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INCORPORATING  THB  ROYAL  GAZETTE (Establish^ 1628)  and  THE  BERMUDA  COLONIST  (Established 1866)
VOL. 15—NO. 257
HAMILTON, BERMUDA,   FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31  ,1930
3d PER COPY—40/- PER ANNUM
KING  TO  BE  PRESENT   ATlfRMISTICE  DAY   CEREMONIES
IMPERIAL  POLICY   OUTLINED BY BALDWIN
HEAVY FINES FOR DEFAULTING
BROKERS
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Late News of Sanguinary Battle—Plight of Sugar
Colonies Under Discussion—Shocking Stories of Formosa Massacre—Bordeaux Ex*
[ |    press Wrecked. Many Killed and Injured—Severe Earthquake in Italy
—Submarine   Expedition   to
North Pole—New  Bond
I Issue for Nova Scotia
—Sporting News
KING   TO  BE  PRESENT  AT
CENOTAPH   ON   ARMISTICE
DAY
LONDON, Oct. 29—The King is
planning to be present at the coming Armistice Day service at the
Cenotaph and will place a wreath
on the memorial. He will be accompanied by the Prince of Wales
and the Duke ol York.
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BALDWIN ON IMPERIAL POLICY
LONDON, Oct. 30—At the Conservative rally today Baldwin, outlining his Imperial policy (which
received the support of all present
except Beaverbrook), said he had
already decided that nothing short
of a tariff on foreign manufactured
goods would meet the situation of
British industry. He pledged to
introduce one immediately he came
into ofHce. In regard to the Imperial Conference, he said no leader
of the Conservative Party could
have taken any other line than the
one he took—namely, the acceptance of the Dominion Premier-
preference offer and the expression
of willingness to have a perfectly
free hand with which to deal. The
whole position had, however,
completely changed since Spring.
The Conservative Party had now a
logical basis upon which to fight.
Baldwin at this point exclaimed,
"We can not, of course, goon as we
have been going. I will not say
more about that." Baldwin then
referred to his fiscal policy as a
policy of the free hand. At the
conclusion of his statement, Baldwin asked all supporters of his
policy to raise their hands, and
Beaverbrook's was the only un-
raised hand. Baldwin continued
and said that he had been pressed
to resign. In some circumstances
he would not say that he would have
resigned, but would have considered
the matter. He declared "Under
the present circumstances I will
not give It consideration" (loud
and prolonged applause) but if the
party, after discussion, told him
it desired another leader, then he
would walk out without malice
and retire from poUtics and do
nothing to queer the pitch of his
successor. On the contrary if the
meeting endorsed his leadership he
expected more loyalty than had
been shown in the past few months.
Baldwin then retired from the
meeting amid loud applause. At
the conclusion of the meeting, a
resolution of confidence in Baldwin
was unanimously passed.
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HEAVY  FINES   FOR  SOLLOWAY
AND MILLS
TORONTO, Oct. 89—W. O. Solloway and Harvey Mills of the defunct teokerage firm of Solloway,
Mills and Company today pleaded
guilty to a charge of "bucketing"
before Mr. Justice Jeffrey in the
Criminal Assizes. Solloway was
fined $200,000 on this count and
Mills $50,000. The other two
charges which they were facing
were conspiracy to defraud the
public and conspiracy to affect
the market price of stocks. Having
been tried on these charges in
Calgary and found guilty these were
dropped by the Ontario Court.
GUARD   FOR   NEW   BRAZILIAN
LEADER
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 29—
Extreme precautions were taken
today to safeguard the life of Dr.
Getulio Vargas proceeding to
Ciudad, Sao Paulo, and Rio de
Janeiro to assume control of the
Brazilian Government. Despite
victory of the revolution and almost
phenomenal popularity of the man
it was felt by revolutionary leaders
that there still are elements which
question his designation by the
military Jaunta which deposed
President Luis, as the logical figure
for the Presidency.
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LATE NEWS OF BLOODY BATTLE
NEW YORK, Oct. 30.—It was
learned today that in bloody battle
of the Sengues bgidgehead, October
15 to 20, thousands lost their
lives. The news of the battle was
held up by censorship at the time.
Many are reported lost also in a
wrecked train which crashed into
a   ravine   a   fortnight   ago   near
Inginiero Schamer station.
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THE PLIGHT OF SUGAR-
PRODUCING COLONIES
LONDON, Oct. 29—A Council of
the Sugar Federation of the Empire
has submitted to delegates of the
Imperial Conference a memorandum declaring that the constructive sugar policy in operation in
the Empire in recent years as far
as it has gone has been an undoubted success, but that the policy
today is imperilled not only by the
universal depression but particularly by the action of other countries which, influenced by the importance of the sugar industry In
their general economic scheme,
have embarked on sugar policies
even more advanced and certainly
more aggressive than ours; also,
temporarily, by the remarkable
start of Java sugar production
secured by the combined effect
of advanced research and cheap
labour. The extent to which the
railing off of most foreign countries has left the so-called world
market a mere residual market for
dumping surplus sugar and has
reacted with especial severity upon
the producers In British sugar-
growing colonies. These, unlike
the sugar-growing dominions, have
no home markets for which they
produced in the first Instance and
which rely upon preference only
for further expansion of their production by cheaper disposal of
their surplus stock.
These sugar producing countries,
although producing sugar at lower
cost in the Empire, are passing
through a grave crisis and are now
in such a serious condition that It
is uncertain just how long they can
survive. "The Oouncii believes
that, instead of allowing a successful policy to be frustrated by outside action, it will be well worth
while to consider whether the time
has not come for such further increase in preference as will enable
the Empire production to continue
steadily, with the Inevitable consequence which increased production   brings,   namely,   the   price
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PERSONxiL^
The Hon. H. D. Butterfieid ahd
Mrs. Butterfieid arrived on Wednesday by the S.s. Oropesa after a
holiday spent in England and Ireland.
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Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Gosling and
their two children returned on
Wednesday after a summer in
England and on the Continent.
Mr. Gosling has enjoyed much
yachting during his vacation and
took part in the International
Yacht Races in Norway.
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Captain and Mrs. Gerald Gray
were among the passengers by the
Oropesa.
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Mr. and Mrs. George Orampton
have returned to their Bermuda
home, St. Valerie, after their usual
summer abroad.
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Mrs   J. P.  Hand has retufbed'
after a summer spent in the States
and England.    Her many friends
will be glad to know she is frilly
restored to health.
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Naval and military passengers -by
the Oropesa Included Lt. Comdr.
Neish, Major J. W. Owen, Capt. G.
Wilson, and Capt. D. M. O. Fol-
jambe, all of whom are joining the
garrison here.
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Local residents returning included Mr. and Mrs. Martin Godet, Mrs.
W. Cardy Bluck, Mrs. John Bluck,
Miss Helen Tr mingham, and Mr.
Arthur Blake.
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Mr. and Mrs. Read aie taking
"Through   the    Wood"   fe*   the
sea on.    Mrs. Read is a sister of«
Mrs. Cardy Bluck.
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Mrs. Rita Byrd, a regular and
welcome winter visitor, arrived by
the Oropesa and has gone to her
home in Somerset.
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Arriving by the Lady Somers
were Mr. Henry D. DunkleyI**.,.
and his bride', who was formerly
Miss Winifred Hurlow, daughter of
the Rev. W. J. Hurlow and Mrs..
Hurlow.
The Royal Gazette and ColonisP
Daily joins in the good wishes for
their future happiness.
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BRIDE AND GROOM
ARRIVE TODAY
Arriving this morning on the
Veendam are Mr. and Mrs. Gerald
Leroy Harnett, bride and groom,
who were recently married at
Pawling, N. Y. The wedding took
place on Thursday, Oct. 23rd, in
the Methodist Episcopal Church,
the Rev. Robert Knapp officiating
at the simple but beautiful ceremony. The bride was Miss Mildred
Louise Stark, of Pawling. She was
given In marriage by her uncle,
Dr. Howard Wallace Brown. She
was charmingly gowned in cinnamon chiffon, large lace bertha,
cinnamon shoes, brown velvet hat,
and carried a bouquet of Talisman roses tied with brown velvet.
The Matron of Honour was Mrs.
Fredrick de Hart, sister of the bride.
She wore a gown of green lace,
green shoes and hat and carried a
bouquet of yellow chrysanthemums.
The groom was attended by his
brother-in-law, Mr. John Gianella,
of Brooklyn, as best man. The
ushers were Messrs. Frederick de
Hart and Henry Murphy. After
the ceremony a reception for sixty
guests was held at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Coleman. Mrs.
Coleman is an aunt of the bride.
Mr. Gerald Harnett is one of the
popular young business men of
Bermuda and has long been associated with his father, of Messrs.
Harnet and Richardson, in the
steamship offices of the Royal
Mail in Hamilton.
THEY SAY
That the  Exhibition  surprised  a
good many people.
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That the organisers deserve a lot of
credit.
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T^iat the House is having an easy
start.
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That it Is only the lull before the
sjstorm.
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#That the Estimates may prove
-rultful of debate.
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That presenting  them  late  is  a
pretty effective method for curtailing criticism.
aaa
That a local aviator is to re-intro-
.   duce flying here.
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That beautiful as Bermuda is from
sea  or   land,  it  is   even   more
."' beautiful from the air.
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That Broadway used to be quiet
Uttle spot ih New York.
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That now it is really Uvely.
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.That if it isn't a clash with Communists, it is a dayUght robbery
that enlivens the dull moments
of the Great White Way.
That anyhow  the  .story  removes
j   one common impression.
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That it was reported everyone had
§   lost  everything [in  the  market
crash.
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That  yet  there   was   $200,000  in
charge of a negro porter.
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That the Dredger Loan did not find
favour here.
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-That the reason Is simple.
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That it was not a Timbuctoo loan.
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That distance lends enchantment
to the investment.
That   St.   George's  makes   merry
tonight.
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That Hallowe'en is just as good as
any other excuse for putting on
a good show.
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That there was a lovely shed-wireless last night.
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That ft began with the announcement that the Do-X had started.
That graduaUy it worked up to the
airship being off St. George's.
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That then a real operator had it in
the harbour.
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That It was discovered that a flying
boat   had  been   landed   by   the
Lady Somers.
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That life would be duU without
imagination.
AN INTERESTING
EXHIBITION
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THE R101 INQUIRY
Further revelations were made
yesterday at the resumed inquiry
into the disaster to the R 101. The
Solicitor-General quoted Irwin's
report which said that after three
trial flights in July he found the
airship "heavy" and the outer cover
"flapping considerably."
A number of smaU holes appeared
In the gasbag and Irwin suspected
the gas valves were affected.
Professor Bairstow gave a long
and technical explanation ln which
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"THE HOLY CITY"
TONIGHT
Our readers are reminded that
this most tuneful Cantata, which
was composed fox the Birmingham
Musical Festival in 1882, is to be
given in Wesley Church, HamUton,
tonight at 8 o'clock, by a large
augmented choir of 50 voices.
Mr. Norman Parker wiU preside
at the organ and there wiU be several excellent soloists, including Mrs.
Norman Parker, Mrs. OUver Spurling, Mr. A. F. Selby, who was formerly solo Tenor o! Portsmouth
Cathedral, and Rev. T. M. Salmon-
he described the differences between a Zeppelin and the R 100
and R 101 types.
A sensation was caused when
the Attorney General announced
that a document had been picked
up in France which was obviously
a sheet from the engine log of one
of the airship's car units wherein
the last entry had been made at
2 a.m. on the morning of the disaster. The entry read "engine
revolutions   normal."
It had previously been announced
that aU logs had been burned ,and
relatives of the crew had been asked
to forward any private letters
received from men aboard containing any reference to the flight.
ACTING   GOVERNOR   MAKES
DELIGHTFUL   OPENING
ADDRESS
Large Crowd Appreciates Useful and
Effective Display
Bermuda's first radio, electrical,
and talking-machine exhibition,
staged in the Bank of Bermuda
BuUding, was opened yesterday by
His ExceUency the Acting Governor, the Hon. E. W. Evans. The exhibition was remarkable for its
comprehension, and to its promoter, Major Cookson, great credit
Is due.
As the Acting Governor, accompanied by Mrs. Evans, entered
the exhibition room, a phonograph
record of the National Anthem was
played. The Bishop of Bermuda
was among those present.
In a clever speech, the Acting
Governor declared the exhibition
open. He said the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce had done him
the honour of asking him to open
that exhibition, the first of its
kind in Bermuda. It was an
invitation that he accepted with
special pleasure and alacrity,
for two reasons. He accepted
firstly because it gave him an
opportunity of being associated
with a remarkable demonstration
of Bermuda enterprise, and secondly because he supposed he had been
asked to open the exhibition on
account of the official position he
happened to be occupying, and he
was really on an official holiday,
because science in general and
electricity in particular were very
far removed from governmental
affairs and procedure, which were
essentiaUy non-political. So he
could get away from shop, at any
rate, his particular form of shop,
and expressed himseU without fear
of transgressing the canons of
official discretion, and he need not
enter into difficult exercises in
circumlocution for fear or letting
an official cat out of an official bag.
(Laughter.)
The objects of the exhibition were
to demonstrate to the pubUc the
general use and adaptabUity of
electricity. Electricity played an
immensely important part in everyday life, but it was a subject on
which he was the last person present competent to speak, as it was
altogether left out of his education. After explaining that a few
days previously he had taken the
precaution of seeing Major Cookson
—to whose .nU and energy the
exhibition owed much (Hear, hear)
—for instruction in electrical matters, His Excellency said that perhaps the most far-reaching result
of the development of electricity
would be that in time to come so
much of the drab and irksome
drudgery on which the ordinary
individual expends himself, and
which takes such an enormously
large sHce out of our time, might
be so cut out or reduced that it
would be possible to make the present 24-hour day go as far as a 36-
hour day, thus leaving so much
more time for doing the things
really worth whUe, and really
worth doing, and producing the
things worth producing, and doing
them better than we did now.
"I am a great believer in leisure,"
said His Excellency. "I am inclined to think —tat the reason why
in pre-scientlftc and pre-electrical
centuries the peoples seemed more
fortunate peoples, and carried the
art of living to such a stage of perfection, was simply because their
work—or perhaps I should say,
their dirty work— was done for
them by slaves, and they did not
have to bother with it. Perhaps
with the extension of electrical
development, our chUdren, or our
grandchildren, may recovers ome
of those advantages, without the
disadvantages, which the old slave
owning societies enjoyed.
See Atwater JCent Sets Today.    Radio  Show — WADSON'S
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"I think it is rather fortunate
that this exhibition co-incides with
the time when it is proposed to
substitute i.c.w. for spark transmission at the wireless station at
St. George's. I beUeve that is a
change which wiU be particularly
welcomed by the pubUc, to judge
from the expressions of one rather
embittered critic—who shaU be
nameless—who speaking to me &
few days ago described the station
as the greatest pest in Bermuda.
(Laughter, and hear, hear.) This
exhibition also co-incides with the
time when it is proposed to Unk
us with the American Continent
by wireless telephone. I feel confident that this exhibition wiU be
of immense interest and value."
Thanks to His Excellency were
moved by Mr. A. J. Gorham, who
referred to the interest the Acting
Governor had taken in Bermuda
affairs since he arrived here—in
sport and in other things for the
good of all.
Little Miss Joan Aitken presented
Mrs. Evans with a beautiful basket
of flowers.
ROUND THE EXHIBITS
The entire top floor of the Branch
of the Bank of Bermuda is taken
up with the booths of the exhibitors.
Not many in number, but large in
class of exhibits and surpassing in
the energy of demonstration and'
explaining by the exhibitors wares.
The room presents a pretty picture,
both the beauty of the exhibits and
the simple yet effective decorations
add to the homelike feeling of the
whole floor. Besides the exhibits,
the exhibitors take a large share
of the honours so far as the success of the next two days go, for
they are on hand and ready to go
into the minutest detaU for the
benefit of each and every visitor.
First on the left as you enter,
Robert D. Aitken, whose slogan,
"Everything E ectrical for the
Home," is so well known in Bermuda, has the booth, then comes
the Bermuda Trading Company,
then Wadson's with two large enclosures, after which Chesley White
is showing a line of Majestic Radios.
The Telephone Company is also
there with Mr. Ferguson and assistants in action, explaining everything, and next that booth is Mr.
J. J. BusheU who is showing his
acousticon. The Radio Store has the
next space, and then tbe Electric
Light Company with two booths.
It is only when an exhibition
of this kind is under way that the
housewives come into their own,
and one predicts that the attendance at this show wUl be made up
largely of women who are interested
in labour-saving devices for the
home. And certainly they wiU find
it,[for there is practically everything
on display that is necessary in
housework, aU run by electric current. A great factor is an exact
knowledge of the amount of current used in the various pieces of
machinery. Washing machines and
dish-washers were gre^ilyjadmired
during yesterday morning and the
demonstrators were1 kept busy pUing
cups and saucers, plates and knives
and forks Into the receptacles for
automatic cleansing. Some of
these machines are indeed remarkable for their almost human handling of tableware. Vacuum cleaners
are also well to the fore in popularity
and there are so many radios and
talking machines that the exhibitors are compeUed to take turns
in any demonstration that means
the switching on of sound. Otherwise the effect would be deafening.
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