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a THE MONTREAL DAILY STAR, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1934 ELUDE BRIGANDS, CAUGHT BY STORK Fleeing Missionaries Give Birth to Babies Canadians in Party CHANGSHA, Hunan Province, China, Dec. group of fugitive missionaries which arrived here from bandit-threatened regions today revealed that while they successfully evaded brigand armies, they were unable to out-distance the stork. They brought with them two newlybabies, who came into the world under du difficult conditions a little Chinese village where refugees paused briefly in flight from Changteh, 120 miles to the west. first to arrive was a girl, born to Mrs. Nettie Loomis Graham, of Carbondale, Pa.

A few hours later son was born to Mrs. N. Wagner, of Waterford, Mich. The which included most of the Protestant missionaries in Changteh, was ordered by authorities to evacuate that city when cannonading became ominously close. They set out in junks for Changaha, hopeful of getting the expectant mothers 1 to a hospital here before the birth of the children.

After half a day's travel, however, the junks were obliged to tie up at a country village, where the children were born in A rude Chinese house. Dr. George Totell, of Chicago, one of the party, attended them. The mothers and the infants are doing well. Protestant missionaries successfully evacuated from danger zones in Hunan province include: Mr.

and Mrs. A. Caswell, of Vancouver, B.C.; W. N. Wagner and family, Waterford, all of the Canadian Holiness Missions.

OLD BENCH WARRANT SERVED ON WOMAN Failed To Appear on Charge of Fraud Taken into custody today by Sergeant Detectives Allain and Bessette on a bench warrant issued over a year ago, when she failed to appear to face a charge of false pretenses, Helen Coughiin, 41, who gave her ad- dress as Apt. 110 1426 Pearce street, will now have to face almost half a dozen charges. Accused was originally scheduled appear on a charge of obtaining $15 by false pretenses with false cheque last year. Following her arraignment before Tetreault in police court this morning police officers revealed that 11 other charges of false pretenses will be preferred against her as result of complaint since her disappearance. She was remanded today to tive headquarters for three days and preliminary inquiry' was set for January 3.

MRS. VANDERBILT'S REQUEST REFUSED NEW YORK, Dec. 28-(Star Special) -An order formally denying the application of Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt for appointment as guardian of her 10-year-old daughter, Gloria, was signed yesterday by Surrogate James A. Foley.

At the same time the Surrogate set next Thursday for a hearing on Mrs. Vanderbilt's application that she be appointed a co-guardian of the child's $3.000,000 estate. STOCK, CROPS BURNED CHATEAU- RICHER. Dec. -Fifteen animals and the crops of an entire season were deatroyed by flames last night when fire broke out in the barn of David Pichette, local farmer.

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Charles Grandclaude was posthumously honored yesterday in a Government citation 88 martyr to medical science. Dr. Grandclaude, assistant chief of the Anti-Cancer Clinic in Lille, died as the result of experimenting with cancerous while he had a small finger wound. Septicaenia 00- curred. The citation described him A8 A victim of his professional and scientific devotion.

SAAR SOCIALISTS ATTACKING HITLER German Front Deputies Promise to Do Nothing to Disturb Peace SAARBRUECKEN, Dec. 28 (C. Saar Landesrat, local governing body in Territory, met today in an atmosphere so charged with animosity in connection with the forthcoming January 13 plebiscite that the president abruptly adjourned session. the Socialists and Communists, in their united front, launched a firm attack on the policies of Chancellor Hitler in the face of which the German Front members of the Landesrat left the chamber in a body. It was then that the President decided to close the session.

The attack from the Socialists and Communists came after one of the German Front deputies announced that the German Front, while protesting against the sending of foreign troops into the Saar, would do nothing to disturb the work of these troops. This declaration, made while the Landesrat was discussing the Saar rent problem, was all that was needed to ignite the charged atmosphere. FIGHT INTENSIFIED The bitter fight for ballots in the January 13 plebiscite was intensified today with anti-Nazi newspapers charging that a plot against cellor Hitler, not immorality, brought recent widespread arrests in Germany. Nazi officials, said the Opposition organs, have admitted this. Publication in the Saar by an antiHitler newspaper of allegations that 100.

have been killed and 1,000 arrested in Germany in another "June purge brought the campaign to a feverish pitch. The Nazi explanation to SaarlanderM of what is happening in Germany is that 300 were arrested for immorality. Of these, the Nazis say, 200 have been released but a "clique of 100 was detained for intriguing." "This," says the anti-Nazi Press, "is frank admission of plot against" Hitler. (The anti-Nazi charges were vigorously denied in Berlin, which said there have been no arrests for abnormalities in two years. The accusations were characterized as A political trick).

Members of the "Common Front," an organization fighting against vote for reunion with Germany, claim they have won thousands of votes since the Hitler purge of six months ago. The latest "purge," their organ, the newspaper Volkstimme, said WAR directed against the Schutz Staffel, or picked Nazi guards. SOCIALIST CHANGE. Max Braun, blue Socialist who is editor of the Volkstimme and an anti- Nazi chieftain, opened his final drive from a sick bed today. The 42-year-old former school teacher is directing the Common Front's big effort to hold the Saar under the League of Nations, from the top floor of the Socialist welfare centre, where he is ill of influenza.

There Braun is writing bitter editorials in an effort to convince Saar. landers they are better off under the League than they would be with "Hitler Germany." The Nazis. Braun says, have secretly offered 50,000 marks (about $19,500) to anyone who can kidnap and carry him across the German frontier "to be dealt with." "Someone tried to collect," he related, "but I was off that a fast automobile had come to Saarbruecken to get me so I took necesaary precautions and the plot was foiled." Braun, who is editor of three Socialist newspapers which condemn Hitlerism daily, rarely goes into the streets and then only with an armed bodyguard. Although he is a full-blooded German and a he is so hated by those who want to rejoin the Fatherland through the plebiscite January 13, that he says he is virtually barricaded in the Socialist welfare centre in Hohenzollernstrasse. More than A year ago he WAS ejected from his apartment and since then has not found anyone willing to rent him another.

He lives with his wife and brother. Heinrich, 2 -exile from Germany, on the top floor of the welfare centre in small rooms adjacent to the kitchen of the centre's restaurant. Before illness he was forced to go to Forbach. Across the French frontier, to get his hair cut for barbers in Saarbrucken refuse to serve him. Before Hitler came to power Braun was An ardent advocate of turning the Saar back to Germany.

are all Germans," he saya, "and there was no difference before the advent of Hitler. We remain German and we will not vote for France. But the Saar must not gO to Hitler. There 18 a difference between Germany and Hitler. 'And this la why." he his steel gray head.

"that mv life will not be worth much if the Nazis come here after next January 13.11 MINISTER RESIGNS. BERLIN. Dec 28 (C P. HavaR) Walter Darre, Minister of Agriculture in Chancellor Adoll Hitler's Cabinet, was reported to have resigned today following a violent quarrel with Dr. Ijalmar Schacht, Interim Minister of Economy.

THANKS FOR TRIP: Saarbruecken, Saar Basin Territory. Dec. 28 An anonymous Saarlander from the United States who was brought here by the Nazis to vote for them in the January 13 plebiscite, startled the supporters of Hitter today by subscribing to the anti- Nazi Catholic group, the "Ger. man People's Party, A subscription list appearing in the party's organ. New Saar Post." included the following acknowledgment "Saarlander from America (with thanks for free trip to 100 france." The slogan of the Catholic party For Christ and against Hitter and new paganism." FRESH COLD WAVE MOVES FROM WEST (Continued from Page 1) were additonal deaths to swell the total of fatalities indirectly attributed to the Arctic blast which overspread the northern half of the United States earlier in the week.

Among those who died were three young girls who perished in flames in their home at Mishawaka, Ind. Six deaths attributed to the cold snap were reported from Montana, two other persons were missing and were believed to have perished the storm. They were Private Michael Celopez of Fort Missoula, and days from Johann his ago. Herzog, cabin 72, near who Miles disappeared City 10 Eight Marooned Persons Rescued SUSANVILLE, Dec. 28-(U.

Eight persons, marooned for 24 hours by a storm in the barren Bridge Creek area, were rescued today, according to the Lassen County sheriff's office. A deputy said the party, which in. cluded 'two children, was being brought to Susanville by caterpillar tractor. "They're all safe," the spokesman told the United Press. Among those saved from exposure in temperatures which dropped to almost zero were a Pittsville family of a father, mother, and two children; Mr.

and Mrs. A. N. Brown, of Susanville; and Russ Johnson and Lee Sweidel, Susanville garageman who started out Wednesday night to aid the others. The rescue represented slow, tedious work on the part of state highway employes who smashed through the snow with motorized plows, clearing the way for the tractor, which carried food and supplies to aid the marooned party.

It was still snowing when the rescuers reached Bridge Creek, where bro Brown's machine had broken down, the sheriff's office reported. The storm had started after Brown had telephoned to Susanville for a tow car Wednesday night. More than 18 inches of heavy "wet and sticky snow" fell. The wet snow made progress of the rescuers more difficult. Crippled Steamer Reaches Halifax HALIFAX, Dec.

28 (C.P.) A plaything of the Atlantic for five days, the Belgian freighter Emile Francqui was driven SO close to ledges on the Nova Scotia coast that life preservers were out to passengers and crew, captan George de Gryse revealed after the rudderless ship had been assisted to a haven in Halifax harbor. "I was worried more than I have been in all my sea career," the 50- year-old skipper declared, "and I was never nearer death in my 37 years at sea." The same skipper was one of six men saved from a crew of 36 after the Belgian vessel Londonier was torpedoed during the war. The Emile Francqui's rudder was carried away Sunday while the freighter was 200 miles southeast of Sable Island, homeward bound for Antwerp from New York. Next day another ship of the same line. the Henri Jaspar, took her in tow and headed for Halifax, but the hawser parted Wednesday.

TOW LINES SNAP A south -east gale was sweeping the Francqui toward the Sambro Ledges when the ocean-going tug Foundation Franklin put another line on her. That snapped too on Wednesday night and for hours the fate of the freighter was uncertain. One more line from the Franklin broke yesterday morning, but later the helpless vessel was snatched from the rocks by the Government steamer Lady Laurier and the small tug Ban Shee, "My anchors were ready fore and aft," said Captain Gryse after his vessel was safe in Halifax harbor. "I dropped them at an opportune time. They held in the sand.

Luckily it was holding ground. Our engines worked all the time in order to keep the ship from the beckoning rocks and the wild wind was heading us right for them. "It wag the good seamanship of the captain of the Lady Laurier and the capabilittes of the young skipper of the Ban Shee that makes it possible for me to tell my tale today," the Belgian commander continued. "I have not had my clothes off for five days. Neither have any of my crew.

They have all been courageous- -but why speak of it? It is all the game of the sea, and when it is over we forget about it." Among the five passengers on the Francqui WAS one woman, Mrs. Lower de Wotrenge. FEARS FOR SCHOONERS Fears for the safety of crews aboard two sailing vessels were expressed in the Maritime Provinces today following a series of gales that caused havoc on land and sea. An unknown craft was believed to be in need of assistance outside Saint John harbor while the people of Yarmouth were worried about the tern schooner Nova Queen, overdue from Turks Island. The small schooner off the New Brunswick port was sighted yesterday, but a tug that tried to aid her was forced back by the high seas.

Laden with salt for Yarmouth, the Nova Queen has not been reported since December 4 and it is feared she may have been crippled by one of the storms that have swept the Atlantic seaboard for more than 8. week. Rescue Of Six Men Depends On Weather EDMONTON. Dec. 28 Rescue of the crew of the Hudson's Bay Company schooner Margot stranded for the past two weeks at Letty Harbor on the Arctic Ocean, 1,200 miles north of here, must await better weather or longer days, aviation officials said today.

Ten days ago plane was sent to Cameron Bay on Great Bear Lake, to prepare for the jump to Letty Harbor. but bad flying weather, fog, and brief hours of continuous day. light have forced successive postponements of the rescue flight so far. The air distance from Cameron Bay to Letty Harbor 1s 400 miles, with no possible landings on the route. The Margot's crew of six men WAR stranded when the schooner was crushed by ice near the harbor.

They are well provisioned. THUNDERSTORM IN LONDON LONDON, Dec. 28 (A.P.) freak summertime lightning storm broke over London shortly after midnight today, while many sections of North America were suffering from biter cold and gales. Springlike weather continues here with the records showing that London experiences the warmest December in 82 years. Daffodil buds appeared aix weeks ahead of time, and primroses and violets were raising their heads in the country districts.

GASOLINE BOAT SAFE. BOSTON. Dec. 28-(A. -A tiny gasoline boat, the Dominion Halsyd.

of Halifax, bearing a cargo of pota- Police Firearm at Loss Heirloom When OTTAWA, to Dee. do about 28- (C. all I sorta of firearms, ancient and modern which are turning up in attics and cellars is puzzling the Ottawa City police. Notices were recently issued warning all persons owning revolvers and pistols to register them prior to January 1, or suffer the penalties of a new provision in the Criminal Code. Lacking specific instructions, the police are at a loss to decide when a gun should be registered.

Many people possessing such family heirlooms as the pistol grandfather carried in the Crimean war, father carried in South Africa or son or brother used the Great War are digging the rusty weapons out of hiding places and taking them to the police. Gun-collectors also present a problem. Their collections contain many pleces which co could be classed as revolvers, but which are never used. SHORT HOLIDAY ENDS WITH YEAR IN PRISON Other Sentences Given in Court who Harry Hartman. 41, Hungarian.

just managed to get out of jail for Christmas on December 24, went back to jail today to stay until next Christmas. Hartman was sentenced to 12 months by Judge Tetreau on a charge of breaking into 8 store owned by M. Lemay at Craig and Bonsecours streets on Christmas morning and stealing a watch valued at $1.00. He had been released the day before after completing sixmonths term received last June for a similar offence. Aurele Beauregard, 29, was called "an inveterate drunkard" by Judge Tetreau as His Honor sentenced him to one month in jail on a charge of obtaining $30 worth of relief from the Montreal Unemployment Relief Commission between October 20 and December 4.

A plea for clemency made on behalf of two of his children by Donato Galipoli, no given address, sentenced to four months in jail with hard labor on a charge of false pretences, was answered by Judge Tetreau with a promise that he would see to that the children taken care of under the Public Charities Act. Galipoli had pleaded guilty to a charge of obtaining $175.05 from the Montreal Relief Commission and to a charge of perjury. He had told the relief officers that his five children were depending on him. It was later discovered three of the children were in an orphanage, one was being boarded with a family here and the fifth with a family in Quebec city. Officers and investigators of the Women's Minimum Wage Commission have turned their attention to the chain stores for first time' with the result that three chain stores were represented among 13 accused appearing in police court today before Judge Tetreau to answer charges of violation of the Women's Minimum Wage Act.

All 13 pleaded not guilty and were remanded to January 4 for trial. The 13 accused represented in court were the three chain stores: The Grand 5, 10, 15 cents to $1.00 stores; Greenberg's and Variety 5, 10 15 cent stores; and Ideal Lingerie Jeannette Lingerie Manufacturing Company; Montreal Gloves, National Dress Company, Limited; New York Rhinestone Novelty Company; Reliable Fur Company; Solid Gloves Manufacturing Company: Mrs. Van de Riviere, Excelsior Children's Wear; and J. A. Renaud.

SLAYER IN ALBERTA REFUSED REPRIEVE GOTTAWA, Dec. has decided not to interfere in the case of Julius Kassal, Wetaskiwin, sentenced to be hanged for murder on December 31, it was announced today. toes, turnips codfish oil from Halifax to Boston, arrived safely today, allaying fears that it had been battered and lost in the heavy seas Wednesday. The crew of eight on the heavily ice-coated boat reported no injuries, but showed signs of exhaustion. Capt.

Edward Lowe said that he had left Halifax on Christmas Day and that the next day a wind of hurricane proportions had blown the boat off its course. The Dominion Halsyd was due here early Wednesday. WORK IN BLIND'S BEHALF REVIEWED Expansion of Services Rural Sightless 1934 Highlight TORONTO, Dec. 28 (C.P,) ----Increased demand for its products, maintenance of income at the level of the past four years and expansion of services to the rural blind were 1934 developments that greatly encouraged the Canadian National Institute for Blind, Captain A. E.

Baker, managing director, disclosed yesterday in an interview. articles manufactured by the blind Throughout a Canada demand for was reflected in greater sales, but Ontario and the Maritime Provinces outstripped them all with a 27 per cent increase in the last seven months compared with a similar year ago. Despite maintenance of income, the greatest problem faced by the institute remains the elderly unemployable blind. "The institute is making every effort to relieve this said Captain Baker, it is recognized that the only' adequate solution of the maintenance problem, where need exists, must be a form of state aliowance or pension for the blind." Increased public interest in work of the institute was noted throughout the Dominion, Captain Baker said, especially Ontario where institute boards were established in Hamilton, London, Ottawa, St. Catharines, Kingston, Fort William, Port Arthur, Oshawa, Peterborough and Port Hope.

In smaller centres of population in Canada, special committees and auxiliaries were formed to look after local needs. Special efforts have been made to complete a register of Canada's blind, but the task is far from finished. At present 7,200 are registered, the oldest of whom is John Martin, of Kingston, 108 last September. He became blind when 101 years old. The most comprehensive exhibit of activities and work of the institute was presented at the Canadian Nation Exhibition where 200,000 people were amazed at the variety and skill of the work done by the sightless.

Captain Baker plans to have a greater and more interesting exhibit for 1935. PARAGUAYAN TROOPS DISGUISED, IS CHARGE Bolivia Claims Violation of Articles of War LA PAZ. Bolivia, Dec. -Bolivia vigorously protested yesterday against Paraguayan conduet in the Gran Chaco border war and simultaneously reiterated her cooperation with League of Nations peace efforts. The War Ministry denounced violation of the articles war, accusing Paraguay of making an attack with her soldiers disguised in Bolivian uniforms.

The Foreign Ministry through the Bolivian delegate at Geneva. Adolf Costa du Rels, informed League officials of its views regarding the Paraguayan objections to the Assemblv's peace plan. The statement broadly harmonized with the Chaco advisory committee's own reply to Paraguay, in which the objections were answered, and the way left open to reconsideration by Asuncion. Bolivia has already accepted the plan in full, contingent upon similar acceptance by Paraguay, TWO DAVIS CASE SETTLEMENTS MADE A settlement out of court of long standing litigation between the executors of the estate of the late Sir Mortimer Davis and Lady Henriette Davis, his first wife, was confirmed this morning by Mr. Justice Curran in the Practice Court.

No particulars A8 to the nature of the settlement were given to the court. Two actions between the parties had been pending in the courts for considerable time. In the first action Lady Henriette Davis claimed an amount of upwards of $4,000,000 as the value of stocks settled on her under her marriage contract with Sir Mortimer Davis. In the second action A large number of stocks held by Lady Henriette Davis were seized by the executors of her former husband's estate, who contended that they belonged to the estate. A congressman made an error in Grant's cadet appointment, which was made out to Ulysses Simpson Grant and never corrected.

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BOTTLE GENUINE CAPE WINE PRODUCED THE EMPIRE REV. ERNEST FITCH DIES OF PNEUMONIA GRANVILLE, 0., Dec. 28 Rev. Ernest R. Fitch, 56, Ohio director of the Board of Promotion of the Northern Baptist Convention for the last nine years, died yesterdex, of native pneumonia.

of Woodstock, in Duluth, he formerly held pastorates Ashtabula, and Chicago, and in 1918 was secretary of the New World Movement in Minnesota and Wisconsin. CALIFORNIA OWL FINDS WAY TO CORBEIL, ONT. Flight Longest Recorded for Particular Species OTTAWA, Dec. far-off California a wise young owl travelled to Corbeil, perhaps to see the Dionne quintuplets, perhaps on some other mission. In any case he travelled to his death although he made a record flight for his kind.

The owl was a young bird of the long-eared variety and he was shot by a hunter at Corbeil. An official report from Washington has just been received here which completes the owl's story, all except the reason for his visit to the home of the world's most famous babies. The bird bore a leg band, inscribed and numbered at Escondido, on April 22, 1934. He was shot at Corbell on Oct. 9, and his band was forwarded to Washington for Iden.

tification. Owls have been known to make long flights before but never before has so lengthy a journey this been recorded. The owl is dead, and whether his long ears picked up word of the quintuplets and the inspired him to make the trip remain a mystery. VALIDITY OF MARRIAGE BY RABBI IS UPHELD Officiated at Ceremony Himself QUEBEC, 1. Dec.

Mr. Justice G. F. Gibsone yesterday upheld the validity of the marriage of Rabbi S. Eliasoff, which had been contested in the courts on the ground that the rabbi performed his own marriage ceremony, Justice Gibsone found no opposition to the ceremony, according to rites and regulations of the Jewish faith.

In recognizing the validity of the marriage, he ordered that it be entered with the registrar of civil found that a failure to register the status of the Jewish community. He marriage at the time it was contracted was due to an oversight. CHURCHILL GIVES HOMES TO TENANTS LONDON, Dec. Churchill played the part of Santa Claus tardily, but effectively, yesterday. The former Chancellor of the Exchequer presented 14 houses he owns in the tiny fishing village of Carlough, County Antrim, to the tenants occupying them.

All the occupants are working people, some of them without employment. EMPLOYES HONORED The Magog Print Works department of the Dominion Textile Company Limited presented. John L. Moffat. overseer of the finishing department and Thomas M.

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