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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1930-01-16, Page 27,7 r�T Seagrave After Motor Boat "Trophy Miss England Il 38 Footer, 4000 H,P, Expected' to Beat 100 Miles Pet• Hour Loudon. --Interest in projected Br1- tieb `attempts to establish new speed records on sea and land is quickened by the announcement that Sir Henry Segrave ie aiming at a speed of 120 miles an hour In Miss England 2d, in which he will challenge America in 1930. Since the United States carried off the British International Motorboat `Brophy at Cowes in 1919 England has spent approximately $1,250,000 in en- deavoring ndeavoring to regain it. Sir Henry's new craft will surpass all previous models, She is to . be constructed in the strictest secrecy at the Cowes yards of Saunders, Roe & Co. On the arrival of the two Rolls- Royce Schneider, Trophy engines, which are 'being fitted by permission of the Mr Ministry, they will be watched by an armed nerd day and night. The engines are expected to de- velop 4,000 'horsepower, more than bas yet been caged in a boat thirty- eight feet in length with a beam of nine feet, with a water •speed of at least 100 miles an bour. What will happen when this enor- mous power is released remains a matter of conjecture, 10 is expected that such enormous power will cause the boat to leave the water at times. The chief problem is one of balance, Whenever she touches the water the boat must strike in a horizontal posi- tion to escape being torn to pieces by the opposing stresses. In this re- spect the boat is expected to estab- lisle new standards in marine engin- eering. At suck) speed as the boat is expected to reach there is grave dan- ger of skidding while attempting to make sharp turns, but it Is believed Miss England 20 will be able to take n right hand turn at seventy-five miles an boor. lt.1s expected that Sir Henry's boat will be lauu:•lied be May neat - She will be tried oat cut Luke Weidele mere. Meanwhile, preparations are being made to beat Sir Henry's automobile record of 331.30 miles per hour at Pendine Sande. Carmarthenshire, where Pante Thomas lost bis life in a speed attempt. It is doubtful if, on the stretch of sand on the south coast of Wales there will be sufficient room for slowing down after the maximum awed has been attained and the mea- sured mile covered. Pendine Sands, which were used by Captaia Malcolm Campbell when he set the record sixty miles an hour slower than the present figure, extend for seven miles. Nearing the seventh mile is a rivulet crossing th a sands to the sea, a dangerous obstacle to a ear travelling at more than 200 miles an hour. Kaye Don, for whom a 4,0004meee- power Sunbeam Silver Bullet automo- bile has been specially constructed, is desir'ons of maicing a new record. on British soil, if the stream can be diverted as a matter of extra precau- tion. His ear should rearrb its maim= speed in two miles, travel the mea eared mile and then, with the assist- ance of a specially designed wind- break device in the tail, will be able to slow down safely to stop when -the sixth mile is reached, Captaln Maleblni Campbell, whd probably will make an attempt in his 1,800 -horsepower Blue Bird, is not so sanguine Yeseerding the Pendine Sends and bas plans for ean'iructing a special track on the east coast of England, near the Wash. The speed limit at Dayton Beath, according to Sir Henry, bas very nearly been readied, and visibility tbere is bad. However, if it is finally decided that Pendine ie unsuitable, Kaye Don may make the Florida strand the scene of bio attempt, in spite of Sir Henry's warning that be may not be able to use toll power there, ,Aviation experts are turning their attention to a new We of angle - seater plane that will have a velocity of 360 miles an hour. This new plane will be developed on the lines of the Super -marine 86 and the Gloster -Na- pier Schneider trophy raging Sea' Vanes. The only difficulty is the problem of landing speed. At tbe present no air- sTrome in this country, or on the Con- tinent, ie large enough for such a speedy machine to taxi safely to a standstill That is why the Schneider trophy contest is flown over water. However, it is hoped that tbe re- search work will succeed in solving this problem, A Poor Exchange Sydney Bulletin: Australia, Hite the, Irish Free State, is a "fully re- ciprocating Dominion." If an bleb man or Australian settles in Britain, be isliable to be taxed only once: be Days in the country of the higher 'fax. This is a profitable arrangement Air the Irish Free State, which ex- ports no rich men nowadays and at- tracts hundreds of leisured Englisb residents for its hunting, shooting,. belling and sport generally. But it Is no good to Australia, which ,attracts Dracticaliy no Hiltons with large pri- vate incomes oxespt High salaried .,Governors, and exports thousands of its richest citizens every Year. !Statistics Show Crime on Increase Figures For Canada . Give All- Round Juinp of 15.31 Per Cent. MINOR `INFRACTIONS Traffic Violations Contribute to Total—Gambling Fever Grows Ottawa.—Crime in Canada is in- creasing;, the annual report on erlm kat statistics issued recently dis- closes, The increase for Canada in criminal offenoes was 16.31%. This Is the greatest increase incrime since the year of the outbreak of the world war in 1914, when the increase was 17,02% over the previous year. In respect of summary convictions (con -indictable) the increase was still greater, being 27.18% over the ; n'e- vions year, the greatest since .these statistics have been instituted, over ball a century ago. This augmentation is due principal- ly .to'infractions .of traffic regulations, which were almost 47%a more numer- one than in 1927, The increase in criminal and other offences was general all over Canada. The Maritime Provinces led in per- centage Increase in criminal offences while Ontario and British Columbia show the lowest percentage increase. With regard to minor offences (sum- mary convictions) Prince Edward Is- land, Ontario and Alberta increased most, while in British Columbia there was a decrease. When comparing in- dividual offerees it is revealed that the increase was also of a general nature. Convictions for murder rose from ilia 1927 to 19 in 1928, which ing crease is but incidental, as the -num- ber of murders fluctuates from year to year. The average number of con- victions for murder in Canada during the last 53 years has been 13.23 per annum. The lowest =mbar was three in 1906 and the greatest was 34, in 1915. The principal increase during the year in offenvee against the per- son was in common assault which thee from. 951 to 1,283, wbieb, how- ever, is bait 22 cases above the figures for 1920. B'nrglary, shop and. housebreaking increased by 12.13 per cent. In 1928 over 1217 and by 37.47 Per cent. over 1916. Tbeft, as usual, continued to In- crease, the figures for 1928 being 10.58 per cent. over those for 1927 and 18,02 per cent. over 1926. In the miscel- Ianeous ekes greatest augmentation is shown in branches of gambling and lottery cards, which in 1928 were 64.62 per Bent. above 1927 ..o2 155.09 per cent. above 1926. The sum total of al convictions of adult offenders in 1928 was 267,483 as against 212,070 in 1927 and 137,361 in 1926. Of tbe 26,093 charges for indictable Offences in 1929, there were 4,918 ac- quittals, 10 eases of nolle prosequi, or stay of proceedings, 7 cases in which "no bill' was returned by the grand jury, and 39 persons were detained for larary, leaving 21,720 convictions, French Defense Fund $116,000,000 To Guard i' bine Fortifications on Alsace and Lorraine Frontier to Cost $40;000,000 Paris.—The Chamber of Deputies, Dec. 29, voted appropriations of 2,000,- 000,000 francs (approximately $116,- 000,000) for national defenese. This is the eenlplete program of expendi- tures for the years from 1930 and 1934 along French frontiers. .An emendation of 1,000,000,000 francs for 1930 along the I4.hineland frontier In Aieace and Lorraine was voted Dec. 27. The defense of the French frontiers as planned by the general staff and approved by the army commission of the Cbamber of Deputies, envisages the placing of preponderant emphasis on anti-aircraft defense, the president of the commission told the Chamber during renewed discussion on tbe frontier defense measure. The complete measure outlines a program costing 2,900,000,000 francs, of which 1,000,000,000 francs for 1930 were voted. In a brief discussion of the naval defense program, it was brought out that the French Navy in the Mediter- ranean must be able to transport im- mediately in ease 02 war 400,000 men from northern Africa. High Commissioners Auckland Star, N,Z.: Tine ,ace eeted break from the custom of appointing a political supporter to the Iliglr Com- missionership is worth malting if a suitable man can be found. The dif- ficulty is, however, that both inside and outside polities the necessary combination of qualities is very hard to come by. The postition has grown much more important than it was a generation ago, The High Commis- sioner should not be only a first-rate business man and a good speaker, but a diplomat well versed in interna- tional affairs, Ile now bas to go to Geneva and represent New Zealand at a gathering of sixty nations. Are there many euc11 men in New Zea- land? We should not like to have to make the choice. Reminiscent of War Time Days RECENT LONDON GALE PLAYS HAVOC WITH HOUSE Ten people in this Queen Square house when front part was'bdown out by' furious gale which swept London, taking lives .of many British seafaring men: Convicts Fight Against Dire Fate Portuguese Convicts Mutiny on Prison Ship; Quel- led After Desperate Fight at Sea Lisbon, Portugal. - The Colonial Office reports that a serious mutiny among convicts on a Portuguese pr1- son ship bound for the African peni- tentiary at Luanda, Angola, had been quelled only after desperate band -to. hand fighting. The reports said the convict ship Guinea was conveying 126 long-term prisoners ween the outbreak came, The chip was within eve miles of the coast when the convicts made a wild dash for freedom, savegely attacking the guards aild crew. It was only after a, desperate fight that the guards, who were armed with rifles and bludgeons, succeeded in overpowering the men and looking them up in the hold. A second attempt at a breakaway was made as the Guinea was going into port ,the convicts smashing their shackles and rushing on deck. They were again overpowered, this time by troops summoned aboard the ship by radio. All of the prisoners finally were transferred to shore under a strong esorxt. Australian Finance Johannesburg Star: The new Labor Government will bave no light task in adjusting the economic conditions of the Commonwealth to what are its obvious requirements. One 01 tbe chief problems is the raising of the public revenue to the level at which it will meet the current expenditure, including the heavy annual interest ebarge on the national debt—either that or Bitch a reduction of expendi- ture as seems hardly practicable. An- other problem is to stimulate produc- tion without lowering the wage level througbout the country, an exceeding- ly difficult task for a Labor Govern- ment, A domestic servant has written a Play. It is said to contain one good situation after another. Moscow Sore At Canada's Act Soviet Foreign Office Official Explains Russia's Attitude EXPULSION RANKLES Moscow.—The Soviet Government will not send .a representative to Canada, one of the beetle of the Soviet Foreign Office told a tens - pendent recently. In view of, the fact that the last Soviet trade delega- tion was expelled from Cantle at the behest of the British Government and for no other reason, the Soviet Gov- ernment will not of its own accord re -open negotiations either for trade or diplomatic relations with Canada. Asked what, if any, material ad- vantages would entail from having such a , delegation In Canada, the Soviet official pointed out that from 1924 to 1926 there was a considerable volume of trade between Russia and Canada. "Russia still imports large quantities of horses, livestock, agri- cultural equipment, cement, etc„ but because of the unfriendly attitude of the Canadian Government, we prefer to buy these elsewhere now,"" be said. Would lee Considered In a reply to a question as to whether the Soviet Government would send such a delegation if the Canadian Government were to recon- sider its decision and decide to renew diplomatic relations, the Foreign Of - tee stated that on the ground that it was a purely hypothical question, he could not make any anewer, The cor- respondent is of the opinion, however, that any friendly geature from Can- ada would be well received here. Tree Seed for Overseas By special arrangement • with the authorities concerned considerable quantities of tree seed extracted at the New Westminster Station of the Dominion Forest Service are each year shipped to the British Forestry Commission and, to the New Zealand Forestry Department to be used in their respective planting operations. "Baldness is often a badge of the successful business man," says a 'writer. It certainly means that _he has come out on top. Civilization May Destroy Eskimos Arctic Natives Threatened With Extinction, Auth- orities Say WHITE MAN CAUSE Easily Succumbs To Ailments of Almost Every White Child Ottawa:—Six thousand Eskimos liv- ing cheerfully in Arctic and sub -Arctic Canada ' are threatened with ultimate extinction by the spread of civilization towards the Arctic circle, authorities on the far north predict. Disease and death, brought slowly but surely as the white man advances northward, are creating a nrerlaee to the Eskimo which will prove one of 'the dilemmas of northern development, they say. Totally without immunity to white man's diseasee, the Eskimo, succumbs to ailments which are considered minor misfortunes in the life of almost every white child. Ile suffers from. malnutrition when fed white man's feed,'and yet he gorges himself with it whenever possible. He contracts tuberculosis from wearing store cloth- ing -under unsuitable conditions, and yet helikes them, Measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, grippe and other ailiiient he gets from the white man himself, and yet he is most happy in his company. GREAT KILLER. • He tures the advantage of trade with the white man into an agency for his destruction. Despite his friendly natnre and good-heartedness he is a great killer.. With his new -bought rifle he shoots all the game he can find, and ultimately may transform a naturally bountiful couutry into aland of hanger. Six thousand persons spread over a land as long as the northern coast, of Canada are an asset, officials declare. They point out that the Eskimo is, and will be still more, the agent of the white man in icy; lands where the latter cannot live long. Those who bave been associated with the ,Eskimo longest say civiliza tion, uncurbed, will do' one of three things to him: Absorb him, hill him, or drive hum northward. EDUCATION NEEDED They are confident, however, that something can be done to help the Eskimo save himself. Education, they believe,, will ;develop within his happy- go-lucky mind a sense of providence) which will enable hint to look after his future food supply and to treat his personal property less , recklessly, Medical service, they think also, will save him from the disease he seems bound to contract in settled districts, while his own predisposition to health will save him when he is fax away front the white man. Given help in combating the two major threats of his own wastefulness and sickness, they declare, his own native intelligence will probably en- able him to exist indefinitely as an Eskimo without absorption. There is only one menace they can think of from which the Eskimo is free, local Arctic authorities say. He does not like .liquor. He will take a drink if he is pressed to do so, but does not seem to care if he never has another. A well-known London clergyman who enjoyed my story of Everett. Bad- ger ('Is it nice?" writes to say that it reminds him of a. man who, walk- ing with the late Rev, C. H. Spur- geon, passed a shop bearing the no- tice, "Smith's Shirt Store." Spur- geon glanced up. "011, poor chap," he exclaimed, ''he must have caught It on a naill" It took the other man an hour to discover what he meant. He is the freeman whom the truth mattes free, and all are slaves beside. —Cowper. - ed Our Heavy Snows Chaanged Transportation Views MOTORISTS SEND 8.0.9. FOR OLD-TIME HELP iiueity farm horse wars needed Vere to get this ear up tbe eteep hill, near Cookeville, in recent snowfalls, after highway was cloak 'Flan Saved From I " Trade With Chili" Wreck By D ring Feat of Mechanic im Cusator Climbs Out and Holds, Ski in Place for CAUSE- OF 'MISHAP Prince Albert, Sask:;—Aviators In the northland have a new hero. He is Jim Cusator,' quiet and reserved air mechanic, who in one of the most 'dar- in'g and brave feats in aviation annals of the North most; probably savedhis own life and his .pilot's here recently. In defiance of the relentless laws of gravity, altimeter, dangling by hie arms in space in the 70 -mile -an -hoar blast from the propeller, righted a tilted left ski and held it in a horizon- tal position until the machine 'had come to vest in safety on the ice -locked surface b£ the river here. Intimation of the ;.erilous situation of the pilot, Geoff Hornesay, and aero mechanic Cusator, came first to pilots and mechanics of other machines who steed by to watch the graceful Stinson Detroiter take off from the river on a test• flight a few minutes after it .had arrived from Saskatoon. RIGHT Slat DAMAGED Due to the soft spongy nature of the snow the pilot had experienced difficulties in getting into the air and narrowly averted hitting the bridge After a run of almost a mile. As the airplane circled back the watching airmen were horror stricken to note the right ski had been damaged. In- stead of being parallel to the faailage the front end dipped down at a dan- gerous angle. Experienced pilotsltnew that in landing the tilted ski must strike the snow in such a way it would snap off and cause the machine to spin about the axle and. probably turn over, Jack Wight, pilot 00 a Sister Stin- son Detroiter, 'leaped into the cabin of his machine the engine of which had been left running, Opening the throttle wide he sent the plane plow- ing through the snow and then nosed it sharply up after it left the river's surface, He zoomed it through the frosty air towards Homesay's' plane just as it was circling to make a land- ing, and bringing it to horizontal po- sition when level with the other ma- chine, leaned out of the cabin, waved his arms, and pointed to the tilted ski. Cusator promptly perceived what was wrong, opened the eabin door, grasped the handles securely and lowered his body through the opening. Observers breathlessly' watched him attempt to reach the ski three times, each time to have the powerful breeze from the propeller whip his body back. Finally he succeeded in grasping the end with his feet and then holding it horizontal by hooking the back stay wire with one foot while dangling in this precarious position he enabled the pilot to make a safe landing. When the plane carne to rest the hero mechanic was covered fromhead to foot with the soft snow thrown up by the skis in the landing and was as .unperturbed as if he had just stepped from the cabin. 67,4 Commercial Attache at Wash ington Now Investigat- ing Canada An 'increased inter -change of come merce between Chile and, Canada woulit prove of high value to ptiot11'' countries, declared lion, Charles If. Lee, commercial attache for Chile at Washington, at present making an'` Snvestigatlon in tthls country for his government. He will remain in illont- realfor several days. Thus far, excellent co-operation on the part of. Canadian business men le promised, Mr, Lee said; which is higbt Iy promising for further relations: With Chile buying 0li ee tines as - much. from Canada as eine sells, trade is• not basically equal, and of this, the greater part of such trade is confined] to nitrate of soda. There are, it was; explained, other avenues of excellent produce to be opened, which include wines, fresh fruit and vegetables,. comprising grapes, peaches, pears; oranges, onions, garlic, beans, peas and Ientlls, In return, Chile received from Can ada exports of which automobile ac- cessories are outstanding, and cons, tain rubber tires, various rubber pro - duets, in addition to razor blades, sal- mon, wallpaper and smaller quanta, ties of commodities which fall ander, these headings. To a' large extent,. there is found to be certain difficulties hi a direct steamship service between the two countries, which results in shipments being made by way of Panama or New York. A direct route between the two countries is being contemplated. In conclusion, 14'r. Lee said that a: Chilean embassy may be establislre1 In Canada within a short time, and stressed the wonderful reception he reserved in Canada, New Land Found In Antarctic Norweigian Flag is Raised on Territory Found Near South Pole Oslo, Norw.—Capt. Risser Larsen, who is participating in an Antarctic exploring expedition in the steamer Nor-kegia, reports to the newspaper, Tidene Tegn, Dee. 28, that he and his fellow airman, Lieut: Luetzow hlolm, have discoveted new land between Enderby Land and Coats Land. The two airmen left the Norwegia in their plane and alighted on the open ice near' the land. From there they went ashore and raised the Nor- wegian flag, taking possession of it in the name' of their country Record- ing to international forms. They then returned to the Nor- wegia, which was waiting 100 miles away. Enderby Land is located at the eastern extremity of the so-called Enderby Quadrant of Antarctica, In about 60 east 66 south. Coats Land le located at the western edge of the Enderby Quadrant at about 20 west 75 south, Ontario Will Preserve Prehistoric Indian Fort Montreal, --The Southwold earth - weeks, an old Indian stronghold near let. Thomas, Ont„ famous among ardbareologtsts as the only prehistoric Indian double -walled fortification .of which remains have been found, has been saved from oblivion by the inter- vention of the historic sites division of the natural parks branch et Ot- tawa, Preeervation'is now assured, Me old fort, :the walls of which have crumbled so that they are• now not more than three feet higb, is thought to leave been one spot at which the people of a neutral mann made their leek stand against the war- lilte advances of the Iroquois, who lina11y drove them front Ontario abort 260.years ago. The site covers an area of about three acres, The fort was protected by a double line e.f earthworks which completely inclosed . it: Tho "moat" between the two Ovalis was about thirty feet in width. It is thought likely that. a palisade of high, yltai'p- ened loge, set vertically, formed the superstructure atop the earthwork, Dinner Delayed Girls Discover Chloroform: Killed" Turkeys Come to Life Sc.:et Ste, Marie, Ont.—A good' story is being told here at the ex- Lease of a group of bachelor girls in an apartment here who ordered a tar - key from a farmer. A few days later a weighty box ar- rived at the apartment and upon he- ing opened was found to contain a nice plump turkey very much alive. None of the girls bad ever killed 01' dressed a turkey, but, being unwill- ing to let the butcher know of titeir delemma and trying hard to be do- mesticated, they decided to do the j.nb at home. After lengthy deliberation it was. agreed that the most painless and hu- mane method would be chloroform. and they proceeded to carry out their plan. They made a splendid job of pluck- ing and singeing, and laid the bird in a pan in a closet until next morn - lug. Tben, while one propared the dress - Ing and another the cranberries, a third undertook to get him ready for the oven. But when she opened the closet door, out stepped the turkey, minus feathers, and gobbled at her angrily. Will of Chinese Novel Document Strange Wording Used in Dis- posal of Estate Worth $11,000 Toronto.—Wong Yuan Pui, Chinese laundrynnan, left an estate of $11,100 and his will, filed for probate, reads, in part: "I, by parental name, Yuan Jrui, being wicked in my lifetime and, thorefore, devoid of offspring, do hereby bequeath to my adopted son, Jack Sang, the whole of my ancestral estates and appoint him the -executory "Jack Sang should recall the labors of my lifetime before coming to these fruits, and, therefore, should' exirt his every effort to manage the same_ properly. "As for my wife and :myself, the living is to be provided for and the dead to -be buried. However, care must be paid to the expenses, They should not be over ostentatious nor too miserly. "In case of any wicked persons at- tempting' to seize these said .estates, you are to use this as evidence," The estate is made up partly of real estate in China, being a brick house in the village of Dunbeaton-Toysun, Canton, $3,000, and cash in I{ung Sun Bank, Canton, China, $2,000. The beneficiary named in the will ie also a laundryman in Toronto. Trade Treaties Capue Times, Capetown: Die Bur- ger anticipates that there will be rage and fury in South African Patty; circles over the announcement• that further most -favored -nation treaties are' ;being negotiated by the Union Government with holland and Italy. Why? No one in their tenses hair ever objected 'to the Union conclud- ing most -favored treaties with foreign wearies,,The objection taken tat' the Germatrade treaty was not that it was a treaty with Germany, but that, it closed he door against any future special agreements with Great .. Britain for the special advantage of inter -imperial trade.