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Modern.
Etiquette. Tired of rush-hour trans
hold=ups? Fed up with read ob.
strUptiens, pedestrian crossings,
traffic so, eligltsre,s some and rest? I
cheering
news for those of you- who ex,
pest to be alive in the year
2000. Ay then, says United
sletya.tetrsaffiroeadtanegxpeserwt
ill Dave avA
uecelc. .n
banished, traffic blocks will be
only
been
lye a memory, into the
future and studying the dream
highways that all go-ahead
countries will have built by the
turn of the century. And what
he sees makes exciting reading
for all road-users — especially
motorists
lAmerica and elsewhere
there will be fine expressways
specially ,built 'for ultra-modern
cars, These special roads will
by-pass all big cities or will be
built so that it will hardly he
necessary for the drivers
slow down,
These major roads will have
no traffic lights. Opposing traf-
fic will be separated as on the.
German autobahnen. One-way
streets and highways will be
the rule.
Snow, sleet? Don't worry. It
will melt as it strikes the spe-
cial roadways. Headlights? They
won't be needed on the major
roads, all, of which will have
"daylight" illumination.
Cities and big towns. will have
wonderful three-level highways.
All cars will be parked under,-
ground. New big office buildings
-.will have sloping-ramp parking
„facilities on each floor. And
when a car breaks down — yes,
that may happen occasionally,
even in the year 2000 -- along
will come a helicoRter and
whisk it away.
Nose For Clues
Sir Bernard Spilsbury, the
famous pathologist, used all his
natural gifts when investigating
a murder, including his sense
of smell. lie would not allow
anybody to smoke at a' post-
mortem because he said it pre-
vented him from smelling some-
thing which might give him a
valuable clue, such as the dis-
tinctive smell of certain poisons
in the body.
The, sense of smell has a long
memory and can bring back for-
gotten scenes with extraordin-
ary vividness, but it has certain
drawbacks. In sickness or
weakness it is easily destroyed
and mistakes can be made.
It is also impaired by snif-
fing certain mixtures. A witness
who boasted of his keen sense
of smell was disconcerted by a
lawyer who first gave him a
bottle of gasoline to smell and
then other bottles of vinegar
and other liquids. After smell-
ing the gasoline the witness was
eulnsaeh le to recognize anything
In 1904 a murder was com-
mitted in Berlin and the body
was burned by the killer, with
the result that there was a
ghastly odour of burned flesh, in
the neighbourhood. A year
later there was another murder
in the same area but at a dif- ,
ferent address; and before the
body was found many people
in the district claimed that they
could smell the odour of burn-
ed flesh.
The smell was strongest in
the neighbourhood of the first
murder. Eventually it was
found that the body had been
cut up and parts of it left in
places miles away. No part of it
had been touched by fire so the
people who thought they smelled
burned flesh must have imagin-
ed it.
of persons to when) one has just .
Q. How Should one take leave
been OltredliegcH
am very glad tO have met you."
A, You can say, "Good-by, ii
To one who has been especially
interesting, or who is somewhat
of a personage, youMay gay.
"It has been .a great pleasure
to meet you,"
Q. When a woman IS vicarial;
gloves, should she apologize for
not removing the right glovo
when she shakes hands?
any attempt to remove the
glove.
A, No; nor should she make
Q. If one is eating a steak or
something similar, isn't it .all
right to cut several mouthful's
at a time before eating?
bite at a time,
A, No; one should cut• a single
Q. Is it ever proper to use
the knife to cut the salad when
dining?
A. When it can be done easi-
ly, use just the fork, ,Sometimes,
however, lettuce can be tough
to manage, and in that case it is
quite all right to use the knife.
Q. If a man brings a, gift
when calling on a girl, sould
she open it immediately or lay it
aside until be has gone?
A. She would most certainly
show better manners and more
appreciation if she opened it' at
once..
Q. it proper to tip the 'hotel
doorman who lifts your hag
out of the taxi to the sidewalk!
A. No.
Q. Is it proper for a host 'or
hostess to interrupt some dis-
cussion among their guests?
A. Not if it is a friendly .dis-
cussion. However, if an embar-
rassing situation arises, or an
angered, discussion seems im-
minent, the host or hostess
should intervene with a quick
change of subject.'
Q. Should , a bride-elect mall
wedding invitations to friends
of the bridegroom who are un-
known to her?
A.9 Certainly. ,She and her
fiance should get together on
the, guest list before the Invita-
tions are ordered.
Q. I'S it correct- to write a
note wishing a eel happiness af-
ter reading the announcement of
he •engagement in the news-
paper?
A. Certainly; this is not only
correct, but it is a thoughtful
and gracious gesture of friend-
ship.
ROSE IS A ROSE Harry Wheat.
croft, known as "Mr. Rose" is
gardeners, sniffs. his latest
creation = the "Grcice de Mona,
co" rose. The flower named
after you-know-who, will be ex
hibited in London at the Cheise.
Flower show.
WON -."'.islUrseMary Louis, Steinke, right, shrieks with jay
after Winning the election for president 'Of the National Studer
Nurse! AiitiCiatiorts
THE FARM FRONT
No aspect of potato produc-
tion has received More OM-
merit in recent years than that
of quality. Mr. N. Parks of the
Central Experimental Farm,
says that quality in potatoes
may be divided into three cate-
gories, namely, food quality,
market qua y, and cook-
ing qualit y, The qauli-
ty in each of these three cate-
gories depends upon, and may
'be affected, by a large number
of factors: Two factors that
exert a profound influence on
potato quality- are; preparation
of the soil and fertilization of
the crop:
S
FISH STORY — NO'One Made a birdie but the' fish sure were
niblicking• at the •Metropolitan Beach golf course, near ,Mount
Clemens. Jvan Sayers, left, and James Kraft display fish found
in a sand trap near the 1 1 th green after gale-lashed waters
of lake St. Clair swept inland, washing ashore hundreds of
carp,
grades dropped to about 10,-
000 weekly. The average for the
whole year was about 11,600.
The increase ip feedlot• fatten-
ing of cattle supplies the market
during the winter, spring, and
early' summer. From then on,
grass fattened cattle predomin-
ate.
and the results have beep con-
sidered satisfactory, * * *
The problem of growing high
quality potatoes is complex.
The variety to grow,' the ma-
turity of the crop at harvest
time, methods of handling and
storage temperature are but a
few of the additional factors af-
fecting quality. Nevertheless,
experiments indicate that im-
portant factors are good -.soil
management and proper fertili-
zation of the crop. To accomp-
lish this the potato grower must
consider adopting a crop rota-
tion suitable for his district and
basing fertilization practices on
crop requirements, time of ap-
plication, and soil analysis.
* 4 *
The most significant feature
of the beef cattle industry in
Canada is the remarkable' in-
crease in the consumption of
beef. In 1955 Canadian. ate 72
pounds of beef per capita. This
is approximately 27 pounds or
37:5 per cent higher 'than the
per capita consumption figure
for 1952,
Last year the inspected kill -
of cattle, averaged 32,733 head,
per week and the beef cattle ex-
port for the whole year for
slaughter or for feeding was
about two per cent of the cattle
marketed in Canada. To date
this 'year cattle marketings. are
about 9 per cent over the tame
period in 1955. The inspected
kill has been, up an average of
2,760 cattle more per week than
a year ago.
This change in marketing de-
mands, has resulted in a• more
efficient use of pasture because
with an assured outlet right
through the pasture season there
is not the necessity, as was the
case at one time, of trying to,
reach the early market before
the' seasonal break in prices. In
other words there., is now a
steady outlet for the top grade
cattle right through the year. * * 4'
Last year. Canadian cattle
producers did a , good joh
shipping their cattle* into the
markets in about the 'right
numbers that •could be handled
in the domestic trade. This was
one of the main influences in
voluble man who promised him
the fortune he needed.
"Invest with me, and you'll
Arid yourself quickly the richer
for it," he promised. "There's
nothing like gold mines and I
control the finest In Western
Thus the solicitor, who should
have been more astute, fell for
the big talk of Whitaker
Wright, the financier whose
downfall shook the financial
city of London and brought
thousands to ruin,
Whitaker Wright was under
arrest, and creditors were press-
ing On all sides on the day that
Mr. Marshall set out for Lon-
don with his wife,
ror now the duke wanted an
accounting and his money had
gone except six £1,000 notes.
Desperate, 'banking on his high
standing to escape suspicion,the
hard-driven gambler had eked
the robbery.
George Marshall was duly
arrested by Berrett, and sent to
jail.
Starting, as all must, as a
uniformed constable, James Ber-
rett had not worn out his first
pair of boots on the beat when
bb earned the coveted riband of
the Royal. Humane Society for a
gallant rescue.
Now, by 1926, bearded and
looking just a bit like the late
King Edward VII, it was Chief
Inspector Berrett who went by
fast car, along with Sergeant
Harris, to assist the Essex po-
lice, following a request from
the Chief Constable of that,
county.
P.C. Gutteridge had been
found shot dead in a lonely
lane. That was fact No. 1. The
Morris-CoWley belonging to Dr.
Lovell, of Billericay, had been
stolen some hours earlier. That
was fact No. 2.
Was there any connection?
The answer came when the doc-
tor's car was found abandoned
in a Brixton passage. Blood
was on the running board, there
was a dented mudguard, grass,
dirt, and, more important, an
empty cartridge case.
Find the revolver from which
that bullet was fired and we
have the murderer, reasoned
Berrett.,
And even as the thought
crossed his mind a name flash-
ed up — Frederick Guy Bro,wn.
Brown was known to run a
phoney garage and to, deal in
stolen cars. He also had a rec-
ord as a ' violent •criminal.- -
He, was eventually arrested
in his Battersea garage; and
there the detectives found a
loaded Webley, skeleton keys,
a torch, jemmy and •doctor's in-
struments:, •
keeping prices at a fairly steady
level all year. Cattle prices in
Canada are related in a gene-
ral way to the price levels in
the. U.S.A. If there is a surplus -
of beef in Canada the Ameri-
can prices tend to create a'
level below which Canadian
prices do' not fall: If there is a
shortage in. Canada the cost of
cattle or beef in, the United
States acts as a ceiling above
which Canadian prices will not
go.
• What the immediate, future
holds for cattlemen depends
upon the number of cattle on
feed. That is,, the numbers to
come to market and particularly
the trend of ,prices in the
U.S.A. Looking ,at the picture
from a long term view • there is
reason to believe that the fu-
ture. is bright, both in Canada
and the United States. Over the
next few years • emphasis will
probably be placed on the ef-
ficiency of feeding and 'atten-
tion 'given'to improved methods
of marketing.
*
A soil in which the fertility
leVel and organic matter con-
"tent has been built up and
maintained through crop rota-
tions will consistently produce
higher quality potatoes than a
soil where the nutrient require-
ment for a crop is supplied
through heavy applications of
,commercial fertilizer. Fertiliza-
tion of the potato crop should
be based on the anticipated, crop
requirement in relation to the
'known available nutrients in
'the soil as determined by soil
analysis.
*
Most potato soils are deficient.
in potash• and the cheapest and
most commonly used form of
this element. is muriate of po-
tash which contains potassium
and chloride. In soils requir-
ing heavy applications of po-
lash, trouble is often encounter-
•ed when the muriate fOrm is
used because of the action, of
the chloride on the tubers. It
:decreases the dry matter con-
tent of the potato and increases
the tendency of the tuber to
darken when cooked. If soil
'fertility is kept at as high and
as well balanced a level as pos-
sible through 'proper crop rota-
tions, the potash reqnirements
of the soil will probably not be
great; enough to warrant an ex-
cessiVely heavy application of
--commercial fertilizer to meet
the need of a current crop of
potatoes. /f for some reason
heavy application of commer-
cial fertilizer must be made, a
'portion of the muriate of 'po-
tash may be applied either on
a green manure• crop or to the
soil — but in the fall of the
-year before planting the potad
-toes. A. large percentage of the
chloride will then be dissipated
before it can be absorbed by
the potatoes. This method of ap-
plying potash in the muriate
form hasIbeen adopted in Europe
.11.011001 !or Stealing
Frori7 in self !'
SALLY'S SALLIES
The number of cattle and
calves on farms in Carrada at
the present time is probably at
the top of the present cattle
cycle, and cattle numbers will
likely soon begin to show a de-
cline. However, for the first
time on the North American
continent cattle numbers have
risen to a peak in the cattle
cycle at a time when there are
enough people to-eat practically
all of the beef at reasonably
satisfactory, prices, Therefore
there' is not "the same necessity
to make a downward adjustment
of cattle prices.
The 'danadian consumer is
buying• more and more of the
'top. grade of beef as indicated
by the increased numbers of
Red and Blue brand beef over
the past few years. In 1938 the
average weekly number of Red
and Blue carcasses in the kill
was approximately 5,900 and this
represented 21 per cent of the
total kill. The 'weekly average •
so far "this year of Red and Blue
grades has been 13,790' which
represented nearly 42 per cent
of the total kill. In one week
this year the two top grades
combined made up -50 per cent
of the inspected, slaughter. The
total numbers of Reds and
Blues was -about 15,500 and this
Was fairly evenly divided be-
tween these two grades with
nearly 8,000 Reds and 7,500
Blues.
The increase in demand for
Red and Blue carcasses has
created a year round market for
these grades. In 1955 the week-
ly average of Red and Blue
combined was about 11,700 car-
casses. The lowest period was.
during the month of Septem
ber when the total of these two
"That was the Metropole Hot-
el — there's been a robbery,"
said the duty sergeant at Can-
non Row Police Station,: West-
minster. Such calls were rou-
tine, causing little excitement,
but this one was to prove in-
triguingly different.
A few moments after it was
made a tall, smartly . dressed
man left the station and walk-
ed rapidly in the direction' of
the hotel, Had you noticed him
you might have thought that
he was from the. Foreign Office
or, maybe, a bank manager. You
would hardly have placed him
as a detective from the C.I.D.
And When he entered the
bedroom of Mr. George Marsh-
all to investigate the robbery,
that portly and pornisous solicit-
or was somewhat taken aback.
He had not expected • to find a
detective in his bedroom with-
in half an hour of, reporting his
loss.
"How much has been taken
"Here's a blend some say is a
• bit olcRashioned. It just smells
nice,"
CiATil!eit1811Fitt
Joe krisco, that groat 'talkie-Villa
perforinee rot -yeeteryear Maintains
that"- the greatest staesfirati Ain'the
world 'woe the then; -vote waked.
to `get' in to see'tluy KefittiCkY
i3lirieile.firt inMthe admission ' O
teitering—iiear'the.•eiitranee this`
chap saw another41ipproach the
gate and call ent,.."I'M CoUnt
trainer," He passed through.,
A Minnie later another gate
treatieri ambled UP and Said to the
gatekeeper, Count Turf's
er." He get In, too.
Then lip stepped krisCo'S beiik
strode through the gate and,.Wall
C011ated by the 'attendant, "Where
do you think. .YOu're. 'going 14'
nerther,"-he onsWerek.
Triff.'t
does not immediately take it
for, a pack of lies. But just as
truth has an accent of its own,
so has untruth.
Elerrett, gifted with that
sixth sense without which no
man makes a good. criminal in-
vestigator, began to smell a
rat
There was no sign of entry
anywhere. But there were curi-
ous aspects in ;the case. For ex-
ample, he reflected, why should
a' thief cut the leather all round
the; lock to get at the , contents
when he could have picked it
Up and carried it away?
Then, again, why was an
open trunk untouched?
The detective lifted the top
garnient. Just beneath was a
small pile of sovereigns.
"Curious, sir," he observed,
`that the • thief did not touch
this,"
"Not at all,r retorted Mar-
shall, "he had taken all he
needed I"
A case for investigation
thought Berrett for the in-
vestigation of Mr. George Mar-
shall.
Marshall practised with his
brother, and one of their many
distinguished clients was the
Duke. of Newcastle. All over
Retford, Berrett found the name
61 Marshall to 'stand high. But
he also'found that George Mar-
Shall vas living rather more
lavishly ,than might be expect
ed; and he came upon several
people to whom the solicitor.
owed money.
'Montha of work, hundreds of
interviews, journeys to many
towns Were necessary before the
whole story became plain. It
was the old one --- that of the
embarrassed debtor Who robs
Peter tO pay Paul.
Marshall had lived beyond'
his Means. The Duke b1 New-
castle had sold a property
•40,000 and instructed the So-
liciter to hold the Money until
further Orders cattle
for two Yeakg',
During that tO meet:
pressing debts, the harassed a&
Reiter began to gamble with the
duke'S money, If he Could make
money quickly, he could get
himself Out of the mess.
Things were looking desper-
ate *hen Marshall camd into
contact with a short, Snub-ncise4
The full story of the hunting
down of Brown and his drunken
Irish partner, Kennedy; is long
and involved and' Izialudes a
flying visit to Sheffield.
This journey was made by
car. At Markham Moor, near
Tuxford, Notts, a stop was made
to refuel.
Because police officers have
to render expense accounts,
Berrett asked for a receipt for
the payment for the gas. As
the car moved off he happened ,-
to glance at it.
"Well, here's an omen!" he
exclaimed a moment later.
"Look at this!"
At 'the bottom of the receipt
the garage man had put his rub-
ber stamp. It consisted of a gal-
lows from which swung a
corpse, and the words: Settled
with thanks.
That receipt is now in the mu-
seum of Scotland Yard. It was
a sheer coincidence, but as an
omen it proved true, for Brown
and Kennedy were both con-
victed and executed, They had
forgotten the well-known rule
of the Underworld:, Never kill a
cop, or you'll have the whole lot
on to you.
Prom the bottom rung of the
ladder to the top took James
Berrett close on thirty-nine
years to climb. When he retir-
ed, his burly, bearded figure
was known to every crook in
London. But none bore him, a
grudge, for,, "Gentleman" Ber-
rett always played fair. Be
might have been a Confounded
nuisance 'at tirrieS, but he was
always on the level.
sir?" inquired the C.I.D. Man,
James Berrett.
"Twelve thousand pounds,"
bOOmed the lawyer. "Ten one,
thousand-pound 'notes and four
five-hundred-pound notes."
"Then the first thing I'll ask
you. for is their ritirribeit," Ber-
rett took out his notebook,
"I haven't. got them," adinit-
ted Marshall.
"Then, your Cleric Will have
them?"
"Er .quite,, I Will Ste
about-it?'
Berrett soon had the clear
outline of. the affair as present-
ed to him by the lawyer,
Marshall had come from Bet-
ford, 'Notts; the previous Oven-,
!rig with his Wile. He left a .
leather wallet containing doen,
merits and the £12,000 in notes
With, , the ,hoor Clerk for safe
*.`keening, *
Next Morning he took the
Wallet' to , his renit, 'removed
declimenti checked', the. notes,
lOelted the wallet and pint. it
-'down 'by the window.
That . was about ten O'efeek:
He then went dOWnatairs, to the -.
barber Moto' for a sha-Vei- but
hid to wait, When ,return
Oct an . hour Wei', lie' the'
'Wallet cut open 'Arid the tietes,
/one.
When a detective told ,
itraightfOrWard story by a
Proininerit solicitor and 4134 hi
sidot-FACED s ta ummel Hummel, 5-MOn -0
polar bear cub, disapproves bf goings-on as keeper
Arnold Stiawaion, left, and Henny Hick attempt to give het a
bath at Brenkield. Zoo. Miss Hick was Hummel HOmmel's travel-
ing. comp:Micky an the tab's tourney from the, Hamburg, Ger-
many, Lio, where the
the
bruin was born;;