St. John's Daily Star, 1920-01-19

              The st. John's Daily Star yoiTvi (PRICE: One Cent.); Our Average Daily Circulation NovemberB,Bll ""^*^m~~~*****^******,*'**~m''~*mm,-*'---m~*-^^ MONDAY, JANUARY 19M920 •: __._ '--J- ■ ThE WLATHER Probst Gales; Snow. ■^—-*—«■——-»———■■■>__,__,,,_——w^____________j__________j ($3.00 per Annum.) $807.000 OFR FAVORED TORY OUARTETTE CASHIN AND CHEAP BONDS—CASHIN FAMTI v ac Rnwn amTmiac aitt ,k, TTr- ~ZZ —— , ■*—«x *.»_s_ hi -: _, _ 11*1 ii I /% _ « [ Jv yI Xl 11/ jrv V Jlx rx .. x_s_s Ax IxlA%I xl I f\ I I. Ivi I—4 I-. Ix I I—. \¥ / V -—>—.—-— — _ _>-_- __*-■ —_— a - __#_ v v_x x xi_4i\w"i ii ~i #ii ~i liikj vvij r ii ~■ i ■ ■r- ixi ~r* \aj ~' HAS KILLED NAVY MORALE Admiral Simms Complains to U. S. Naval Secretary Of "Flagrant Injustices/ MONTRF.AL, Jan. 17—A special ' "despatch to The Montreal Gazette from Washington says Admiral S- Siims of the Navy War College and formerly in commond of American forces in Lurope, asserted before the senate naval affairs commission yesterday that the morale of the American navy has been shot to pieces because ol "flagrant inius^ices." In a formal statement the admiral «et forth that departmental censorship prevented constiuctivc criticism and that as a result the United States naVSfwas trailing those of other nation?! The admiral especially resented the action of Secretary Daniels and board in recommendations submitted by himself. The recommendations inserted by Dr. Daniels included one for his brother-in-law commissioner, David Worth Eagley, wso lost the destroyer he commanded in a fight with a submarine, had been greeted with ridicule throughout the navy, the admiral asserted. ROUTE IS CHANGED White Star Liners to Call at Australia and Argenba for Wheat London, Jaji. 18—The White Star Liner recently built for the North Atlantic route was by order of the shipping controller transferred to the Australian service. The Times now fore shadows other transfers from North Atlantic lines both to Australia ancT Argentine for wheat cargoes. FILMS STEEL PLANT Sheffield Steel Plants Are Filmed And Will Be Used At Advertising London, Jan. 18—Sheffield has filmed its steel manufacturing plants and the result is a strikingly fine advertisement for the city's industries. It will be exhibited in 86 principal town of Europe, America and overseas dominions and dependencies. The Argyle left Haystack at 3.30 p.m. Saturday. LETTS REPULSE BOLSHEVIKI AND TAKE VILLAGES Copenhagen, Jan. 18—Bolshevik, are throwing large forces on Lettish border, including Chinese Regiments, says a despatch to the official Lettish bureau from Riga. The Letts, everywhere, says the despatch, have repulsed enemy's powerful counter-at tacks, with numerous enemy loss es and captured a number of villages on the advance on Rejesshitza.ADMIRAL JELLICOE CALLED TO ENGLAND Urgent Matters Force Famous British Officer to Abandon His Naval Tour Rio Janeiro, Jan. 1 7—Admiral Viscount Jellicoe, former first lord of the British Admiralty, has receiv ed an urgent call to England, and for that reason has cancelled his visit to Brazil and Argentine. This announcement was made by the minister of marine to-day, following the receipt of a message from the admiral. Sir Robert Borden, Canadian Premier, was to have sailed to South Africa with the admiral's party, but no word was received as to Sir Robert's plans in the circumstances. OLD COMRADES MEET. The C.C.C. Old Comrades met again yesterday afternoon when the enrollment of members took place. Some twenty members were enrolled and the membership is now in the vicinity of three hundred. The club rooms were opened yesterday for the first time and from tonight will be opened each evening, for the benefit of the members, until 10.30 p.m. S. S. Noordam, which The Star stated on Saturday as coming to this port fo rcoal has been ordered. to Halifax, as a supply could not be obtained here. .The S.S. Sheba is at present at Norn Sydney loading freight for this port. She will probably leave there today. PREMIERS AT LOGGERHEADS Allied Leaders Not in Complete Accord as to Deal ings With Russia. PARIS, Jan. 18—The prime ministers of the allied it appears, are not in entire accord respecting decision upon a limited opening of trade with Russia. Lloyd George proposed the measure seemingly to conciliate the labor forthat the decision would have a good effect upon the political opinion In Italy where a good deal of bolshevilci is reported. "V ._*; Mr. Judson Bartlett of the Western Union stafl, Bay Roberts, is at present in the city on a visit, and is a guest of the Balsam. The S=.S. Clyde arrived from Port Union on Saturday with a cargo of codfish in casks. ; i Mr. A. G. Hynes, travelling salesman for Claflin, Thayer & Co., arrived by the Rosalind on a business trip. He represents one of the largest boot and shoe firms in New York. He ieft here about 2 Byears ago, being formerly a resident of Little Bay Islands.HERE'S ANOTHER $1500.00 A city supporter of the government hands The Star his cheque for $1500, and offers the following bets. $500.00 Squires will be elected. $500.00  $500.00 Linegar will be last on the poll. THAT $5000 BET STAR EAST WEEK IS STIli UNCOVERED. WHY THEY'RE ENTHUSIASTIC VV7 HAT enthusiasts some of ™ of these tory campaign-. ers are, to be sure! to be sure!! | They're on the job, day and night, in storm and in calm, leaving no stone unturned in their efforts to defeat Squires and Brownrigg. What devotion to the attainment of an object! No, not selfdevotion to an ideal, but devotion to the selfishness that demands war. to the knife against » the leaders of the party that sent the tory party down to defeat in the general election jn November last. , There's the whole explanation The little Tommy Tuckers* of; the Tory party are bemoaning, their lost banquets. They feasted long on the fat of the land. ( They gorged themselves on the good things of office. Or.'y'the! crumbs that fell from their table went to the ordinary people of the country. Four of the tory campaigners, four of the men who are taking a leading part in the campaign against Squires and Brownrigg in the district of St. John's West, got no less than $807,000 out of the old government up to the, time of its defeat by the Liberal Reform party. Nothing so wonderful, then, about the strenuous efforts of this quartette to be avenged on the public man whose campaign, whose abilities and whose organization drove them and their friends from office in the gencal election. Mr. James Spratt, of, Spratt Bros., for instance, doubtless feels more than a little grieved when he remembers that the success of the Libral Reform party in driving himself and his friends into opposition, meant the loss to his firm of tens of thousands of dollars in government orders. For, up to the time of the defeat of the old government in November, Spratt Bros, had received from the public departments orders totalling 70,227,--21.Mr. ames Spratt evidently considers that a political outfit that was so liberal to him and his concern in their days in power is an outfit that should be championed now that the winds of political misfortune have smitten it so hardly. Mr. Spratt is manifesting his gratitude for the practical favors bestowed upon him by the tory government and is enthusiastically anxious to do something to help that outfit back to power (Continued on page 2) WHY NOT TELL THE TRUTH ? THE NEWS of this morning contains a couple of articles on the fish export reguLui ms, which are a tissue of falsehoods from beginning to end. The morning organ of the opposition makes a great flare-up over what it calls "reprisals" threatened by the American government because Smith & Shipman, citizens of the United States, were n6t allowed to ship their fish in defiance of the regulations of the Newfoundland authorities. The statement of The News in this connection is absolutely incorrect. The American government made no such threats. The only official connection "of the American government in connection with this matter was an inquiry from the U. S. consul as te the Smith & Shipman case. Presumably, the information sup-1 plied by the Newfoundland .authorities was forwarded jto Washington. But, no communications, offcial or otherwise, have passed between the Newfoundland land the American authorities on the subject of the fish export regulations. The statement of The I News as to a protest and as .to threats from the American government in connection witk the Smith & Shipma cas#l| a yarn manufactured in tory circles and i without any foundation in jfact whatsoever. Just another case of The News going out of its way to misrepresent and to deceive in order that its-own f1 miserable political case and that of its party bosses may be bolstered up. The News also keeps up its lies, vilification and abuse about the the effect of the fish export regulations on the European markets. • The opposition organ says we have not been able to sell in Italy and in Spain, because of the regulations. That statement is utterly false, The agents of the Newfoundland trade, Hawes & Co., have sold absolutely and received the money for fifty thousand quintals of our fish. They have sold that fish to the consorzio. The consorzio has intimated to Hawes & Co, that it is prepared to purchase one hundred and fifty thousand quintals additional, if the Newfoundland trade can supply it. The consorzio is purchas ing fish in accordance with the Newfoundland fish regulations, paying the price set by the Newfoundland trade and keeping to the stipulations made generally by the Newfoundland authorities. Moreover, the consorzio is paying Hawes & Co. full price for the fish it contracts to buy. One hundred per cent, value is handed over to Hawes & Co., who pay the shipper eighty per cent, immediately and the balance of twenty per cent, is held by Hawes & Co. This balance is to offset any allowance that must be made on account of inferiorinferior fish. But Hawes & Co., our own agents hold the money and must first agree before the consorzio can secure one cent by way of allowances ior claims they make against shippers. That, it must be admitted, is better for shippers. than being entirely at the mercy of the consorzio, hay ing the combine make alj| sorts of complaints and de: mands and being powerless to obtain from the Consorzio one cent more than it is prepared to pay. In view of these facts, therefore, it is very evident that the News belies the whole situation when it states that the consorzio have beaten the government. As a matter of fact, the Newfoundland government has beaten the cosorzio ad has won from it every material point it demanded.The News statement about cessation of sales in Italy is, as we have shown, false. We are marketing two hundred thousand quintals in that country and on our own terms. Equally misrepresentative is t)ie reference of the News to the Spanish market. Sales in that country have not been hindered to the smallest degree by the fish regulations. Before the regulations went into effect old fish was sold to the Spanish dealers. It reached Spain just at the time new rfish was comingin. It upset the market and delayed sales, because Spanish deal ers demanded the new fish at the same low price at which old and unsuitable fish had, necessarily, to be marketed. But the News and the whole tory gang knows* that both Italy and Spain have to buy fish in usual quantaties. They have .to. buy their fish from Newfoundland. And they have Ito buy their fish soon, because the Lenten season is at hand. Now, as to prices. The apparent price of fish to Spain is higher than shipments of fish to Italy. The real price of fish to Spain is lower than the price to Italy. Exchange with Spain is in favor of that country. Ifxchange with 'Italy is much against that country. Fish is costing the Italian consumer over onethird more than it is costing the Spanish cosumer. We shall soon expect to hear Smith $: Shipman appeal to someone to save them from their friends. The. News certainly sets them in a false light before the world. Smith &.Shipman assuredly have received no such concessions as the News declares. They get their fish out subject to the terms of the agreement the government submitted to them some time ago. Simply that and nothing more. What a pity it is the News just will not tell the DON'T TRUST THE GRAFTERS, THEY BLED YOU BEFORE. ] THE FATHER OF LIES? VV7 HENEVER CASHIN ** makes a public utterance either in a speech or letter he knocks the truth endways. He made a speech in the Casino theatre last spring in which he stated that Mr. Coaker h~d fish on the Escasoni. It was subsequently proved that Cashin lied, and what is more that he knew what he stated in the Casino speech was untrue.In this morning's News Sir, Michael Cashin says that he raised half the million dollars which Mr. Brownrigg is now taking credit for raising at such a small cost. In this Sir Michael again lies. It is quite true that Sir Michael and his friends had filed applications at the Finance Office for several hundred thousand dollars but when Brownrigg refused to give these people their bonds at 97% to the hundred they refused to take them up and i withdrew their applications, j It is said that Sir Michael Cashin in collusion with a firm of brokers applied for $200,000 of the million dollar loan. The rumor is that the whole j of this amount was subscribed by ISir Michael, the broker's firm merely acting as his agents. If this be correct why did Sir Michael think it necessary to 'camouflage his applications? Is it because people might !ask: Where did Sir MichaeF j Cashin get $200,000 to invest in bonds in addition to the large And the question may be asked: Where and how did Sir Michael make such a big fortune in such a short time? If that question were address- \ ed to the captains of wrecked j steamers, to insurance underwri-, ter* some light might be thrown | on the means by which Sir Michael amassed his fortune. tAdditional information may obtained from the public records at no distant date. And a Mr. Hartery of the Southern Shore may be able to give some particulars of alleged smuggling transactions in which the names of Sir Michael Cashin and a well-known druggist werei associated some few years ago,' and Sir Michael will undoubtc \ly be aole to explain why the action which was begun in connection therewith was abandoned. How long such shady transactions were going on, and to what extent the parties interested benr efitted at the expense of the ascertained before the present government finishes with its investigation into the political rascalities of its predecessors in office.As regards Sir Michael's application for bonds. It would have been good business Icr him to have taken that $200,000 if he had remained Minister of Finance and sold them to himself betow par making"the taxpayers of this colony pay for thenu. at par. There seems to be good reason for suspicion that Sir Michael aimed at graft :n connection with the loan in c,t.u/.'on ***-* is and that he stood to -:.dd vc y considerably to his easily acquired wealth had he i fft returned to continue his peculiar admvnistration of the pubKc affairs of this country. The Star invites him to explain the circumstances under >which he paid membejs of .his cwn fami'y laige sums of public money as commission on the sale (Continued on page 2) MILLION LOST IN TWO FIRES —1— ■ ■ Calgary and Buffalo Stmm of Two Disastrous Mid Winter Blazes. £ALGARY, Jan 18—Two men, ThoU Huckville of Gleichen, and J. fcßride of Youngstown, were suffo-J ated to death and five firemen, more] or less seriously injured with a loss' sustained of nearly half a milllion dolors in a fire which destroyed the Em ue Hotel and Grarid , Central Hdtt| and three stores Sunday morning. lhe remainder of a hundred ockl ' quests escaped in their night clothes bitter cold weather. Big Blaze at Buffalo Buffalo, N.Y., Jan 18—Buildings of the Buffalo Evening Times were ■urned today. The damage to -ffjjft' .vening Times and adjoining buildings will reach half a million dollars. ( Firemen were handicapped in their •.ght by below zero weather. THE WEST END COUNT. i i_n Many Requests are Made to Hare j|fi| Returns Shown in Post Office Window. The Star has been asked by sev- h eral citizens to suggest to the Re-lj turning Officer the advisability of |j his arranging with the postal depart-ftmerit to have the West End count j| bulletined in the windows of thej; G.P.O. as were the general returns jj in November last. The present location of the J' countingroom is too far out of tne|; way for people and citizens general ally expect to get the returns with-jj out having to walk up to the head?' of Hamilton Avfe. There should be no trouble, to«r-p range the matter and the Star-] feels sure the Postmaster General, ■' Hon. W.W. Halfyard would Be only » ; too pleased to make all's the nec.es- ' 'sary arrangements in this respect. ' The Star draws the attention of all parties concerned to this matter and hopes the public will be given j the consideration they request. —  REIDS' SHIPS No. UH The Kyle left St. John s at 12.15 I p.m. Saturday. The Meigle has not been reported | leaving North Sydney. The Petrel is at Heart's Contents i The Sagona is at St. John's. The meeting of the Llewellyn Bible Club tonight will take the form of a , smoker followed by a general discus-: sion on the inter-denominational question.  1 More I New Arrivals I I RJftn'c. 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