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6 VOL. CUV. No. 313 THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31.

1927. rorcement of the curfew law on Spotlon, R. Oliver fend C. S. Jones, Gait.

Major-Gen. MaeBrien addressed the meeting on the possibilities of aerial against George T. and Agstha Brown, Miami Beach, Florida L'efendant's bought the lhiand near Alexandria Bz" Part of the puronase price was JOHN HARYEY NOW HAS: NO ILLUSIONS ON FOREIGN LEGION LONDON GETTING ANXIOUS ABOUT FOOD SUPPLIES PRIDE OF DETROIT. MADE TWO EFFORTS TO HOP-OFF IN VAIN PROVINCE WENT AHEAD FAST IN PRESENT YEAR depth. This is but a small proportion of the star's diameter, which Is 200,000,000 miles.

The way appeals to be open to determining the ex-' tent of the atmospheres of many other stars. Professor Harlow Shapley, of Harvard, and Severn 1 of his associates tave papers on the work done in the atudy ot stellar spectra. Or. Delury, of Ottawa, showed that from the records of the Hudson Bay Company the number of skins of rabbits sent in from the wilds in thb north of Canada was on the uverage much larger when the sun spots were fewer than in years when they were numerous. Appointments Published Ottawa, December 30.

Recognition of the appointment of O. N. Mann, as vice-consul of Sweden at Sydney and North Sydney, N.S., by the Governor-General is announced in the current iseue of the Canada Gazette. The appointment of S. A.

Belovsky as American vice-consul at Vancouver is similarly published. Newspaper Man Left $40,950 Toronto, December 30. Application for probate of tue will of the late James F. Verner, former New York and Toronto newspaper man, and lately associated with a local brokerage firm, was made today. The estate totals $40,950, and Mrs.

Verner is named as sole beneficiary and executrix of the will. HARROWING TALE BY SOVIET CONSUL (Continued from Page One) held In their berths while the coast traffic has been totally suspended. Railway communications likewise are suffering heavy delay. 40 FROZEN TO DEATH Gypsy Encampment in Bielitz Forest Suffers Vienna, December 30. A despatch to the Vienna Stunde states that forty persons were found frozen to death in a gypsy encampiit in the forest of Bielitz.

The paper says that. 30 other gypsies were taken to hospitals suffering from the effects of the bitterly, cold weather. Storm Wrecked Church Naples, December 30. One chil.1 was killed and the mother superior of the orr.hanage at Barra was seriously Injured today when the wall of the church there collapsed durins Mass thU morning. Prompt aid by firemen, militia and police resulteJ in the rescue of the remaining orphans.

The church has been strongly by the storm which has prevailed here for the past few days. Blizzards in Japan Tokyo, December 30. Blizzards, heavv snowfall and temneatiinim seas have done great damage In northwest Japan. Railroad traffic today was tied up. Many accidents were reported and I' was feared that there had been considerable loss of life.

KIDNAPPER'S TRAIL LEADS TO SALINAS Young Man Arrested With Auto Stolen by McClelland Salinas, December 30. The hunt for Ernest Arthur McClelland, paroled convict and alleged kidnapper of 11-year-old Evelyn Smith, of Oakland, extended from Northern California to the Mexican border today as police here picked up a fresh clue as to his whereabouts. Jack Volner, 20, was arrested here last night when found standing beside the "borrowed" automobile which McClelland presumably used, to kidnap the girl from Oakland on Christmas day. Volner, after vigorous questioning, said he had obtained the automobile from McClelland in Ventura Wednesday night, and had agreed to meet McClelland there later. Volner said he and McClelland were both penniless, and that he had offered to take the stolen automobile, drive it to the home of an uncle at Biggs, and obtain funds for both of them.

The Smith girl was found Wednesday in the home of an. acquaintance of McClelland at Redlar.ds, near Los Angeles. She told the police her abductor had left htrr there after attempting to attack her. CLOCKS RUN SLOWER IF MOON IN WEST Substance of One of Many Reports Given to Astronomical Association (Special to The Gazette), New Haven, December 30. A wide range of scientific reports today to the annual convention of the American Astronomical Association, being held at Yale University, In- eluded a classification of the spectra of 223,000 stars, and declarations that the atmosphere of heavy stars in more extensive and contains much mora material than the sun, that clocks run slower when the moon Is in the western part of the sky and that the Star "of licthlehem was pot the recently observed comet.

Prof. II. N. Kusscll, of Princeton, said that the star which the Wise Men saw in the east might have been ny one of several natural astronomical phenomena a new star, a comet, or perhaps even a coniectlon of the planets and that one could not hope to Identify it. Reporting on study of" the running of clocks, Dr.

Kobert R. Morgan, of the Navnl Observatory In Washington, said that when the moon Is In the western part of the sky one. half of tho day is .005 seconds of time longer than the other hnlf. Papers given by Professor W. S.

Adums, of Modnt Wilson, and Professor Russell, of Princeton, advance the conclusion that the atmospheres of giant red tafs like Retelgeuue column vory muin more material over a ty'ire mile of the star's sur- paid, defendants giving a bomi that the balance would be paid October la 1927. As security a mortgage on Warners Island and the buildings thereon was given. It is now asked that the island and buildings b- sold. The property is one of the best in the rlv'i and was once owned by H. 11.

Wainer of patent fame. SNATCHED MAIL BAGS Toronto Youth in Moose Jaw Admits Theft After Capture Moose Jaw, December 30. Eniitte Kelly, a 16-year-old youth who recently came here from 'Toronto, is held in jail tonight following his arrest on charges of stealing four bim of mail from the local Canadian Pacific Railway depot. The bugs were recovered in a room occupied by Kelly at a local hotel. As far as can be ascertained the contents, mdstly Christmas parcels, are intact." The thefts were committed Wednesday and Thursday night, and, according to the police, Kelly has confessed to the robberies.

He will appear in court tomorrow morning. The mall bags were stolen from station trucks. It Is thought young Kelly hid in the darkness of the platform and watched his chance to make off with the booty. Half an hour after postal authorities had complained of the theft3, Kelly was arrested. LINER, 2 PIERS, 8 BARGES AND 2 PLANTS BURNED (Continued'from Page One) the alarm had been sent In and the flames burned her mooring ropes.

She drifted out into the slip between the -Scaling company and the Fletcher piers. A Swedish watchman whose name was nat obtained, Captain Smith and Captain Chadwick were below. When the veteran captain came on deck, his ship was drifting sluggishly out toward the river and he yelled for help. John Vlaser, of Secauuu. the foreman of the Fletcher dock crew, was the man who led the rescue.

With four of his men, he dropped a raft from the still un-destroyed side of the Fletcher pier, and shoved off into the slip. Sculling with fcita of board, Vissor- and hla men swung their unwieldy craft alongside the Seneca, and held her there while Captain Smith chucked a rope down to the bobbing raft. The skeleton crew of the liner came down (he side and Visser ipaddled them to safety. The Seneca was being re-conditioned for the Miami run, and Captain Smith, his ancient nerves as strong as ever after his rescue, watched her burn from shore, bemoaning the two Palm Beach suits ho had bought for the southern trip. They were somewhere in the inferno aboard his command, and they worried him even more than the explosions that were shaking the craft to pieces.

"Those are just my little cans of keroaene" he-explained the blasts. INCIDENT. One of the sensational Incidents of the fire was the rescue of the India Arrow. When the fire started, the Standard Oil boat was high and dry on floats ready to be brought into dry dock. The workmen let her down with a rush when they saw the flash of the pier below her, and she was dragged out of the slip undamaged.

The barges that lay between the piers helped to carry the flames from the scaling company's plant to the Fletcher dock for they lay In the slip between the two, and the fire leaped tr6m ship to ship. 'Barges 3 and 4, steam barge 2, and derrick' barge 2, of the Fletcher Company were four of those destroyed. The others were moored at the Scaling company's When the fire reached the Fletcher pier and that too went up In a tornado of flames and smoke the spectacle brought half Hoboken's water front to the scene. Commissioner of Public Safety Mc-Feelcy came down from police head quarters and himself directed the I ordering of safety lines along Hud- I son street. On the river the jam was as bad as it was ashore.

The hurrying flre- boata and the jam of tugs steam ing out from the menaced piers tan gled harbor traffic and forced the Hoboken ferries to change their courses, Commuters strained over the bulwarks to catch a glimpse of the binning Ser.eca and the fire and smoke could be seen across the river from Twenty-Third street piers in Manhattan. Urge Clinic for Winnipeg Winnipig, December 30. Establishment cf a cancer clinic at one of the hospitals in Winnipeg to which people In all parts of the province i-ould be referred for tree examination and advice when eusj lous symptoms of the disease le-tected, was urged by Dr. N. J.

Maclean before today's session of the Provincial Health Nursea' Convention. The establishment of such a clinic, Maclean would be the means of saving- many live. O. A. Disher Is Promoted Ottawa, December 30.

G. A. Disher, business manager of Ihn Citizen, has been promoted to on executive position with the Soutlmm Publishing Co. and the Houthjm Preys', of Montreal, effective Jan uary 1. TRY A 26 ox.

bottla New Year's piornlng was given fto- "There will he no general order issued, because the iaw has set the closing time at a.m. As to the enforcement of the curfew law, that is up to the police on duty." It was learned at headquarters, However, mat plainclothes policemen Will Visit the vnrtnila ntliuratu nwH restaurants throughout the evening and early morning. These officers will make no raids, but when liquor la wuna tney will notify the federal prohibition authorities. On the other hand, Prohibition Administrator Maurice Campbell ha announrprl that-ho iiHll prohibition law to the best of his uoiury. tils spectacular gesture in raiding the Chez Helen Morgan early today is taken as an indication that he Intends to have his men stationed in various night life centres tomorrow night, with Instructions to take similar actions where liquor.

law violations may be found. The New Year celebration will be carried into tho air at midnight tomorrow, night, when Clarence Cham-berlin, who flew to Germuny with Charles A. Levlne, said he would fly over parts or Manhattan in the Martine-Bellanca plane recently completed for an endurance flight. A. R.

M.artlne, owner of the plane, has his headquarters iri the McAlpln Hotel. As the New Year is rung in, Cham-berlin expects to be circling the McAlpln with is plane, uglow with electric lights. From hotels and similar places of New Year's Eve entertainment came today reports that reservations of tables indicated a record-breaking celebration and also that prospective celebrators seemed to have ceased to think of expense and were thinking merely or the best place to spend the hours between midnight and the next stop. TORY PREDICTS PROSPEROUS YEAR of Nova Scotia Sends Out New Year's Message Halifax, N.S., December an. Lieutenant-Governor J.

C. Tory today gave out a New Year's message In which he listed a number of reasons why he believed the people of Nova Scotia should look forward to a prosperous New Year. Among them were the following: "The favorable report of the Duncan Commission. "The sympathetic attitude of other parts or Canada, toward the Mari times. "The practical application of the recommendations of the Duncan Commission by the Federal Government.

"The quickened Interest of the two great railway systems in Nova Scotia affairs. move to stimulate tourist trade and to accommodate visitors, ana tne spirit ot courage and buoyancy which permeates to a very con siderable' extent the business inter. ests of tre country." BOYS' PARLIAMENT PROROGUES TODAY Will Sell Bonds to Meet Ex-penses of Tuxis and Trail Ranger Work Toronto, December 30. A decision to take it upon themselves to ralso by the sale of bonds 13,000 with which to carry on a provincial-wide tuxis and trial ranger work for next year; featured the fourth session of the seventh Ontario Older Boyg' Parliament, held in Convocation Hall here today. Today's session dealt mainly with the Finance Bill, while ceveral other important matters were also passed ofr, At luncheon members of the Parliament were entertained by the Toronto Itotary Club "at Its annual father and son banquet.

At tomorrow's short session a number of minor details will he passed upon and then Parliament will prorogue. WAS "SHEER MADNESS" Lilli Dillentz' Comment on Mrs. Grayson's Venture (Special Cable to the New York Tlmei ond Montreal Gazette Paris. Dec. 30.

Lilll Dillentz. Aus-trian octrees and avlatrix who hat been doing some flying at Villa Coub. lay preliminary sailing- to America from where she hopes to return by plune, accompanied by ivweJl-known American frier ome time in the spring, paused yesterday to characterize the ill-fated enterprise of Mrs. Grayson as "sheer madnese" and to that, enld she herself would never take off until everything was sure. "Whon a woman cngag! in a purely sporting event of -this nature It Is up to her, especially if a he wish women as a whole km serlomiy, take t-voey piooauiion and Uave pp.

thing iieceiii to ensure the planea safHly undone. 1 have my own plane and won't start until everything ready," xlie added. A.t the same tlmo Mllr. Dlllnnti emi.liaslatrl the fact that she won't five up the fUghl just l-eciuz-n of oiio more disaster. Hlie went up -tod''- with the well-known stunt Ilhr, Forval, who, for her benefit, rut hiM plane tMrouuh some of Its n.iw 'thrill.

ug stunts. Building Permits Higher lii'llevlile, December 10. Building permits Issued for the year 1927 In this city are valued at 1070,010, compared with $301,610 but This year, lie permits wer Issued, compared with Ioh last yenr. The new collegiate Institute being (rented here plays a prominent part In -this year's Increase, as It Is estimated that It will cost Will Receive on New Year'i (Special to The Gazette.) Quebec, Incumber 80. 1 i 1m Honor Dm Lieutenant-Governor of the Pro-vlnee, Hon, Narelsae Perodenij, will receive at the Parliament Pulldlnits Muniliiy, on the occasion of the New Sfeur.

premier Tajscherenu and onverul other members 'of the Cab-llmt will iileo be present, navigation, in which he pointed out that Canada was far behind other nations In aviation. He stressed the need of organized air routes, the de velopment of civil, commercial and defensive aviation. CHRISTMAS AT SEA Passengers Spend Jolly Day on Antonia in Mid-Atlantic Halifax, December 30. The Cun ard liner Antonia, Capt. P.

A. Mur chie, arrived today, after a good pas sage from Southampton via Cher bourg, to land 119 passengers who had spent Christmas in mid-Atlantic. Included among the passeupers were sir John Martif-Harvey, Lady Mar- tln-Harvry and their company of English dramatic artists who will commence a fifty week tour of Can-Jncluded among the passengers were declared that their Christmas In mid-Atlantic was as Jolly 'as any they had ever experienced, apart from the fact that they were separated from their families in many cases. A Christmas tree and a "Santa Claus" who distributed gifts to every passenger was a feature of the Christ, mas entertainment, G0NFFfflCETAf6 ON WORLD MISSIONS Many Prominent Churchmen Will Address the Gathering at Various Functions Toronto, December 20. Announcement has been made that arrangements have been completed for a world missions conference to be held in St.

Catharines, from January 6 to 9, under the auspices of all thj churches in that city and surrounding district, in co-operation with the mission boards of the various communions. A missionary field day will beheld on January 8, when visiting missionary speakers will occupy all the pulpits of the city. The conference will open on January 6 with a mass On January 7 there will be a mens' missionary banquet. Anions the prominent churchmen who will speak at the various functions are: Rev. Oanon S.

GoUlJ, Secretary of the Missionary Society of the Churt-r of England in Canada-Rev. Murdoch Mackenzie, of China; Rev. Dr. H. E.

Secretary for Baptist Foreign Missions; Dr. J. M. Waters, of India; Bishop Stringer, of the Yukon; Archbishop Fleming, of the Arctic; Dr. A.

H. Armstrong, Secretary for United Church Foreign Rev. Dr. W. A.

Cameron, Associate Secretary for Presbyterian Missions, and a number of other well-known missionaries from and China. DESTROYERS BACK FROM DAWS SEARCH Wide Area Covered in Neighborhood of Sable Island Without Result Boston, December 30. After, a fruitless search of the waters about Sable Island' for the missing amphibian plana Dawn, the navy destroyer Sturtevant, Commander R. R. Stewart, returned to the Boston Navy Yard tonight.

The -Mahan which also took part in the search, will arrive tomorrow, having been forced to low speed on the return trip by shortage of fuel. The navy search, carried on in co-operation with the coastguard destroyers Shaw, 1 Monaghan and Downes, covered the course from Cape Ccd to Sabld Island, and an area about the island comprising a circle of 70 miles radius. The i coastguard vessels also covered a square of 110 miles south of this circle. The searching area was defined by a radio rrtessago which the Sable Island 'station picked up Sunday night, presumably from the emergency sot of the Dawn. As that set had a sending radius of 50 I tiles this placed the plane at the time within a 50 mile circle of the station.

Commander Stewart, directing the search, added an additional 20 miles for the southward drift with wind and current. The fact that Intensive search failed to reveal trace of the Dawn, coupled with the fact that transatlantic steamer lanes cross south of Sable Island, led to the belief that If the plane had actually been In that vicinity on Sunday night, she had gone down before the navy and coastguard vessols arrived. Commander Stewart and other officers of the expedition expressed the? opinion that the prevailing rough seaa in tilt North Atlantic weuld soon have wrecked the amphibian. WILL EXCEED MILLION Tear's Fire Losses at Quebec Reach Big Figure (Special to The Qoxet.te.) Quebec, December 80. In the course of the year 1927.

damage caused by fire in the olty 'of Quebec, apart from the losses suffered at, the Hospice St. Churles, and the St. Jeaji llerchman's Convent, reached (289,484. It Is estimated that the two' last fires, which visited local religious institutions Increased the losses by over 1700,000. This means that the total losses for the year will exceed 11,000,000.

Due to the fact that up to now, the number of live lost at the Hospice St. Charles ennhot be definitely set, it has been impossible to get the doath toll but most likely It will reach between forty to fifty. Chamber Approves Bill Mexico City, December JO. The Chamber of Deputies today up-proved the Mil sponsored by Prel. dent C'a lii's authorizing' the appointment of a "permanent national economic" council," which will he composed of repreivntntlVM nf labor, Rovmmint employer ynd business Itii'n to study social iiiul aomimln problems of the country and nuikn recommendations from time to time.

Load Still Too Heavy, But Xandings Made Without Dumping Oil MACHINE WELL HANDLED Plane Carried Weight of 5,935 Pounds for Three Miles in Air May Be Record By EDWARD F. CHI (Who, with S. Brook, is Seeking the World's Endurance- liecord) (Copyright, 1927, by the New York Times Company) Daytona Beach, December 30. Once more the Pride of Detroit waits on the runway for the taker off at dawn from Daytona Beach. Twice today we took the ship down the beach after the attempt yesterday.

Both times today we got her into the air and both times we were forced back to the sand. But we are not downhearted, for in spite of our failure to get away, our 220-horse-power Wright Whirlwind motor and Stinson-Detroiter monoplane did into the air for nearly three miles 5,935 pounds without danger and this feat we believe is a and a 220-horsepower motor. Added to this achievement of the Pride of Detroit, my faith in Billy Brock's ability as a flier mounts daily, for he twice landed our ship with the full load of gasoline and oil. This is one of the most critical moments in the take-off. The.

slightest miscalculation and the Pride of Detroit would have been no more. Urook landings were as nearjy perfect as it is possible to make them. The great danger in such a landing place is that the airplane may alight for a fraction of a second on only one wheel. This not only throws the entire weight on the one wheel, but whips the ship into a ground loop; almost at once the thrown on its Due to -Billy Brock's exceptional skill, he was able to bring the Pride" of Detroit down In two three-point landings, touching both wheels and the tail skid instantaneously. We were tearing down the sand at seventy-five miles an hour.

The tail had automatically taken the correct flying position and our Wright Whirlwind was turning up 1,750 K. when almost as soon as the ship left the ground the motor began to splutter and lose revolutions with a corresponding loss of power. Hilly shouted to me "Don't dump the gas. I think I can land her with the Through my mind flashed the picture of other fliers who have had to come down under similar circumstances, and have to spill their fuel. In two other cases the pilots had lost their lives because at the last moment they had failed to throw away me uujueu.

my uaim iwutwii- ed to turn the handle, but we were back the earth without a bump. Upon examination we decided to 6ain the carburetor to release any accumulated water that might have lodged there from the and moisture, and try again. Once more we Were forced to the beach, and for the second time wa landed without re leasing the gasoline load. Thus, I believe that Broek broke all known records for landing a fully-loaded Tiane without either dumping or crashing. When we made a thorough check-tip of the plane and motor, we found that the salt air, heavy dew and fine eand had filtered through everything.

Even the smallee magneto wlrea were corroded with wet salt. The faiivt lay not with the Whirlwinds but principally with the spark plugs. Every plug was so covered wHh fine ealt deposits that even the electrodes in the centre, which are covered with porcelain, were rusted, and they pre-lgnited much in the same way that an automobile rattles with a spark knock when pulling tip a hill in high at slow apeed. By the time Doc Klnkade had changed the plugs and tested the motor, the tide had risen and robbed us of the beach. The weather reports for the next 12 hours predict light south which means that we will be given another chance.

With the beach heading due south there are really only one of two favorable air conditions for a safe take-off with such a load. One is with a dead oalm and the other In with a steady wind from the south. Now we know that we took off in a mile and two tenths and wereMn the air in about ninety second. We can do. it again.

INJUNCTION GRANTED Toronto Cigarmakers Cannot Withdraw Funds Toronto, December 80. An injunction was granted today at Os-goode Hall, by Mr. Justice Dogie, in favor ct the Clgarmakers' International Union, restraining local Union No. 27, of Toronto, which is affiliated with the international union, from ithrirawlnir deDoelus totalling 369, and from disposing of or dealing with any other aaautonai money which is the property of the plaintiffs. The injunction will remain In effect until January 4.

The Clgairmakens'' International Union officials allege that the local body neglected to remit lbs share of money necessary for the expense of headquarters at Chicago. It Is claimed by plaintiffs that a special notice to remit $1,900 was to Toronto recently and Ignored. Adolph Uarlepy, third vice-president of the union at Montreal, Is Joined a plaintiff. AVIATION IN CANADA Far' Behind Other Nations, Say Major-Gen. MaeBrien Unit, December 30.

Following a luncheon addressed by Major-Gen. S. II. Mncltrleii, of Ottawa, hero, today, formal steps wei taken towards the organization of a brunch of the Canadian Air League In this city. Wllllnm Phillips was named chairman of the provisional for.unillen, other members being: Weaver and A.

Prirbea, llnapolur; H. Clare and C. Whitney, Preston Mayor MuKuy, W. Donaldson, A. Englishman Who Deserted Complains Bitterly of Treatment Accorded Adventurers SCENES OF BARBARITY Was Struck by Officers While Lying With Hands and tfeet in Chains Released by French Special Cable to the N.Y.

Times and Montreal Gazetted London, December Harvey, deserter from the Foreign Legion, whom France released from prison after Intercession by the British Government, urrlved in London today, bitterly complaining of the treatment accorded to who are induced to serve in the famous French fighting corps. "I have ben kicked while lying down with my hands and feet in chains, and have been struck by officers. I witnessed scenes of barbarity in French prisons which I would have believed incredible," says a copyrighted interview in the Evening Standard. Harvey is here in the care of the British Legion, which plans to clothe him and send him home to in the Welsh coal fields. He Is still vearing the tatters of the Legion uniform which he wore when he tried to desert in Syria with the American, Bennett Doty, who was released by the French at the request of the American Legion.

"I have no Illusions about ithe Foreign Legion as portrayed in 'Beau That is only the beginning of the story," says the interview. "Th Foreign Legion is a fighting machine which fights everywhere that there is fighting in the French desert possessions. Th Legkin suffers all the time. You enter the Legion with the promise of thousands of francs bounty and find It is only 590 francs. The pay is represented as 10 francs a day, but Is 7 francs, month.

"The men of the Legion constantly are trying to desert. There were ilghty-four men in my contingent which sailed for Syria on Christmas, 1925. Tlie ship called at Alexandria where I was confined on a lower deck because I was Kngllsh and Alexandria was under British Influence. "Forty, luckier than deserted at this port. At Jaffa, where ships cannot enter the harbor, five swam ashore.

'In the campaign in Syria the French regular troops get the easiest billets and Foreign Legion gets the hardest fighting. There is real fighting against the They are big, powerful fellows, carrying swords bo tig that it takts two hands to use them. You fight under the deert sun, suffering terrible 'thirst, and are treated like dogs, I being called "the dog Englishman'. I have seen officers use whips on others, but never on me. "The chief reason for not deserting under euch conditions in the fighting zone was the tact that the Bedouins and Druses give no quarter.

Klsewheie the bandits know that the French pay 100 francs for the return of fugitives, dead or alive. "The Legionuires on outposts suffer most. Thece is the heat of the sun in the day and bitter cold at night, bad food, bad water, no money, nothing but threats and brutality Interspersed with fighting a foe that kille its prisoners. Once, when we captured a place where we' had left a half dozen wounded, we found their bodies mutilated. Often when food came by the only way to reach uh hy dropping it from an airplane It was only bully beef.

"When I deserted, after Doty and two Germans, we got within 500 yards of the Palestine frontier only to be chased by bandits and to fall In with Frenoh gendarmerie and be recaptured. Then an officer beat me when I was chained. I was brought to Clalrvaux prison in France, which was just hell. "Only the help of British friends, who provided money, saved me from being sent to rejoin the Legion in northern Africa when released there. If I had gone back you wotild have heard no more of John Harvey." NEW YORK READY FOR CELEBRATIONS Arrival of New Year to Be Observed in Traditional Spirit (Special to The aaielte.) Now York, December 30.

When the New Year arrives upon the elroke of twelve tomorrow night he will find awaiting nlm a madder, merrier welcome than hus cvur been accorded to any of his predecen-ors, If credence can ba given the flood of vnnounuomuni and reports from those who preside over and provide for the gathering places of the welcomers. Many reports Indl. rate that the Infunt 192H miiy be a bit surprised ut the conviviality with which be Will be, greeted In many sections of the Metropolis, and iriuy require the hardihood of a Lindbergh to remain awake and active 'until his welcomnrs elect to retire (or the luy, in spite of curfew and the threat (if piinl 'hiefctit. Hotels, rantaurnnts, nlslit clubs, almoxt without exception, have nn- Nritv Vt.iip and cvun nnnrby road lioijNe and inns nave u'tihigu incir nmuinme to furnish brftttkfuht to many who nre exported to be unwilling to cull It a day even when the curfn law ctostis ninny places if rwvulry at I a.m. Hut Fliould the little visitor And the rrgiiliir night life evnlre not to his liking, he may easily disuovnr nt fnutiy points wldiln tlx- cltys limits i-titei'lalnmrnt ut a fur dlf.

frrelil sort, for churrhns, V.M.CA.'b, Y.W.C.A.'s Mini other bodies era prn. pui'pd to whIcoiiih bis arrival with genuine enthusiasm. Police CurnmlNHlflni'r Wnrrnii's flt'Kl diviiini with reaped to (lie en. (Continued from Page One) er Company has commenced additions to its plant for the installation of a new unit of 45,000 horsepower. One of It? subsidiary companies tiie North sJhoie Power Company, ha completed of the falls on the Batiscan River, and the rapacity of the piant, already horsepower, will wiortly be doubled.

"On the auX Outardes, the Ontario Paper Company is preparing to harness 40,000 Horsepower. "Considerable work has been done on the Gatlneau River. In addition to the construction of a 33,000,000 concrete reservoir, the harnessing of Paugan Falls has practically been completed to run 'six turbines, of 84,000 horsepower each. With the eight units contemplated, this Will provide 2R2.000 horsepower to serve new industries. "The year lt27 also witnessed the harnessing of Chelsea Falls, which are at present furnishing 92,000 horsepower and will shortly provide 170,000 horsepower.

"Harnessing of Farmer's Rapids and Falls has just been completed. At present 72,000 horsepower is being developed; the ultimate capacity will be 120,000 "Two units of 8 son Wh have been added to the Kip- pawa piant. "Bryson, on the Ottawa River, has been furnishing 22.500 horse-power; meanwhile at Anglieres a new plant with a capacity of 20,000 horsepower has been constructed. "To all these developments must be added several important transmission lines, the principal of which are the He Mallgne-Quebec line, with a capacity of 100,000 horse-power; the Chelsea-Paugnn with a ca-paiiity of 120,000 horse-power: anil the Paugan-Quyon line with a ca- pacny oi izu.uuu norse-power. "Thla mairvellous hydro-electrle development constitutes an Inexhaustible source of wealth.

In addl-' tion to the aluminum plant at Ar-vlda, which has developed considerably during the last twelve months and at present employ! 1,400 workers, we owe to it the creation of the' town of Dolbeau and the establishment in our province of. numer ous and powerful Industries, such as the manufacture of artificial silk, recently begun at Drummondville. Th Industrial development with in our province promisee to' be all the more profitable and lafiting elnce it Is taking nlace concurrently with the extensions and improvement of" our agricultural domain. Far from embarrassing agriculture, industry will furnish a market for it both profitable and of easy access. "Our mining regions have revealed wealth surpassing our greatest hopes.

In the last ten months claims have been staked, and work has commenced in several mines of Incalculable value. "During 1927 our population ha maintained those noble traditions which eecure for it the admiration of foreign economists everywhere. "It is, then, with all confidence that we salute the New Year, and it is Incumbent upon us to thank Providence for the benefactions bo generously tendered to our province." darIMIaIdIm" was climax to tricky flight (Continued from' Page One) five minutes early, for he had estimated 'that It would take 8V4 hours to cover the distance over rough and difficult terrain where a landing would have been perilous. At the Golf Club Lindbergh wae welcomed to the colony formally by Governor Sir John Burdon, the Chief Justice, and all the prominent officials of the city. Then the colonial band which had been practising diligently came into Its own and blared out Joyously with the "Star Spangled Banner." When the cheering masses could be quieted, the mayor could be heard reeding his address of welcome.

Deafening cheers roBe again from the crowd. Lindbergh smiled aiul bowed In acknowledgment. He said that he was glad that he had come to British Honduras and laughingly admitted that there were a few in the United States who had never heard of the colony. He added that he had intended to follow a direct route over- the mountains, but that fog had necessitated a detour after striking the coast lino. Otherwise he would have arrived sooner.

His little speech over, Lindbergh was cheered again and, then his mother, Mrs. ttvangellne L. Lindbergh, was cheered and then Col. Lindbergh was cheered all over again. So enthusiastic were the club members that they all insisted on shuklng his hand and it was difficult "for the authorities to get him off the balcony and Into a waiting car for the trip to the city proper.

The parade was led by the colonial band and a long line of motor cars with the flier In the van, J-ove through the streets of the capital. --A huge crowd huge for Belisse, which hue a population of about 14 000 lined the etreeU and rheered Incrmnantly. It was a public holiday, the streets were lavishly decorated and all buslntu was suspended. Tin town wae Lindbergh mad. Eventually he was taken to Govern men Hnutte, where he wa tho of the Uurdons at luncheon.

HEADS BACTERIOLOGISTS Misa Alice Evans, of Washington, Chosen President Rochester, N.V., December 80. Mlns Alice C. Evan of Wnnhlngton, who thret years ar.o contracted Malta fever while currying on bse-terlbh'glcnl experiment, today wae n-imed president ot tho Society of American Uactcrlologlsts. Mis Kvans, who has had several attacks of the fever elnce she was first trickn, ui novr In a Washington hospital. Hhe associated with il.e United Htates Hygienic Lubora-Urle In Washington, The noclety closed Jt 29th annual meeting aftor a threo-day evasion, Warner'i Island Litigation (Special to The Guzette.) Kingston, l)ec 30.

Litlaatlon con-remlng Warners Mand In Kt, Luw-lence riven has bean startfld by lid-tnund H. Uurkt, Huaaall, Ohio, Whole Staff Slaughtered When Canton Recaptured by Chinese Nationalists Hong Kong December 30. A terrible tale uf torroi'ism accompanying the Nationalist recapture of Canton from the Communists was told by Soviet Consul Pokhvalinsky, who was captured on that occasion, when he arrived here today. Receiving newspapermen at the hotel to which police escorted him for protection, Pokhvalinsky" said he went through the "most terrible experience" of his life. "All my staff was killed by the Chinese, who seized all personal property and consulate belongings, including state.

documents. Vice-Con-eul Hassis was killed, as was my secretary, Bayooloff, whose wife and baby are now here. My staff of five or six Chinese servants were also killed." The consul described the ill-treatment suffered when he was bound with his hands behind his back for 24 hours before he was rescued by the German consul. Asked how he escaped when his staff was shot, he explained that the Chinese accused only his staff of participating In the fighting dur-ln the Communist uprising. He has booked passage for Shanghai and Kobe, where he will embark for Vladivostok.

Canadian Railways TIMETABLE CHANGES Important changes Jn train schedules between Montresl-Vaudreull, Montreal-Ottawa, Montrcal-Kouses Point, New-York and Boston, will he made on Sunday, January 8th. Full information In Agents' hands. NOTICE Notice Is hereby given that the Montreal Catholic School Commission will apply to the Quebec Legislature, at its next session, to obtain certain amendments to the laws governing said Commission, and notably the authorization of an additional borrowing power not exceeding six hundred thousand dollars amendment to Article 7 of the Act 11, George Chapter 49, fixing at every five years the taking of the census' of the children of school age, and for other purposes. ATME LaFONTAINE, Attorney for Petitioner. Montreal, December 12, 1927.

MONTREAL WAREHOUSING CO. TO BE SOLD BV AUCTION Ml KI Public Notice 18 hereby given that by and iu virtue of a Judgment of the Superior Court, Hitting at St. Jerome, iu the DUtriet of Terrebonne, rendered the 2cd of April, 1021, In a cause whereiu R. B. MASSOX, of Terrebonne, la Plaintiff, and It.

MAHMON are Defendants, the dale and lleltatlon of Twenty Shares of "Montreal Warehousing has been ordered. The xail shares will be put up to Aiufluii and adjudged to the highest and lnt bidder, the 4th day of at Kleven o'clock In the forenoon. In the OITloe of G. N. Mnnrel, 18 St.

I'raetltloner named by the Court. Terms CaHh. BKAITHAMP A DKS.TARDINS. 13 St. Jamea Street.

Attorneys for It. B. MASSON. "VOTICR I hereby given that the eor-pnratlon of RKUOIEt'SES KOETRS 1ION1MTAF.IEKFH PR 8AI.VT-JOSBPH IK DH MOXTItEAI," will apply to the. Legislature of tho Province of Quehee, at lta next session, for certain amendments to Its Aet of Incorporation.

12 Victoria. Chap. respecting lta powers, and par-lleularly Its borrowing powers, and for other purposes. LES REUOIKl'SES ROKT'RS HOHPI-TAMKKKS DK rfAINT-JORRI'U DE DK MOXTr.E Quebec, December 1027. VOTI COTICB IN BANKRI rcy No.

157- XI fn matter tt chant, it No. il7a Bt. Hubert Hireet. Authorised Notice V. Montreal, made an authorlied axulirn- iiient or nla property tor 'lie tiem'tll oc Ilia creditor on the StHli Ui" of Peceni- vler, Hrrt.

Notice I alno that the Brut meeting- of creditors In the above estate will he held at the Offli-lal Kit- e-lver'a (Iffiee, Koomlill, Court llousa. Moutreul, on the lith day of January, at three o'cluek In the of I'lalma and proxies to he used nt the meeting must be lodged with ni pr'nr thereto. Dated it Montreal, this day of iM-ember KKoniJKM Drri.OH, Custodian, Ht. Jamea Street, Montreal. NOTICE to on.

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