London Evening Advertiser
- Vast Crowd Witnesses Spectacle
- Year In Jail For Illegal Entry Here
- MOB PREVENTS OPENING OF SCHOOLS IN MEXICO
The London Evening Advertiser describes the opening of St. Peter's Seminary's new building as a major religious and civic occasion, with a sermon against materialism and militarism and attendance exceeding 5,000. Its police-court report details James Edward Durham's imprisonment, fine and planned deportation after his guilty plea to illegal entry. A dispatch attributed to El Universal reports attacks on teachers and the obstruction of government schooling in Tonala, followed by the dispatch of troops.
This is a partial edition covering three selected articles. Unrelated column fragments, illegible strings and the neighboring school-health and railway items embedded in the supplied OCR are excluded. Contrary to A's general note about complete paragraph boundaries, the readable Durham excerpt ends mid-sentence after “he”; that unfinished sentence is retained without reconstruction. The exact statutory basis for his sentence, including the $250 fine and additional default imprisonment, remains unidentified. Explicit [?] marks occur in excluded OCR debris, not in the retained article text.
Translation
Vast Crowd Witnesses Spectacle
Lieut.-Governor of Ontario Is Among Notables at Impressive Service.
COLORFUL SCENE
Mayor and Civic Officials, Church Dignitaries and University Authorities Present.
Striking a significant note bearing on the mad whirl of materialism and militarism which engulfed the world and pointing to the spiritual and peaceful pursuits of the priesthood, the Most Rev. John J. Glennon, archbishop of St. Louis, this morning preached the sermon at the formal opening of the new St. Peter's Seminary.
The sermon was preceded by the celebration of pontifical mass sung by the Rt. Rev. M. F. Fallon, bishop of London, who fathered the scheme which culminated in the rising of the classic building in Sunshine Park.
The ceremonies were the seventh of a series incorporated into Catholic Centennial Week, which opened here Sunday.
Favored by a bright day, the ceremonies drew more than 5,000 persons. Among these were His Honor the Lieutenant-Governor, Col. Henry Cockshutt; Mayor J. M. Moore and city officials, members of the headquarters staff of Military District No. 1, representatives of the board of governors, the senate, administration staff and instructors of the University of Western Ontario, the public utilities commission, the board of education and civic bodies.
Colorful Procession.
The event was graced by the presence of the archbishop, and approximately 12 bishops, 150 priests and monsignors. Nearly 100 sisters, together with 53 seminarians and an equal number of choir boys, were present.
Year In Jail For Illegal Entry Here
J. E. Durham Given Stiff Sentence in Local Police Court Today.
WILL BE DEPORTED
Is Also Fined $250, With Three Months Additional in Default.
Pleading guilty to illegal entry into Canada, James Edward Durham, 25, English, was sentenced by Magistrate Graydon this morning to one year in the common jail, together with a fine of $250 with three months additional in default of payment, and at the conclusion of this sentence deportation to England.
Crown Attorney A. M. Judd, who prosecuted, with the charge being laid by D. H. Reynolds, traveling immigration officer from Ottawa, asked for the maximum sentence in view of Durham's past career, embracing bigamy, twice jailed for theft, and more than once deported from both Canada and the United States for efforts to enter the country illegally.
Mr. Judd informed the court that Durham originally came to Canada as a boy at 12 years of age. A short time after he went to western Canada, where he was in jail for theft of a bicycle and a pair of shoes in Winnipeg and Regina and where, in June, 1924, he
MOB PREVENTS OPENING OF SCHOOLS IN MEXICO
Rioting at Government Institutions.
Mexico City, Sept. 29.—El Universal reports that a mob armed with stones, sticks and guns, prevented the opening of government schools in Tonala, State of Jalisco.
It is said that Professor Genaro Rodriguez and two women teachers were stoned when they arrived in Tonala to resume teaching. They were forced to abandon the town, because the Roman Catholics there opposed teaching by laymen.
Troops have been sent to Tonala.
Context
A seminary opening linked to London's civic centenary
The new building expanded an institution founded in 1912, initially housed in the rectory beside St. Peter's Cathedral; local businessman Philip Pocock donated the Sunshine Park property. Catholic Centennial Week linked the seminary dedication with the opening of Brescia Hall, the reopening of renovated churches and the laying of the cornerstone for a hospital nurses' home during London's civic centenary. These events placed Catholic institutions for education, worship and hospital staff within the city's anniversary celebrations. Against that setting, the newspaper's attendance list—municipal officials, military staff, university representatives and public boards—suggests that the seminary ceremony publicly connected Catholic education with the city's wider leadership.
Why imprisonment could precede deportation
The 1910 Immigration Act distinguished unlawful entry from entering, remaining in or returning to Canada after rejection or deportation without a permit or other lawful excuse. Section 42(4) made the latter an offence punishable by imprisonment of up to two years, with possible renewed deportation immediately after the sentence. Imprisonment could therefore punish an immigration offence while removal followed as a separate consequence. This framework helps explain the significance of the previous deportations emphasized by Durham's prosecutor, although the article does not identify the provision used in his case. The reported $250 fine and three additional months for nonpayment cannot be explained by the quoted subsection alone.
School attendance as a religious and political battleground
Resistance to secular schooling formed part of organized Catholic opposition in Jalisco in 1926. A historical study drawing on state archives records that a resistance program of the National League for the Defense of Religious Liberty circulated widely in the state that year, instructing Catholics to avoid secular schools and teach catechism at home. Withdrawing children from school thus belonged to a broader campaign of religious resistance, alongside restrictions on spending and entertainment. This connects the Tonala report to a struggle over who would educate children and direct their religious upbringing. The newspaper, citing El Universal, attributes the local attack to opposition to lay teachers; the wider campaign illuminates those stakes without establishing who organized this particular violence.
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Vast Crowd Witnesses Spectacle
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