HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1924-06-19, Page 3lDitii�ster Occurs'Durini' Naval Practice Off ,.California• -=Be-
tweeze Ten and. Twenty Inhered and -Burned.
A despatch from San Pedro, Cal., Upon entefin'g 'the .turret, Ensign
says i, -Terse officers and forty-one Smith took .with hire an air hose]
en= of the 2nttleship Mississippi were which. immediately cause flames from
swept, to death, at 11.46 a.m, on the burning debris to shoot forth.
,Thursday, on the San Clemente fleet After flooding the turret with water,
{l}•ill grounds;; off this port, when a Ensign Smith ,was able to enter. All
shell in one of the 14 -inch guns, tur- the men were dead at that time, their)
ii+et Nee 2, exploded prematurely,ac- faces swelled and puffed alniost be,
eerding to semi-official information yond recognition by the intense heat.
kiven out from the United States Identification marks on the cloth
steamship Mexico, flagship of the Di- ing, however, :was still discernable,
vision Four, of the fleet. Three-quarters of an hour lapsed
Nearly a score of men were injured after the fire in turret No. 2 .eves > ob,-
hy the flare -back that carried the ter: served from the quartermaster's deck
rific charge through the breach of the before entrance into the red-hot
gun instead of out through the mum chamber containing the charred bode
xle. ies of :the entombed men • could be
The gun crew were preparing to made by Ensign Smith.
the as one unit the great sea fighter's Had the turret, which was revoly-
powerful broadside, when a sonar ing at the'tinieethe explosion oh the
called for the electricity to be turned battleship Mississippi • occurred, m-
en for the charge. mined in the position In which it
The switch was thrown on to, ignite .was at the time of the explosion, the
the shell before the breech was locked, hang fire from the left gun would
and; in another moment the interior have gone into the centro of the City
of the turret was littered with dead of San Pedro,' witnesses aboard the
and dying. ship said, When the guniter'e hand
Ensign D. Smith from the U.S.S. guiding the controls was wrenched
New Mexico was the -:first man to away by the explosion, the guns kept
enter the turret No. 2 following the revolving and stopped as they pointed
explosion. directly aft.
CANADA STILL RETAINS
MUCH ALIEN PROPERTY
Custodian Has Paid Claims of
Over Four Million
Dollars.
A despatch from Ottawa says: -
Alien property worth $9,782,282 is
still in the hands of the Canadian cus-
todian, who had paid out claims to-
talling $4,727,000 to date. Figures
dealing with alien property were tabl-
ed in the House of Commons on an
order for return. It is shown that
Canada received in cash from Ger-
many, Austria-Hungary, and other
alien countl•ies, $5,216,000. On ac-
count of indebtedness to enemy nation-
als, Canadian citizens paid into the
custodian $3,397,000. In securities,
real estate, unrealized property, and
ether sources, $5,897,451 was realized.
Disbursements out of the fund are
divided into four heads. To Canadian
creditors, 260 in number, $709,600 was
paid; to 51 Canadian claimants a total
of $1,592,000; cash releases to 950
people totalled $1,151,000, and $1,278,.
2.18 was paid to the central clearing
office for enemy property.
Of the amount still in the hands
Calvin Coolidge Brig. -Gen. Chas. G. Dawes
Republican Candidate for President Republican Candidate for Vice -Press
of United States. dent of United States.
Natural •Reioureeir' Bulletin.
$3,000,000 ROBBER CONFESSES riice of the Resources Intelligence
Servioe o! the`Depaitirsht o! the-
terior at Ottawa says:
, Many' of our most serious ' fewest
Man Near Death and Others Implicated .in` Chicago Train fires can be. directly. traced ..to ° tlib
Robbery Arreatesl---Oqe of Cc used Identifed by cTahrelessesanseosns wiof llbesrrhoyrtplfyckibnapa. rhtand;
"
Mail Clerks when
berry=picking will be popular,
Chicago, June 15. --An anonymous to the North Side address,: a.1116111n Fires with be''used-, to. prepare;,the
telephone ,message to the police early 'occupied by; Walter McCpinb. Party lunches, and these are the moat
to -day began clearing up the $3.000 M
There they found ,Coenb, his `active fire Trim -feces at this season. 1119
y perpetrated Thurs- wife' 'Wayne and e man who sa]d he • bl•e'but fire ishoulessed ryacare eshould if d be
oa-
000 mail robber p was Paul Wade bf Tulsa, A,kla. In
day night on the North 'shore, dyne's ekets; the taken that a clear spot be selected,
ixi police •found and that all leaves, branches and other
J. H. Wayne, with several bullets 81,0Q0 bills and 'in Wades: possession' inflammable material, bo, cleared away
in his body, was identified in the were new $500 bills.
County Hospital by two mail clerks as Valle .the police were et McComb's I from, the;spot ;.to prevent the : tiro
one of the bandits who held up the a man Whospreading, Before leaving every. pre-
Pgave; the name of J. Ma- caution must be taken that the Ilse
mall and express train of the Chicago, honey knocked at the door and was is extinguished, if wateris not avail -
Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad. arrested, I able earth should be thrown on the
Wayne, with three other men and James H. Watson, another early firer'to
a woman, was arrested' earlier in an caller at the McOomb flat was arrest-,$ssee itnto
acthtion
wind scatter not
fan the fire int action and scattier
apartment on the North Side. ed. In his pockets were. found twenty) embers into dry materiel:
.A confession was obtained, it was one -thousand -dollar bills. These are Carelessness with smoking material,
° �° stated by' Chief. of Detectives Hughes said to have been identified to -day by, cigarettes Pin ache
ETON DOii;nR�1I_a iia ELECTED
and Capt. t. Scserial numbers. Mrs. Cather I + Pine s, etc., causes fires
�!� p Schoemaker, who started Catherine Ma- to start.: It is not necessary
for the place where the loot, money Comb, wife of the lessee of the flat; . l
PRESIDENT OF THE �,I t � REPUBLIC! and bonds was ,said to be buried.
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The confession Is said to have been
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Descendant Old Calvinistic Family Succeeds Millerand as
Head of State - Premiership Accepted by -
Edouard Herriot.
made by Wayne, who was at the point
of death when the announcement was
made.
The telephone tip sent the police
gave the police valuable information.
In the flat were found names, let-
ters, incriminating articles and docu-
ments. Wayne and Wade were hid-
ing under a bed. Wayne had been
shot twice in the head and had gun-
shot wounds in the arms and chest,
A.despatch 'from .Paris says: -Gas- and is the first Protestant President King George Displays
to Doumergue, President of the Sen. France has had. He is. anti -Vatican Excellent Horsemanship
ate, Protestant and moderate radical, and classed with the Left, although
notes, $5,460,811 is in securities and was elected President of the'Republic he has otherwise little in common A despatch from Aldershot; Eng„
P value of property.
5433 635 represents val n horsemanship
by the National Assembly at Ver -
sallies. on Friday. H had says' The excellent h hiof
He defeated' Paul Pai leve a Candi- Y King George got him out of a tight
p ' place and saved him from a possible
date of the Left bloc and president of is an old office holder. He has been serious. mishap. As the King was
the Chamber of Deputies, by 515' to a member . eif six different Cabinets leaving the parade grounds on his
30e. The 'solid Left phalanx, led by and has held eight different portfolios. charger, after reviewing the trop s
Edouard Herriot, for the radical So- He was Premier when the radicals the horse became" frightened at the
eialists, and by Leon' Blum for the So- carried the country just before the cheering crowd. The animal "bucked"
cialists, did not even -poll the full 360 war and resigned because he favored and nearly collided with -a horse r
with the Chamber majority..
He has a thirtyears' service
in the
A recent portrait cf Sir Robert Bor-
of the custodian $3,657,786 is in cash den, whose mune was mentioned in
and 200000 is invested in treasury ootmection with the Irish Boundary
Commission,
White visiting St, John's School, Ealing. London, the :Duke of Connaught
presented a certificate of recommendation to P. C, Blake, an old school boy.
• COOLIDGE PRESIDENT was obliged to undo its work and find
DAWES VICE-PRESIDENT ..another.
Calvin Coolidgewas nominated for
the Presidency on the ballot
Republicans Choose Candi-
in the Republican National .Con -
dates for BigPolitical
r vention. ,
Campaign. He received 1,065 of the 1,109 votes. Le
Ro
A despatch from '. Marietta, O, bt. Marion La Follette got 34-28 d
pays: -Brig. -Gen. Charles Cr. Dawes of the 29 from Wisconsin and 6 of theft
has accepted the nomi19 from. North Dakota -and nation for the e
Vice -Presidency. Johnson got 10 of the 13 votes frr,, H:'t
South
I accept t the
S tth
Dakota
p nomination atiou
publican party for thebice P Re- As usual the Fait' b
+,
Vice-Presi- + ,,..,ieires �•receiveli
b
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d n
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ver
hee
Y sof menti v : r
said Y on
formal
A i ,
tate � a 1
statement Fo Tette
when informed of his nomination }- "I and the sport of the votes cast for I{
deeply appreciate. the honor eon_ hi' '-'v0ith jeers and hisses but t
(erred." j',1'cid only laughter for the name hof tl
A
despatch tel H'
nam
P from.. - Johnson.
Convention ntt
9n^'''
r es
I_,Mll
I.
Chamber and the Senate, and
votes it expected ad f the a Chamber the three-year military service law, den by the Duke of Connaught, beside
for Painleve, - in opposition to which the radicals the Queen's carriage.
Voting in secret, a portion of Her- had just won the election, The King made a second attempt
riot's forces broke away and voted for Since the war he has opposed fe- force his horse to accompany the to
pro-
Doumergue with all the Senate, both sumption of relations with the Vati- cession, but the animal, terrified,
Left and Right, and that portion of can,but later, as chairman of the plunged until its royal rider. was
the Chamber which is not "pure Re- Foreign Relations Committee of the forced to turn back and ride home
publican." Upper House, he supported Premier
M. Herciot will take the premier- Poincaro's foreign policy.
ship from President Doumergue There has not been a military de -
which he refused from President Mil- monstration since the war such as
lerand, although it will not be the that which accompanied the election.
triumph anticipated if M. Painleve All the roads around Versailles were
had won. filled with soldiers because of a
M. Doumergue is the . descendant threatened demonstration by Com-
of an old Calvinist family of Nimes munists, which did not materialize.
RUSSIANS ALARMED BY
OUTBREAK OF PLAGUE
Bubonic and Lung Diseases
Spread by Rodents Destroy-
ing' Vast Crop Areas.
A despatch from Moscow says: -
Outbreaks of the bubonic plague and
its variant, the lung plague, occurring
year after year in the steppe regio
east of the Volga, and the appearanc
of the plague in Black Sea ports an
the Don Valley of the Ukraine, ar
causing alarm in: Russian medic%
circles. -
The extension of the plague area is
due to the spread of field mice and
the rodents known as susliks, which
are destroying crops on millions of
acres of the best farming land in
Russia.
A micro -biological institute has been
opened at Saratoff to study means of
combating the plague and. to train
personnel for medical expeditions be-
ing rushed to infected areas.
One of the greatest difficulties in
the warfare is the question of trans-
portation; as the regions affected are
usually without roads and railroads
and hours are precious in preventing
the spread of the outbreak. The in-
troduction of the airplane has gone
a long way toward solving this prob-
lem.
The plague appeared early this year
n four steppe provinces -Astrakhan,
tale
1. Bvkei
eff and
the '
Kam its
u .
)strict.. Theeaewere 478 cases, . of
vhich 44.14- e fatal, before the dis-I
.e'e was got under control. Since
hen it has broken out anew in the!
mu Dara region. Y 8 .A congress es of
ncteriologists and epideiniologists at
rev late in April, after listening to
report of Prof.' Zabolotny on the
MANY CANADIANS
RETURNING FROM U.S.
Statistics Show 9,000 Have
Come Back in Past Two
Months.
A despatch from Ottawa says: -
Evidence that many Canadians are
returning from' the United States, is
shown by statistics now being -coin -
n piled by the Dept. of Immigration and
e Colonization, the total for the last two
d� months being nearly 9,000.
e It was not until towards the end
1 of last March that the immigration
officials began to' make an accurate
check on the number of Canadians
who were coming back after being In
the United States for six months or
longer. In April returns from 148
out of the 171 points along the inter -
(
national boundary at which there are
Canadian immigration inspectors,
showed that 4,084 Canadian citizens
returned to their own country. In May
the number from` 129 ports was 4,839,
with 420 ports still to be heard from.
The figures above quoted do not in-
clude Canadians who have been he the
United States for a shorter period
than six menthe.
enetration of the bubonic plague in
ne. Ukraine, decided that it was nec-
sary to establish a station at Odessa.
I nom
18i elation of Theodore E. Buren o
thio, and en the voting which follow
d the supporters of Frank 0. Lowden
io Iliinois•tan away with the nomina-
tion foe their man, only. to have him.
decline it. The nomination of Dawes
Came, as the climax to one of the most
spectacular scenes.' .in Republican
party y history, in which the convention,
once having nominated a' candidate,
British Trade Shows Signs
of Brisk Revival
Favorable signs all along the line
have renewed confidence and promise
better business, says a cable from
London. The British Industries fair
and the Empire Exhibition at Wem-
bley are in full swing. The budget
removes the corporation profits tax
and leaves the income and death du-
ties unchanged. The continued high
exchange value of the franc reduces
Continental competition, Resumption
of work. in the mines and shipyards
and increased bank clearings ander
relative firmness of prices are other
favorable factors.
along a quiet route.
' V
You can't travel far on a lame
excuse•
Gypsy Moths Menace
the Forests of Quebes
A despatch from Quebec says: -
While elation
ays:-While'elation is felt over the fact that
forest fires this year have affected an
area set at only 83 acres by an offi-
cial report received from Forest Rang-
ers, another danger is threatening the
National domain. The Forest Protec-
tion Service without delay has taken
means to meet and try to prevent in-
vasion of the southern forests of the
province by a fly known as the gypsy
moth.
In the last five years the gypsy
moth has been playing havoc with
the forests of the United States, first
in the southern sections and in the
last two years toward the northern
sections causing losses which are set
at hundreds of millions of dollars in
value by experts.
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'Photo shows the gallop past of the 17th Lancers when the one-armed
general, Sir Walter Congreve, V.S., reviewed the 8rd divtslon at Sallebury
Plain.
The Week's Markets
TORONTO.
Man. wheat -No. 1 North., 51.17;
No. 8 North., $1.10%.
Man. oats -No. 3 CW, 44%e; No.
1 feed, 41%c.
Man. barley -Nominal.
All the above, c.i.f., bay ports,
Ont. barley -65 to 70c.
American corn -No. 2 yellow, 95e.
Ont. rye -74 to 78c.
Peas -No. 2, $1.40 to 51.45.
Millfeed-Del., Montreal freights
bags included -^'Bran, per ton, 23;
shorts per ton, 524; middlings, 530;
good feed flour, 51.85.
Ont. wheat -No. 2 white, 51.15 to
51.20,
n
Ont, No. 2
white oats -89 to 41c.
Ont. "corn -Nominal.
Ont. flour -Ninety per cent, pat„
in jute bags, Montreal, prompt ship-
ment, 55.10; Toronto basis, $5.10;
bulk
seaboard, 54.75,
Man. flour-lst pats., in jute sacks,
56.65 per bbl:; 2nd pats., $8.16.
Hay -Extra No. 2 timothy, per ton,
track, Toronto, $18; No, 2, $16; No.
, 518 to $14; mixed $11 to $11.60;
ower graded, 510 to $12.
Straw -Carlota, per ton, $9.50 to
__ $10.
Illinois was nominated, f "the Vice- w Screen)
Presidency bythe ;.lel ; *; ` ' .2t �"^ u b s fw - u Standard recleaned, f.
Y ..1,ubhcan Na- c,= a y r +c 1:, 4 i o.b. Ba ports,Naper
Veinal s �, n. , t .. e „ Y P ton, , 16.
t t o '' k&. t' stir
after 1� x..
: `i
on a•� � .i,
ce i �>,: Ch
bad <u cLy 4, t � i .. , ,?; ,. core -New, Largs, 18 to 18 c
nominated Fe'ee 5 o,. S r.., 34
L q$y
0. M•
L '� � twins, ow r wi s
den `. 18
for toi
•. mer � 9 to
�c• triplets, i l
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4.overr ,.,:,,g Illinois, and here-
,
' 4tr » .• s: �> s � n , < 200• Built t 210. Old
s;i had ze Oke'large, 22 to 280
d'to accept the place. twins, 23 to 24e; triplets, 24 to 26e.
,* s � t� s , �.•i; z, i ' Butter -Finset. creamery rims 86
In a brief and spectacular fight,' in x3 r rat'„$ �v t: n t tc P
.< lt'`,q�c� .2 .., \. I �:.�, � $ h fi - - .....:
2, 860; Na ; creamery, e4 t 86e; No.
which Welham M Butler, President ' :4 i'` , `J ate„' . 2,8g s 840 d i
,. , .:`i� xa, ,.,:' r. -a :"a . i'.,x ' ', a lY, 28 to $Oc.
oolid e
6 n1Pni manse s a s Z
8n i had
Eggs -Extras, g $' s, fresh, in cartons, 84
-
. to 36C•
o ennsy vanta,cextra loose, 820,
•
said to Senator Reed f P 1
FD; mus .o.�, �� ,
t be Hoover, seconds 25c
.and Sen. Reed
had
hreplied,
«\ Live
d It can't . L v poultry --Hens, over
be done, it mast sR 3;t1 uxi�c s. r, t 3• � c ,� :. ya e x fid �` '� ,Fe,>'`a 5 lb., 280;
l .Dawes the • +>. a ,. t .s s•. do, 4 Loch ck 240 dm
Dawes su orE � a. „;' s., ;. , : , ':�; .>,,) � „ . , g e � f: , , > 8 to 4 lbs: 150
PP ers , s... r :.u<s tv3., -�, z ,
.tr,t, 5 a 'Y: . �+.r �c x a q . s,. � ��`,; � t � spring hi
<, - ,, .., .. a:. as .wa a : P t; c ckens, :2 lbs, and e • .
marshalled their forces and put Y ;<s ,,,,�', ,,;r•�S1 r-� - R•*";"c. � :'..•:.iM >..: :!, : ver, b6e,
p the . ,. .> � s, � s+ -«i> a. -�.a u, v,�. <n
�. ,. .� , zoos ,
`it )$.w �` tela 180 du
: r S i^ , cklm
s
over ' 1k: , ve
6
:�. 8 lbs
2
dmliistr.+,M_ .:t x ., aw. „c *k .. 4mL•.:3 r. ..
t Atleri mC
desired 11a
e 2 1
th ba and over, 600• ducklings,
i
1 t t
General across for the nomination.
6C do, 4 th 5 lbs., 24
Earlier in the day,
Mr, Butler s
1'Cea •.,, . iwc.o 2,E. %. 4 ,ji. -' ^fit , z ..a.,. ax u , . +
i`4 had assed �'� ,... -r : u > .�. ^•z.. >.� r S ..t.�a. f � ,E,. R +
P the. word
that the 28
r : � ••§,tom r, i , s� ; , v ,, .,- �. s : a ��.,� : s., 180, spring
ehiak-
Dressd ppoultryHens over c do 8 to..4 ]b r ., )las.
., :'i�;, .,M1',` p4.;`a �� v'. f <?..Ma st xx 8 .&est- ) i� e7tx.. F,'t°i•t °£?Y ,x. w. '.; , ,
f
over6. lbs. 220.
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Maple products- S rapp; pier imp,gal., $2.50; per 5 -gal. tin, 39.4e per
t
gal.; maple sugar, ]b., 25 280.,
Honey -60 -Ib, tihe, 11 to 1ls,,4c . per
Ib, • 10 -lb. tins le; to 1201 5- tins)
1:1% to 12c; 24b -lb. ting 12% to 18ee;
comb honey, per doz. No. i $9,75 to
!comb
N 2, 9. 0,
Photo Premier elacDonaid, the home secretary and Miss, Ishbel o
Par1iamontary Labor' Club at Tufton Street Westminster. lYf'acbonald at the opening of then ( $ 25 to $ 60
n logo, �Q,
doO
rolls, 17 to 18c; cottage rolls, 18 to
20c; breakfast bacon, 21 to 25c; spe-
cial brand breakfast bacon, 28 to SOc;
backs, boneless, 27 to 33c.
Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 50
to 70 lbs., 518.50; 70 to 90 lbs., $18;
90 lbs. and up, 517; lightweight rolls,
in barrels, 537; heavyweight rolls, 532.
Lard -Pure tierces, 14% to 15%c;
tubs, 15 to 15%c; pails, 15% to 18c;
prints, 18 to 18%e; shortening, tierces,
14 to 14%c; tubs, 1434 to lee; pails,
15 to 1534c; prints, 161 to 17e.
Export steers, choice, $7,75' to $8;
do, good, $7.50 to $7.75; export heif-
ers, $7.26 to 57.50; baby beeves, $7.60
to $9; butcher steers choice, $7 to
$7.75; do, good, 56.26 to 58.75; do,
med., 55.76 to $6; do, com„ $4.75 to
6; butcher heifers, choice, $6,75 to
7.60; do, rated., $5.25 to •56; do, com.
4.75 7
to 5•b
c
he
$ r cows,choice,
�6.26
0 2
$
$G. 6, do, rated:, 58.50 to $4,60;.
butcher bulls, 54.60 to 55.25; bolognas,
2.50 to $8.50; canners . and cutters,
1.50 tog 2.50; feeding steers, choice,
6 to
6.'i5
do
fair,.4
5to 6` At
, r5stock-
55.26; choice, $G to $5.26; .do, fair, 54 to
$4.25; milkers,springers, choice, 575
to 590; do, fair, 545 to $60• calves,
choice, 59 to 510.50; do, tined., 57 to
57.76; do, com., 54.60 to $6.50; lambs,
choice ewes, $16.50 to 518• do, bucks,
515 to 516.50; do, culls, $12 to 515;
spring .lambs, per lb„ 15 to 18e; sheep,
light ewes, $6.50 to $7.50; do, culls,
9.50 to $4.50; hogs, fed and watered,
8 to $8.26; dee f.o.b., $7,50 to 57.75;
o, country points, 57.25 to $7.50 do,
select, 58.80 to $9.051 do,off cars, ion'
haul, $8.40 to $8.65. 8
MONTREAL.
Oats,
3a 481/4'est., No, 2, 5034 to 61e;
to 49e; extra No. 1
feed, 47% 'to 48c; No. 2 local white,
44 to 46c.: Flour, Man. spring wheat
pats., lets; .56.66; 2nds, 56.15; strong.
bakers, 55;95; winter pats,,, choice
56.20 to $8.80. Rolled oats, bag, 90
lbs;, $2.90 to $$3, Bran, 528.25• shorts,
24.26. Middlings, 90,26.
gg , $, I#ay, No,
2 g
,Pei• tpu, far. I�ta, $18.50,, to • $ill;
Cheese, finest. Wester e, 1614� to
16%c; finest Beetern8,,1634 to 16% c.
Butter, No, 1 ptsteurizsdi 88%c; No.
1 creamery, 92•%e' e'Saolids, 31%e,
1ggs,'fresit stieciaial 880i fresh a•
-
tras, 20c; fresh erste, 24 to 25c. Po.
tatoes, per bag or bete, 5110 to$1, 5n
Com. ' dairy bul e $8 to 8
cows, 52 to $$.50; cel -es, cad wale
$6.25 to $7, de, Cont. 8u 'g•,Og5,G 50r,
$6; pail -fed calves, :$4,oQ to e4,e-,
�pzing lambs, Ino;•;,lb. 1G to 170, heetp'
$G; Tod eeaiaty tpether ,hogs, OhtiXec�
3 to late, Ted
to $p9.`�Pi• .sows, 5 t $,50•.
no Smoked meats -Hams, need,, 2
24o; cooked )tams, 84 to 80c; smoked select baco $
a arge fire for ordinary camp pias -
poses.' A small fire is more easily
controlled, and more readily extire
welshed.
Nature has - provided the berry
bushes, and the berries, and a little
care on the part of the berry -pickers
will preserve the bushes for future
crops, as well as obviate the danger
of fire riming into the forest growth
and causing enormous destruction.
Rewarded . for Trusting. Be-
lated Member of Parliament
Does it pay in these materialistic .,
times to play the "Good Samaritan"?
There is a London coffee house stall
keeper who is of the opinion that it.
does, A few weeks ago, in the early
hours of the morning, a well dressed
man ordered a cup of coffee and a
sandwich at his stall, only to find later
that he had no money to paythe
cheek.
The proprietor not only gave him a
second cup of coffee on trust, but also
advanced him sixpence for his fare
hone. The generous act was reward-
ed the following day by an invitation
to dinner at the House of Commons.
The "broke" stranger turned out to be
J. Toole, M.P. for South Salford, Ile
had been kept late in the House of
Commons and chose this means of
showing his gratitude to the faun• who
had befriended Min.
"Dining Car," Scene of Arm-
istice Signing, Going to Pieces.
A certain "wagon -restaurant,"
wherein a part of history -the armis-
tice -was once inscribed, 3s now, re-
posing in the court of the tnvalieles,
says a .Paiis despatch. It is going
o
pieces so fast that nobody, no even
Marshal Foch, could at first recognise
t. The roof on which the rains and
suns of five years have beaten has
that holes in it, the wheels have gone
skew and the interior, with its tables
nd chairs and lamps, is unrecogniz-
ble for the dust.
The plenipotentiaries who five years
go recorded for all time the fact that
the Germans had been beaten in the
orld War, would to -day find no need
or paper and ink to sign, the tennis.
f an armistice; it could be more sine-
ly done in those layers of dust. The
ew sightseers who have had the
ardihood to climb into the car have
roved that in their usual manner by
rawling names all over the inside,
d even the outside, where the words
Dining Car" still remain visible as a
eminder of the armistice car's once
humble identity, an identity which was
rhaps not as humble as it is now.
There has been some protest overe government's allowing the: "wagon
staurant" gradually to.crumble
way as it is now doing. Action may
taken•by the authorities as a result
newspaper 'publicity.
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Sunny Days in London
Bring Crime Decrease
The fact that the sun has been mak-
ingqCite a
how inEnglandfandis ts
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as the true cause of the decrease in
crime lately. Since the opening of
the last sessions at the Old Bailey
there have been only twenty-five eases
(they have been open three weeks),
against more than a hundred in the
same time at previous sessions.
A promineut London specialist is
convinced that the lack of sunshine
has a marked effect on certain phases
of crime, and that sun -starved per
50115 are more prone to morbidity than
peoples of sunnier climes. Sun -star-
vation, Says this medical man,' pro-
duces nerve starvation and lowers the
national, vitality. Suicides increase in
certain months probably because drill
dreary days produce depression,
1 d pre ssioii,
It fnaybe possible, says this special-
ist,
that a combination of; good hon s-
in a
sufficient
8 rad sun will
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banish serious crime from the world
He does not, however, ' pretend
p to have
any plan for the forcing of the sun
to shine h when it.tv0 't, and it e
i} g ner-
ally won't in. England,
British Naval Squadron
on Way to Vancouver
A, despatch -from Honolulu says; -•
1I'he British naval squadron, headed
by the battle cruiser- hood, which'Itas
bee visiting here for the last week,
steamed cut Of Honolulu or. Thuts lay
and headed for Va;ncouvet 8,.0.