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VANCOUVER DAILY WORLD The Newspaper of the Home FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1923. Women Jurors Are Challenged By the Crown Prosecutor If You Can't. Wear Plates If there found it plates we suit with be any who have impossible to wear invite them to con us. SOLDIERS FIRE $71,000 RAISED FOR PUBLICITY Grain Boat Barrier is Abolished It has been our good fortune to successfully fit patients who had been without teeth for as long as 20' years. "If we accept your case, we guarantee perfect satisfaction.

i Telephone Seymour 2606 Cor. Hamilton and Hasting Sts Over the Bank of Hamilton SHOTS, CROWD FLEES IN PANIC Dt RLIN. Oct. 19 (Canadian Preas) Exciting scenes occurred outside Mount Joy prison here today when crowds of women congregated in on effort to prevent the removal of hunger striking prisoners. The troops failed to clean the streets and shets were fired, causing a stampede in which many persons were trampled and others fainted.

RUN, Oct. ID. (Canadian Press) Discovery of a tunnel used by prisoners for communication between their cell3 was reported today by the authorities of Mount. Joy prison, where several hundred "Republican" soldier prisoners recently started a hunger strike. To Vote Saturday On School Bylaw rOINT GREY, Oct.

19. The voting on the school bylaw for the raising of to build new schools and enlarge those at present in operation, will take place Saturday. Seven polling places have been arranged as follows: Ward 1, store, 3219 Heather Street; Ward Queen Mary school; Ward 3, Municipal hall; Ward board of trade rooms; Ward 5. municipal hall; Ward 6, Community hall, 1476 Dunbar Street; Ward 7, garage, corner Granville and Angus Streets. The municipal hall has been set as a general polling booth for all wards.

Reading jokes at his expense is quite enough to make the tired business man tired. Roanoke Times. BRITISH DOCTORS THREATEN TO GO ON STRIKE LONDON, Oct. 19. (Canadian Press) A strike of several hundred British physicians on January 1 next was decided upon yesterday The strikers are members of the Panel Doctors' Union, which serves 15.000.000 men and women contributors to the national health fund.

The decision to strike was taken at a conclave in London as an act of refusal to accept reduction in fees At present the doctors get 9 shillings fl pence nnm.nlly for each patient registered on the.ir respective lists. The minister of health proposed reducing the ratejo 8 shillings 6 pence. The conclave had been considering the proposiil for several days. The health fund is an outgrowth of the national insurance act passed when Mr. Lloyd George was chancellor of the exchequer In 1911, being one of his many measures aled to help the masses.

During employment the workers pay pence, in the case of men, and 4 pence In the case of women weekly, the employers contributing an equal sum Into the fund. The system cost the taxpayers more than 26, 000, 000 in 1921 and the government proposes to cut the rate and have the societies foot the entire bill. The. societies have, refused to do this, thus bringing another party into the dispute. Fourteen thousand doctors are affected by the decision of the conclave, but unless two thirds of them resign the decision will remain ineffective.

Photographers May Exhibit At Wembley The Vancouver and New West minster Photographers Association held their final meeting of the year at the Wadds studio, 736 Granville Street. Thursday evening. The charter of affiliation from the Pacific Northwest Association was formally presented by Vice President Vanderpant. Owing to the high rating many local photographs have received at the recent conventions, it was decided to send an association display of professional work to the Empire Exhibition in London is space is available, False Creek Dispute Ends, Says Pattullo Tho dispute which had retarded public and private development on False Creek has at last been closed, Hon. T.

D. Pattullo, minister of lands, declared when viBiting the city Thursday to investigate the settlement of the foreshore rights between the provincial and Dominion governments. The minister explained that the settlement gave the provincial government the foreshore right, with administration of navigation matters In the hands of the Vancouver Harbor Commissioners. The commissioners, in planning development, would huve to deal with tho government as a private corporation, but would bo looked upon with sympathy, as the government favored development, he said. The minister was taken over the disputed properties by Inspector James Smith, who had charge of the investigation.

FORT WILLIAM, Oct. lit. (Special In The World.) By a ruling of the hoard of grain 'ommliom rs this afternoon, after consultation with the minister trade and rommerre, lion. T. A.

ow, tariffs filed by the iiiippem iiutlead of ktcam ship companies will he accepted by the board jl groin commissioner. This means the abolition of the hurrier that has kept American steamhipi away from Canadian porta so fur this season, wirti a few exceptions. Agreement About Park Is Reached If the agreement reached this morning between representatives of the rlty and the Great Northern railway, relative to the development of the park project on Main street, Ik ratified by the council, arrangements will be mude for the work to proceed at an expense of between and 1100,000. Costs of the paving necessary wiil be borne on a fifty fifty basis, but the park construction will be under taken at the expense of the. city und parks board.

Aldermen Almond and Owen, with City Comptroller Pilkinglnn, City En gineer Fellowes and City Solicitor J. H. Williams, represented the city at the meeting with A. H. MacNcill, K.

C. this morning, and the agreement arrived at will be drawn up in legal form and submitted to the council for ratification. WILL rROKE SEWER Pl.AX. Following repreent.itiuns made to Hon. John Oliver by Mayor Tlsdall, the former has instructed E.

A. Cleveland, provincial government engineer, to make an investigation and report regarding the construction of the Alma Road Imperial Street sewer wirti a view to government assistance being granted for the project. LOIHjE WANQIET TONIGHT. Royal Edward Lodge 690 of the R.A.O.B., Grand Surrey Banner, will hold Its first annual banquet and whist drive at the Grosvenor hotel tonight at 7:80 o'clock. NO ANXIETY TO HAVE WOMEN ON JURIEHHOWN Three Set Aside When Called for Duty in Fraud Case at Assizes No particular anxiety In have women Jurors Is being dlsplyaed by lawyers at the assizes.

When the names of three, women were, called for jury duty today in the ca.se against F. A. Stevens, charged with fraud, Henderson, K.C., challenged them and hey were set down. Mr. Justice Gregory is hearing the case.

I'ollard Urant is appearing for the defendant. It is alleged by Kam Morincello that, he entered Into an agreement with Stevens whereby the latter was to turn over to 'him for 3000 several cases of German goods. He made' a deposit, of $200 to bind the bargain and alleges that be neither got the goods nor got his deposit UHJUM' back. Okanagan Girls Walking To Coast VERNON. Oct.

19. (Canadian Pressl The Misses M. Warhur ton. M. Pegs and K.

Freeman, who ricked fruit In the L'oildstrram orch rds during the summer, are walking to the coast. With packs on their backs like transcontinental hikers the young ladies are counting the miles as they get nearer to the coast. From Summerland they walked to Princeton, where they were to decide which route they would bike. Victoria Man Freed Of Manslaughter VICTORIA. H.

Oct. 19. (Canadian Press) The aequittal of Arthur Thorpe on the charge of manslaughter in connection with the death of Thorwald Uirkland, who died following an automobile accident, and the sentencing of Jack Steele to one year'i imprisonment upon conviction on a serious offence against a juvenile featured the closing moments of the assize court today. Stock of Eastern Sales, first offered 980 691 289 PURPOSES HERE At a luncheon of the Publicity Bureau officials In the Hotel Vancouver today. Alderman Crone announced a grand total of $71,900 as a result of the recent campaign for funds to use for publicity purposes.

The total includes $30,033 cash in j' bank and $28,938 in pledges with estimated collective subscriptions from large firms amounting to $1 2.500. Aid. Crone said that he anticipated that. $75,000 would be raised before the campaign was closed officially. The money raised by a can! pros pet tun was collected by service teams.

The Class A team took care of larger contributions, collecting In cash und promises. Rotary Club, Kiwanlx, Gyro and Lions service clubs raised $12,300. The Lions head the list having collected $2532. Their quota was the smallest, with 246 calls to make and an utrgre gate collectable umount of $6613, of which they collected 29.3 per cent. The Gyros, with 464 calls and a quota of $15,405.

collected $1038.59, or 29.2 per cent. Kiwanis Club collected $3581 or 18.7 per cent, of" their quota, which was $15,405. The no tary Club with an aggregate quota of $15,900. and 833 calls to make, collected $2129, or 13.8 per cent. Aid.

Crone, who leaves for the east tonight, said that he was hopeful of placing before the club at the next meeting of the board figures showing that the $75,000 mark had been reached. Steamer Loads B. C. Liquor For Mexico NEW WESTMINSTER. Oct.

19 Eleven carloads of liquor, 10,000 cases of "Caledonian" whiskey from B. C. Distillers and beer from Vancouver Brewery are being loaded at the new market wharf here on the S.S. Trinre Albert for Mexico. JIM SING GETS THREE MONTHS WEST Vancouver, Oct.

19. Magistrate Robson on Thursday afternoon sentenced Jim Sing, a Chinaman, to three months' hard labor and fined him $50 for a statutory offence. At Astonishing Prices I I Big Special Robinson to Command the' Canada' MONTREAL, Oct. 19. Special to The World) It was announced today by Mr.

G. M. Boswortb, chairman of the Canadian Pacific Steamships, that Captain S. Robinson, R.N.H., the hero of the Yokohama disaster, would command of S.S. "Empress of Canada" on her round the world rulse starting from New York in January.

Captain Kobinson, as commander of the "Empress of Australia," played a heroic part in the saving of many lives In the great catastrophe of Yokohama. Tolmie Re Elected Board President NORTH VANCOUVER, Oct. 19. Aid. W.

A. Tolmie was re elected president hy acclamation by the Hoard of Trade on Thursday night. Magistrate L. Watts Doney was elected honorary president by acclamation; Alderman V. J.

Irwin, vice president, acclamation; J. S. Rogers and C. 11. Meyers were respectively re elected secretary and treasurer by acclamation.

Chair men of the ten standing committees were elected by ballot as follows: A. E. Perry, W. Dickinson, Mayor D. Donaghy, A.

Philip, E. C. Walsh, 1 M. Jones, 1). Y.

Dougan, A. E. Crick may, A. Y. Tullis and G.

H. Morden. VV. C. Lamberton was reappointed auditor.

President Tolmie in his address predicted; for the North Shore a bright future. The two outstanding features of the past year were the signing or the contract for the bridge and the building of the drydock. Legion Wants Navy Equal To Britain's SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 19. (As snciated Press.) The resolution advocated by the naval committee of the American Legion convention and adopted by the convention, recommended that the navy department keep the United States fleet equal to that of Great Britain, including the establishment and maintenance of such bases and navy yards as may be necessary; that bases on the Pacific Coast, as recommended by the Rodman board, be developed at tho earliest possible time; building up of the merchant marine, because "if all navies were sunk by treaty, merchant marines would then be the principal source of naval power, and on this basis Great Britain would at.

present, have as much power as all of the larger nations combined." Other resolutions adopted favor adjusted compensation for ex service men, the 5 5 3 nuval ratio plan, a strong and adequate air force and complete rehabilitation and hospitalization for the disabled veterans. Shakespeare's Own Handwriting Found LONDON', Oct. 19. (Canadian Tress) "A Shakespearean discovery of the first magnitude" is announced by the Daily Express on the author ity of Vernon R. Rendall, former ed itor of the Athenaeum.

The announcement fays that, for more than 100 years there hus lain in the Britten museum 147 lines of manuscript constituting aft addition t0 a. play written by Anthony CHun day. the Elizabethan writer. It has now been established by eminent scholars, according to thj I present statement, that the hand writing of the manuscript is actually mac or ine great dramatist. The Express asserts that the manuscript is the most valuable in the world, adding: "it can never be bought by the Americans unless they buy the British museum." NEAR THE END Saturday Will See the Climax of Value Giving at TOYO'S "EXTRA" 10 DAY SILK SALE A wonderful array of the new season's goods at exceptionally low prices.

Don't fail to see it. See Window Displays. RECORD SELLING i 0ERC0AT Ladies' Garment at 'Famous' Oct. 11 In Saturday Garments Sold to date Left to sell SATURDAY SINCE we first offered our customers the remarkable stock of the Eastern Ladies' Garment Sales last week, we have sold more garments for such a short period than ever before in our fourteen years of big selling in Vancouver. Now only 289 garments remain for Saturday's selling.

YVc intend to clear these right out in one big day of unprecedented values. A glance at these prices will open your eyes. Don't miss your last chance, Saturdav. Unequalled in Vancouver. Pure wool, check back, half silk lined; belted or plain; Raglan or set in sleeves.

New shades of grey, green, brown, fawn and mixtures. Right here, waiting for you to try on SB Squatters' Case Is Set For Oct. 29 Fight for tho possession of those tracts of land In Stanley Park held by squatters will be waged in Vancouver courts on October :9, when the bearing of the city's application for a declaration of title in the Gon zalve's case will come before the court. Co plaintiff with the city is the Federal government an, the park i held under a 99 year lease. The fact that the Federal government is a party to the action makes It obligatory on the squatters to prove undisturbed possession for 60 years instead of 21 years, which would have been the case if the city was alone in the action.

Many old timers will be called as witnesses. G. K. McCrossan. corporation counsel, will represent both the city and the government in the action, while G.

Roy Long is acting for the squatters. $475.00 Terms: $13 Per Month FREE STOOL Don't open the door to a little less, is dear at Opposite Province Office DRESSES Everybody is buying one of these. Don't delay i you want a good selection. They're exceptional values. Prices COATS 19 25 Buys a see these Buys one of the remaining few of a wonderful line of coats.

Come quickly for these. 'D1CIC limited 15 WILLIAM 45 47 $39.50 coat. "When you you won't hesitate. 49 Hastings Street East SUITS $19 .50 will convince you of the you can make here. In prices, all away below the Clearing Saturday at $35 35 Buys a beautiful coat in all wool tweed, with English plaid back.

Raccoon trimmed shawl collar. Outstanding quality. Buy now and save $'J0. One look savings three real values. PIANO CLUB $25 Limited to 25 Ml 1 Basement Bargains You Caiv Resist Dresses, $8.95 Utility Coats, 811.95 Raincoats, 87.50 Tweed Suits, 87.50 Velour Coats, 815.00 Puts a Famous Karn Piano in Your Home on these Basement No CO D.

or delivery items. SPECIAL CLUB PRICES $425.00 Terms: $10 Per Month FREE DELIVERY With our usual protection in case of sickness or loss of employment future regrets by buying a cheap grade piano hich, although costin costing $450.00 Terms: $12 Per Month WEST I silk Importers I 788 Granville Street I In 51 I A mJXSVC I iuiiw. any price. THE KABX PIANO is of the highest grade. MAKE VOIR SELECTION" NOW, AND WE WILL HOLD PIANO TILL IT IS CONVENIENT FOR VOL TO TAKE DELIVERY.

REMEMBER, this is the greatest Piano Value ever offered in Vancouver, and only limited to 25. AJELLO PIANO CO. 147 HASTINGS ST..