with both sides announcing that a peaceful settlement seemed Impassible.

A Federal negotiator, M. S. Campbell, of the Department of met steamship and union officials at Toronto in a final attempt to end the strike. Both sides seemed close to agreement, for both had modified their positions, but neither side accepted the new otters. The parley snagged on the inability of the companies and the union to compromise their proposals.

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UPi Stories of night lashings that stripped the flesh from bared backs piled up today at the trial of Henry Cawthorn, red-haired filling station keeper charged with 10 floggings. First to Identify Cawthorn, on Ka Klox Klan roll at suburban East Point, as a flogger was Levi Conkle, 29-year-old met-, al worker of Hapeville, another suburb. Conkle testified at the Superior Court trial that a night riding band lashed him and his 50-year-old father last September 15, telling them they bad been drinking too much. Other witnesses told of having their clothes stripped off by night riders and their hands and feet held while a barbarously-wielded lash dug into the bare flesh. in wages with one additional man on each ship while the companies stood firm by their last proposal for a $7.50 a month increase with all additional points of dispute placed before a federal concili ation board.

The companies made a radical departure In labor- negotiations by agreeing In advance to accept the conciliation board's decialon but this eon-cession failed to prevent collapse of negotiations. It Is believed the first time In Canadian labor history that advance acceptance has been agreed upon. FUNERAL OF MRS. GAUTB2ER, Private service for Mrs. Louis Cauthier, the former Parmelia La- porta de St.

George, mother of several talented, musicians, was held in the chapel of Hulse and Playfair. Limited, 315 McLeod street, Thursday afternoon. Service was conducted by Rev. T. S.

MiUiken. Chief mourners and survivors. besides her husband, were five daughters, Juliette, of Ottawa; Eva, or New York City; Mrs. Carl C. Lund, Ottawa; Mrs.

J. Mar-gueirat, Ottawa, and Claire, New York City; two sons, Lyons, of Montreal, and Robert, of Ottawa; and 10 grandchildren. Among the floral tributes was one from the Association of Canadian Clubs. W. Herman William Slack, life-long resident of Dunrobin and active member of St.

Mary's Anglican Church, The Rivers, Thursday at a local hospital following an illness of six months' duration. Ha was in his 43rd year. Born at Dunrobin, Ont, he was the son of the late Henry Slack and the former Maria Neeley. Educated in the place of his birth, he later farmed there until his death. He was unmarried.

For a number of years he was rector's warden of St. Mary's Church and was actively engaged in the affairs of the parish. Chief mourners and survivors are a brother, Arthur Slack, Dunrobin, and five sisters, Misies Anna, Jessie, Edith and Sady Slack, all of Ottawa, and Mrs. Justin Davis, of Woodlawn. The funeral service will be held at the Radmore Stewart Funeral Home, 1323 Wellington street, Saturday at 2.30 to the vault at South March cemetery.

Church service and interment will be at The Rivers at a time to be announced. CLOSED TO HEAVY TRAFFIC MONTREAL, April 18. The Provincial Highways Department announced today that No. 2 highway, from nearby Ste. Anne de Bellevue to the Ontario border, will be closed at midnight tonight to heavy traffic.

PURE WHITE "MUMP jff of Lashings From Backs Black-hooded lashers came "damn nigh" killing him, P. S. Toney, husky cotton mill worker and Congress of Industrial Organisations Union member, asserted. He said they lured him from his home on the pretense of being officers, and gave him 25 or more lashes. They told him, he said: "We are going to break up these damn anions." Denial that la rumen wore their hoods and gowns on whipping trips wss made by W.

C. Bishop, former East Point Flogoro (keeper of the inner door). "It would disgrace the he explained. Bishop said he had not helped flog "so awful many Besides Cawthorn, 13 other men are under flogging indictments. Most of them are on East Point Klan rolls.

Singer Popularizing Tipperary' Is Dead ABERDEEN, Scotland. April 18. (CP) Florrie Forde, 63, last of the old style music hall singers, who introduced a song 23 years ago that was to become the immortal marching tune of the British soldier, died todsy a few hours after entertaining patients at a naval hospital here. The song was A music hall favorite for 40 years, Florrie sang Tipperary" to enthusiastic audiences in 1913. Within the year it was on the lips of Britain's soldiers the.

world MRS. THOMAS DIMMA. Many friends will learn with regret of the death at a local hosplUl on Thursday of Mrs. Thomas Dimma, of 36 Daly avenue, resident of the Capital for msny years. Born at Walthamstowde, England, Mrs.

Dimma was formerly Winnifred Peck, a daughter of the late Stanley Peck and his wife, Elizabeth i Willis. She came to Canada in 1911 and was married in 1924 to Thomas Dimma, now a retired Post Office She attended Knox Church. Surviving are her husband, one son, Roy Dimma, and three daughters, the -Misses Winnifred, Evelyn and Viola Dimma, all at home, and one sister, Miss Marjorie Peck, of the staff of the Canadian Bank Note Company Limited. The funeral service will be conducted at the parlors of the Whelan Funeral Home, 513 Cooper street, at 2.30 pm. on Saturday by Rev.

Dr. Robert Johnston and burial will be In Pinecrest cemetery. MISS GEORGETTE DUFOUR. ST. ALEXANDRE DE KAMOU-RASKA, April 18 (Special) Relatives and many family friends were present at the funeral of Miss Georgette Dufour, held at the parish church, with interment at St.

Alexandre ceme-try, A prominent member of Equipment and Supply Branch of the Post Office Department at Ottawa, Miss Dufour! death occurred at St Mary's Hospital, Rochester, Minnesota, following a brief illness. Rev, Arthur Bllodeau, parish priest of St Alexandre, received the body and celebrated solemn requiem high mass, assisted by Rev. Edmond Pelletier and Rev. Napoleon Dumont, and the full choir of the church was in attendance. Chief mourners were Miss Dufour'i parents, Mr.

and Mrs, Joseph Dufour, and five brothers. Ernest, of Hull, Georges, Edgar, Regent and Lucien; and a brother-in-law, Charles Nadeau. The Post Office Department at Ottawa was represented at the service by William Hearty, and Miss. Florence Castonguay, and among other out-of-town mourners were Miss Germalne Charron, of Ottawa; Miss M. St.

Pierre, of Sherbrooke; Miss Cecils Lef ort, of Hull; Mri. J. Slrois, of. Levis Mr. and Mrs.

Durocher, of Quebec and others. Among the numerous floral and spiritual offerings received were those from: Executive members of the Civil Service Association of Ottawa; St. John Ambulance Brigade, Ottawa; Equipment and Supply Social Athletic Association, Ottawa; and many others from Ottawa, Hull, and St. Alexandre. THE OTTAWA JOURNAL FRIDAY.

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Injuries mounted from 513 to 855, damage from $99,040 to $156,701, continuing the general upward trend of accident statistics in January. SPRING SOWING BEGINS. LETHBRTDGE, Alta, April 18. More South Alberta farmers started Spring operations today as a stiff chinook continued to dry fields. In some areas land has dried sufficiently and drills were operating In scattered areas.

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Dicks Saturday Afternoon The funeral of William Dicks, retired district chief of the Ottawa Fire Department, who died suddenly at Ottawa Civic Hospital on Thursday, will be held on Saturday afternoon at 2.30 o'clock. The service will be conducted at his late residence, 189 Fourth avenue, by Rev. Charles Donald, of Southmlnster United Church, and burial will be in Beechwood cemetery." Former District Chief Dicks retired on January 1, 1939. He was to have left the hospital on Thursday afternoon as, his condition seemed improved after a weeks sojourn. His death came suddenly following dinner and will come as a shock to a wide circle of friends.

Joining the Fire Department in August, 1909, Mr. Dicks was promoted lieutenant in January, 1914, of No. 4 station. When he was named captain on July 1, 1922, be was placed in charge of No. 10 station in Ottawa South.

He was made a district chief by the late Fire Chief Samuel Black-ler on May 16, 1932, and he was assigned as drill instructor. Prior to his service with the Fire Department he served in the South African War and during the Great War he acted as a training instruc tor in Ottawa. Born in Ottawa he was a son of the late Thomas J. Dicks and his wife, Ssrah Mooring. He attended Southmlnster United Church, was a former treasurer of the South African War Veterans' Association and a life member of the Masonic Order, AT.

and AJd. He was keenly interested in sports and was a strong supporter of the local rugby and baseball Mr. Dicks was twice married, his first wife, Mary Jane Dicks, pre deceasing him in 1933. Surviving are his second- wife, the former Ethel May Carleton; his step-mother, Mrs. Thomas J.

Dicks, of Ottawa; a son, Ebert Nelson Dicks, of the Fire De partment; three brothers, Hudson, of Toronto; Harry, of Detroit, and Flying Officer Walter Dicks, of the RCAI, stationed at Aldershot, and one sister, Mrs. Sparks, wife, of Rev. Charles Sparks, of Woodstock, Ont Limited, Sparks St Fire Chief's Tribute To Former Drillmaster Speaking to The Journal of the death Thursday of W. I. Dicks, former district chief and drill-master, Chief J.

J. O'Kelly, of the Ottawa Fire Department, said; "I am deeply grieved to hear of his passing. We served together for many years and I wss always able to count him as one of my most loyal pais- and friends. Up to the date tits retirement, he and I served the department for about the same length of time, spending many, years together in close touch with each other. He always possessed a loyal and keen devotion to duty and carried out his duties in the best interests of his superiors and the citizens of the City of Ottawa.

"To his widow and relatives I extend my most sincere sympathy." Many at Funeral Of Mrs. Harold Snider Rev. Cecil Steen conducted the service for Mrs. H. Harold Snider, who died Tuesday, held in the chapel of Hulse and Playfair.

Llm ited. 313 McLeod street, Thursday afternoon. Interment was made in Pinecrest cemetery. Chief mourners and survivors, besides her husband, were two daughters, Mrs. Albert Walder and Miss Ivy V.

Snider, both of Ottawa; two sisters, Mrs. SlmlnSon, of Montreal, and Mrs. D. McRae. of Sawyerville, and three sisters and five brothers in Liver pool, England.

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