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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1940-11-14, Page 7THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1940 THE SEAFORTH NEWS PAGE SEVEN Heads C.P.R. Police A. HECTOR CADIEUX, one of Canada's best known police offi- cials, has been appointed acting Chief, investigation department, Canadian Pacific Railway, Mont- real, during the absence of Brig.- General rtg:General E. de B. Panes, D.S,O., L. d'I1I„ V,D., on military duty as distrlet officer command- ing M. D. No. 4. 3Ir. (adieux bas been with the Canadian Pacific investigation department since 1913, He has been assistant chief since 1925, THE KEY MAN There is a man in New York \vho can utllook any lock an earth, Charles Courtney has opened 100,000 of then, releasing 950,0011,000 in variegated wealth: jewels from a Rontanoff cas- ket, bonds from a safe crushed by earthquake in Tokyo, pounds sterling from a treasure ship ou the bottom of the North Sea, And in Brooklyn, amid showering sparks from a har- bor fire, he unfastened the locked door of a shed filled with dynamite. President of the International Lock- smiths' Association, at 49 Courtney is the key man of all key men. His hands are insured for $100,000. His eyes are so keen that he can look D. H. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR Office Commercial Hotel Electro Therapist — Massage Hours—Mon. and Thurs. after- noons and by appointment. FOOT CORRECTION by manipulation—Sun-ray treatment. Phone 227. into a keyhole and gauge tate teeth of the leek to the fraction of an inch needed to make a key: Recently when a company advertised a lock as "pick -proof," the Federal Trade Com- mission summoned Courtney to Wa- shington. Iie picked it in eight min- utes and forty-one seconds, Courtney's conscience is as sensi- tive as his fingers. He has traveled the country over to build up the eth- ics of his craft, organizing a national body of 3000 locksmiths with mem- bership tests and standards, a jury to study looks and make recommen- dations to manufacturers. Charles Courtney grew up on a farm near Marion, Virginia. Here he got his start as a locksmith when he made a key by filing down a piece of soupbone and opened the lock on his mother's jam closet. Later, in town, he unlocked all the stores while mer- chants were at- a ball game. It was all in fust; locks fascinated him. After working in a railroad mach- ine shop, Courtney spent three years - in Germany as a locksmith's appren- tice. By 1909, when he enlisted in the Marines, he was art expert. Con- fined in the brig on bread and Water for toomuchshore liberty, he would. pick the lock at night and raid the galley for sausage. In the Marine Corps. Courtney learned sleep -sea diving. In 1919 he opened a modest lock shop in Har - lent. His reputation grew because he could work miracles with locks under water. To the, bottom al New York harbor he went, reeking the Revolu- tionary treasure ship Hussar; to the liter Egypt, sunk off France, to sal- vage sates containing 03,500,000; to the Lusitania, intact the first time he went down, later only scattered wreckage. In 1932 Sir Basil Zaharo0, mystery man of Europe, chose Courtney to try for the $10.000,000 in gold which rumor said reposed in the cruiser Hampshire, sunk by the Germans in 1916. On the ocean bottom he and three divers picked their way in the cruiser, past skeletons still at the guns and into a sealed compartment, As the door opened, two British offic- ers arose from a table and floated past them; they had been dead 16 years. In darkness illuminated only by the divers' lights they found 11 strong -boxes, smothered in .slime. To one Courtney crept; the lock was rusted and he had to force it. From that bre chest the four men brought up 050,000. Down again they went. Under tremendous pressure Courtney worked at the locks on the second strongbox. Just as they seem- ed to give, the steel door of the com- THE WORLD'S GOOD NEWS will come to your home every day through THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MON'iTOR An International Daily Newspaper It records for yott the world's clean, Constructive doings. 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Painfully the locksmith found that he was able to crawl. Helping one another through the mud, the four men pushed through the door and were drawn up, After agonized months two of the divers died; the third had the bends. Courtney had four ruptures and his hair had turned from black to white. But he had fame. The public hailed him as "Davy Jones' Uulockor," and he was invited to speak at banquets, clubs, over the radio. The underworld heard of him too. Courtney did a comprehensive two - volume book on locks, But when the police pointed out how crooks were using the book, Courtuey burned all but a dozen copies. One New Year's eve two melt in evening clothes carne into his shop. As Courtney, in waiting on them. turned his bank; he felt a revolver pressed against him, "We want yoti to open a safe," one of the Shen whispered. "There's Live grand in it for yon." When Courtney refused they beat and kicked hint almost In- sensible. Another time he was called on fi Saturday morning to open an office safe. He found typewriters clicking and a force seemingly hard at work. Courtney took one look at the odd- looking crew and said he'd forgotten important tools. Downstairs he called the police, but when they got there the gang was gone. Courtney gets $25 a call, though his assistants do neighborhood jobs for smaller fees. He won't go abroad for less than $3000. One afternoon Lloyd's of London phoned him to take a boat leaving New York in an hour. In London he was whisked to the airport at Croydon, flown to Moscow. A syndicate that had bought the Russian crown jewels from the Bolsheviks had found no European locksmith able to open the 20 cas- kets containing them. The time lock baffles even Court- ney. Set like an alarm clock, it drops a tripper that will remove itself only at the exact time for which the lock has been set. Then, and not other- wise, the lock eau be worked by combination. When a furrier called Courtney one Saturday afternoon, telling him of an employe locked in hcold-storagevault the 'ob seem- ed � ed hopeless. The lock was set to open Monday. They had heard the man yelling, but now all was quiet. Over the phone, Courtney ordered them to break the ammonia pipe lead- ing into the vault, to stop further freezing. and then drove to the store like mad. At the scene, lie shouted through the broken pipe, telling the man to pull the tripper from the inside so that he could try the combination. There was no answer, To drill the lock would take too long, so Court- ney worked—without hope—on the combination. His fingertips felt the tumblers turn—and he opened the door. Forward pressed the police, firemen, ambulance crew. Dismayed, they saw only a pile of fm's. But be- neath the pile lay the mean—half frozen, nearly asphyxiated. Too weak to acknowledge instructions, he had, nevertheless, pulled the tripper and then crawled under the flus. Iu spite of Courtney's feats, his consuming interest is not in opening lochs but in malting theist safer. "It makes me sad to see hones no more secut e than my mother's jam closet." he says. "Thousands of ltometi. of- fices and stores are locked 'with a bit -key. A bit key has an arm or bit projecting near the end; there's not a safe one made, ,And when I see a good lock on the front door, but a flimsy one on the back, I groan." "Yet people can be safe from bur- glars, if they'll just get good locks and have them properly installed." BRITAIN DELIVERS RAYON In the 'great cotton and rayon cent- res of'Lantasbire, the printers of cot- ton piece 'goods are dealing with 620, 000,000 square yards ofcloth a year; with 55,000,000 ;quare yards 'of rayon cloth; 'with 44,000,000 yards of .mix- ture .fabrics—a total of 1710,000,000 square. yards. T'h•e textile 'finisshing trades alone are in fact enilployingno 'fewer than 0100,000 'people. The colour Style and Design Centre now estalb;ished here in Manchester will he of special assistance in :main- taining the new achievements of the rayon industry. Rayon prints are :being shown to -day which equal the cNloatr- inlg and design that made 'the prints of. H'nttgary ,famous, ,Lancashire is deter- mined to 'develop rayon ,prints of the type once supplied by that country and 1113' Study Ito 'Sptith Africa and South Amcrica in particular. Daring the first August of the war „11 :�4 1: f .:, },f. �:fy'{,"''Ye? WHOSE MO1EY r Is Lt WHAT money? Why—the money in the banks! The money care- fully put away by you and your neighbours in savings accounts. The money you coiild have spent today but wanted to keep safely against some future need. The businessman's money for use in his normal operations. There are more than 4,846,000 bank deposit accounts, savings and current. Within these two classes the great majority of deposits are small or of moderate amount. Q But you'd be wrong if you assumed from this, that the rest of the deposits are owned by the few! Quite the contrary! The railways, for instance, have deposits in the chartered banks — and that indirectly includes the whole population of the Dominion. The trade unions have deposits. Millions of policy -holders share in the ownership of insurance companies' deposits. QAnd don't overlook the deposits of wheat pools; farm co-operatives; churches; municipalities and municipal hydro commissions, school districts; school children's penny bank savings deposited with the chartered banks; and commercial and mining corpora- tions with very wide lists of shareholders, large and small, all over Canada. Truly, money on deposit in Canada's chartered banks is owned, in fact, by you and your fellow -Canadians. ' In war, as in peace, Canada's Chartered Banks maintain, uninter- rupted, their useful services — safeguarding depositors' funds; facilitating the nation's business looking forward to peace with freedom as the only sure basis of enduring prosperity. THE CHARTERED BANKS OF CANADA Great Britain was already exporting £318,tJli3 worth of silk and artificial silk yarns andnnanufaetureo, „r £2Vti,1'#0 ..worth more of them than during the last .\uguot of peace time. Reportsreceived here front euery market state than these goods, have been arriving with c)ockeork regu- larity. The .British rayon industry is now :placidly. preparing to develop the volume and the variety of these pro- ducts. 100 PAINT MAKERS 'More than olio hundred British paint manufactures continue to ship to countries oversea :paint: tarnish- es and enamels so the .value of 000,000 a year. They have succeeded in sending :throats during the first half the year more exports than in .peace time not only in value ;httt in quantity, The increase has :00120 achieved in spite of the disap•pe;n':ince of l: 1,er cent. of the -market: in Scandinavia and Holland, Paint:, tarnishes. enamels, nlixe.l p.tints :listcntper, cellulose lacquer, bit 111111t1eit., t. t11ite,itl,nl-. i11stli•it:i1.0 'arnislles autl dry colours. anything and everything which transform, and ttreicrves every- 100:,0111 VI' '0 ,:,i est. large or email is heist¢ produced in eteadily iticreasin.: quantities despite. War. One of the hie; developments of recent year. cella los': lacquers. par- ticularly for motorcar :int ht.., are in great demand, as are paints, varnishes and lacquers mule with synthetic re- sin to resist tropleal conditions. WORST 'WHEAT SCOURGE "'Lake -all", the wheat disease caused itingus phi is t us 0ranlin.s which destroys ro, is may soots disappear iroun the tlhrld's great wheat -growing zones Such 1s the hope of the British -uenti.t, Pr. S. D Garrett, mysolo gist. Dr. Garrett has spent twelve ;,ars in scare": of the coarse and euro ,,f the disease. Take -all ;tpelears in mane parts of the e vorld: taking every year 0 con- sid:raille toll of the world wheat crop: in the .\r.renti:n• and Uruguay. for ex - :''1r'0. i. has de •cr'y •r1 :, :,rr ecru. all the crop:. _lt ;i'✓x•,ro in <,.ntln Africa. Kenya, 1.1,S.A.. Australia. Canada and japan. • \\'lien i)r. Garrett went to Metres - lie stink years ago to study The disease in the t. 110114 laboratory 1t Adelaide University he read of a :farmer who, sixty years :140, had cieaned his ,01201 wheat itltls of the scottrage thy prepae- inv a veru •firm seed -bed. His neigh - hour, took like steps. "Loose seedabed (bring take -all” he. -- came a.local saying. -The practical farmer discoverei "how": Science, sixty years after. ogre tells .'why". euppleonenting its ex- planation with farther preventive mean. The ilan,,ms of Take -all cat; farmers that hew 11 diagnose for them: with , \18 en >, In ntakui his ;oil firm. the grow wen starves the disease u:. A firm seed bed. -scientific . r,..it- n i ,:heat: non -cereal;, oats) no lime. r,erai ntanering---these are the ., ,_ trol measures which provide the wheat grower, of sheworld with a. reeled,. against their traditionai enemy: Want ane: For Sale A te..1 week :.. New Ford Cars For -1941 Are Larger ROOMIER bodies and improved riding qualities are combined with smart new appearance in the new Ford cars for 1941. Presented by the Canadian Ford Company in two lines, the De Luxe and the Super De Luxe Fords are built with a longer wheelbase to provide dor the longer and broader. bodies. Running boards are partially concealed. Seating widths have been increased as much as seven inches and there is greater shoulder 0110 headroom, (left). Much better vision is afforded both driver and passengers as glass areas have been substantially increased, up to 33 per cent increase in coupes. Front ends are re- styled as shown in the Super De Luxe Fordor above. m Duplicateti Monthly t ;te s i :' ents We can save you money on 13111 and Charge Forms; standard sizes to fit Ledgers, white or colors. It will pay you to see our samples. Also best quality Metal Hinged Sec- tional, Post Binders and Index The Seaforth 'News PHONE 84 pertinent slammed, closing 00 their telephone and light' wires as the cruiser was rolled by a powerful underseas current. Courtney was hurl- ed against the wall, felt blood warm- ing his side. He lay almost, an ltottr in pain, steadily weakening although his oxygen supply and that of the three others was not cut off. Then suddenly the line jerked and, through the door, now ajar again, Courtney made out a diver signaling to hien. Painfully the locksmith found that he was able to crawl. Helping one another through the mud, the four men pushed through the door and were drawn up, After agonized months two of the divers died; the third had the bends. Courtney had four ruptures and his hair had turned from black to white. But he had fame. The public hailed him as "Davy Jones' Uulockor," and he was invited to speak at banquets, clubs, over the radio. The underworld heard of him too. Courtney did a comprehensive two - volume book on locks, But when the police pointed out how crooks were using the book, Courtuey burned all but a dozen copies. One New Year's eve two melt in evening clothes carne into his shop. As Courtney, in waiting on them. turned his bank; he felt a revolver pressed against him, "We want yoti to open a safe," one of the Shen whispered. "There's Live grand in it for yon." When Courtney refused they beat and kicked hint almost In- sensible. Another time he was called on fi Saturday morning to open an office safe. He found typewriters clicking and a force seemingly hard at work. Courtney took one look at the odd- looking crew and said he'd forgotten important tools. Downstairs he called the police, but when they got there the gang was gone. Courtney gets $25 a call, though his assistants do neighborhood jobs for smaller fees. He won't go abroad for less than $3000. One afternoon Lloyd's of London phoned him to take a boat leaving New York in an hour. In London he was whisked to the airport at Croydon, flown to Moscow. A syndicate that had bought the Russian crown jewels from the Bolsheviks had found no European locksmith able to open the 20 cas- kets containing them. The time lock baffles even Court- ney. Set like an alarm clock, it drops a tripper that will remove itself only at the exact time for which the lock has been set. Then, and not other- wise, the lock eau be worked by combination. When a furrier called Courtney one Saturday afternoon, telling him of an employe locked in hcold-storagevault the 'ob seem- ed � ed hopeless. The lock was set to open Monday. They had heard the man yelling, but now all was quiet. Over the phone, Courtney ordered them to break the ammonia pipe lead- ing into the vault, to stop further freezing. and then drove to the store like mad. At the scene, lie shouted through the broken pipe, telling the man to pull the tripper from the inside so that he could try the combination. There was no answer, To drill the lock would take too long, so Court- ney worked—without hope—on the combination. His fingertips felt the tumblers turn—and he opened the door. Forward pressed the police, firemen, ambulance crew. Dismayed, they saw only a pile of fm's. But be- neath the pile lay the mean—half frozen, nearly asphyxiated. Too weak to acknowledge instructions, he had, nevertheless, pulled the tripper and then crawled under the flus. Iu spite of Courtney's feats, his consuming interest is not in opening lochs but in malting theist safer. "It makes me sad to see hones no more secut e than my mother's jam closet." he says. "Thousands of ltometi. of- fices and stores are locked 'with a bit -key. A bit key has an arm or bit projecting near the end; there's not a safe one made, ,And when I see a good lock on the front door, but a flimsy one on the back, I groan." "Yet people can be safe from bur- glars, if they'll just get good locks and have them properly installed." BRITAIN DELIVERS RAYON In the 'great cotton and rayon cent- res of'Lantasbire, the printers of cot- ton piece 'goods are dealing with 620, 000,000 square yards ofcloth a year; with 55,000,000 ;quare yards 'of rayon cloth; 'with 44,000,000 yards of .mix- ture .fabrics—a total of 1710,000,000 square. yards. T'h•e textile 'finisshing trades alone are in fact enilployingno 'fewer than 0100,000 'people. The colour Style and Design Centre now estalb;ished here in Manchester will he of special assistance in :main- taining the new achievements of the rayon industry. Rayon prints are :being shown to -day which equal the cNloatr- inlg and design that made 'the prints of. H'nttgary ,famous, ,Lancashire is deter- mined to 'develop rayon ,prints of the type once supplied by that country and 1113' Study Ito 'Sptith Africa and South Amcrica in particular. Daring the first August of the war „11 :�4 1: f .:, },f. �:fy'{,"''Ye? WHOSE MO1EY r Is Lt WHAT money? Why—the money in the banks! The money care- fully put away by you and your neighbours in savings accounts. The money you coiild have spent today but wanted to keep safely against some future need. The businessman's money for use in his normal operations. There are more than 4,846,000 bank deposit accounts, savings and current. Within these two classes the great majority of deposits are small or of moderate amount. Q But you'd be wrong if you assumed from this, that the rest of the deposits are owned by the few! Quite the contrary! The railways, for instance, have deposits in the chartered banks — and that indirectly includes the whole population of the Dominion. The trade unions have deposits. Millions of policy -holders share in the ownership of insurance companies' deposits. QAnd don't overlook the deposits of wheat pools; farm co-operatives; churches; municipalities and municipal hydro commissions, school districts; school children's penny bank savings deposited with the chartered banks; and commercial and mining corpora- tions with very wide lists of shareholders, large and small, all over Canada. Truly, money on deposit in Canada's chartered banks is owned, in fact, by you and your fellow -Canadians. ' In war, as in peace, Canada's Chartered Banks maintain, uninter- rupted, their useful services — safeguarding depositors' funds; facilitating the nation's business looking forward to peace with freedom as the only sure basis of enduring prosperity. THE CHARTERED BANKS OF CANADA Great Britain was already exporting £318,tJli3 worth of silk and artificial silk yarns andnnanufaetureo, „r £2Vti,1'#0 ..worth more of them than during the last .\uguot of peace time. Reportsreceived here front euery market state than these goods, have been arriving with c)ockeork regu- larity. The .British rayon industry is now :placidly. preparing to develop the volume and the variety of these pro- ducts. 100 PAINT MAKERS 'More than olio hundred British paint manufactures continue to ship to countries oversea :paint: tarnish- es and enamels so the .value of 000,000 a year. They have succeeded in sending :throats during the first half the year more exports than in .peace time not only in value ;httt in quantity, The increase has :00120 achieved in spite of the disap•pe;n':ince of l: 1,er cent. of the -market: in Scandinavia and Holland, Paint:, tarnishes. enamels, nlixe.l p.tints :listcntper, cellulose lacquer, bit 111111t1eit., t. t11ite,itl,nl-. i11stli•it:i1.0 'arnislles autl dry colours. anything and everything which transform, and ttreicrves every- 100:,0111 VI' '0 ,:,i est. large or email is heist¢ produced in eteadily iticreasin.: quantities despite. War. One of the hie; developments of recent year. cella los': lacquers. par- ticularly for motorcar :int ht.., are in great demand, as are paints, varnishes and lacquers mule with synthetic re- sin to resist tropleal conditions. WORST 'WHEAT SCOURGE "'Lake -all", the wheat disease caused itingus phi is t us 0ranlin.s which destroys ro, is may soots disappear iroun the tlhrld's great wheat -growing zones Such 1s the hope of the British -uenti.t, Pr. S. D Garrett, mysolo gist. Dr. Garrett has spent twelve ;,ars in scare": of the coarse and euro ,,f the disease. Take -all ;tpelears in mane parts of the e vorld: taking every year 0 con- sid:raille toll of the world wheat crop: in the .\r.renti:n• and Uruguay. for ex - :''1r'0. i. has de •cr'y •r1 :, :,rr ecru. all the crop:. _lt ;i'✓x•,ro in <,.ntln Africa. Kenya, 1.1,S.A.. Australia. Canada and japan. • \\'lien i)r. Garrett went to Metres - lie stink years ago to study The disease in the t. 110114 laboratory 1t Adelaide University he read of a :farmer who, sixty years :140, had cieaned his ,01201 wheat itltls of the scottrage thy prepae- inv a veru •firm seed -bed. His neigh - hour, took like steps. "Loose seedabed (bring take -all” he. -- came a.local saying. -The practical farmer discoverei "how": Science, sixty years after. ogre tells .'why". euppleonenting its ex- planation with farther preventive mean. The ilan,,ms of Take -all cat; farmers that hew 11 diagnose for them: with , \18 en >, In ntakui his ;oil firm. the grow wen starves the disease u:. A firm seed bed. -scientific . r,..it- n i ,:heat: non -cereal;, oats) no lime. r,erai ntanering---these are the ., ,_ trol measures which provide the wheat grower, of sheworld with a. reeled,. against their traditionai enemy: Want ane: For Sale A te..1 week :.. New Ford Cars For -1941 Are Larger ROOMIER bodies and improved riding qualities are combined with smart new appearance in the new Ford cars for 1941. Presented by the Canadian Ford Company in two lines, the De Luxe and the Super De Luxe Fords are built with a longer wheelbase to provide dor the longer and broader. bodies. Running boards are partially concealed. Seating widths have been increased as much as seven inches and there is greater shoulder 0110 headroom, (left). Much better vision is afforded both driver and passengers as glass areas have been substantially increased, up to 33 per cent increase in coupes. Front ends are re- styled as shown in the Super De Luxe Fordor above. m