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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1930-01-09, Page 7Seagrave After Motor Boat Trophy Miss England Il 38 Footer, 4000 H.P..Expected to Beat 100 ,Miles Per Hour London. --,Interest in projected Bra thee attempts to establish new speed records on sea and laud is quickened by the announcement that Sir I3enry Segrave is alining at a speed. of 120 miles an hour in Miss England 2d, 3a which he will challenge Aiueiica in 1930. Since the United States carried off the British International Motorboat Trophy at Cowes in. 1919 England has spent approximately $1,250,000 in en- deavoring to regain it. Sir Henry's new craft will 'surpass all previous models. She is to be constructed rte 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 Air Ministry, they will be watched' by an armed guard day and night. The engines are expected to de- velop 4,000 horsepower, more than Inas 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 hour. What' will happen when this enor- mous power is released remains a matter of conjecture. It 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 horizoutal posi- tion to escape being torn to pieces by the opposing stresses. In this re- spect the boat is expected to estab- lish new standards in marine engin- eering. .At such speed as the boat is expected to reach there is grave dan- ger of skidding while attempting to make sharp turas, but it is believed Miss Euglana 2d will be able to take a right hand turn at seventy-five miles an hour. It Is expected that Sir Henry's boat will be launched by May next. She will be tried out on Lake Winder- mere. Meanwhile, preparations are being remade to beat Sir Henry's automobile record of 231.36 miles per hour at Pendine Sands. Carmarthenshire, where Petrie Thomas lost his 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 speed has been attained and the mea- sured mile covered. Pendine. Sands, which were used by Captain. '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 the sands to the sea, a dangerous obstacle to a car travelling at more than 200 miles an hour. Kaye Don, for whom a 4,000 -horse- power Sunbeams Silver Bullet automo- bile has been specially constructed, is desirous of making a new record on British soil, if the stream can be diverted as,a matter of extra precau- tion. His oar should reach its maximum speed in two miles, travel the mea- sured 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. Captain Malcolm Campbell, who probably will make an attempt in his 1,300 -horsepower Blue Bird, is not so sanguine regarding the Pendine Sands and has plans for constructing a special track on the east coast of England, near the Wash. The speed limit at Dayton Beach, according to Sir Henry, has very nearly been reached, and visibility there is bad. However, if it is finally decided that Pendine is unsuitable, Kaye Don may make the Florida strand the scene of his attempt, in spite of Sir Henry's warning that he may not be able to use full power there. .Aviation experts are turning their attention to a new type of single - 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 SG and the Gloster -Na - Pier Sohnoider trophy racing sea- planes. The only difficulty is the problem of landing speed. At the present no air- drome in this country, or on the Con- tinent, is 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 the re- search work, will succeed in solving this problem,. A Poor Exchange Sydney Bulletin: Attstraiia, like the Irish Tree State, is a. "fully re- ciprocating Dominion." If an Irish - main. or Australian settles in Britain, he is liable to be taxed only oneet he pays in the country of the higher tax. This is a profitable arrangement for .the Irish Free State, which ex- ports no rich inlen nowadays and at- tracts hundreds of leisured ldngiish residents for its 'hunting, shooting, fishing and sport generally. But it Is no good to Australia, which attracts practically no Britons with largo pri- vate hinnies except high -salaried Governors, and exports thousands of its richest citizens every. dealt. !Statistics Show Crime on Increase Figures For Canada Give All - Round jump 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 ou crim- inal statistics issued recently -• 66= closes. The increase for Canada in criminal offences was 15,81%. This Is the greatest inerease in crime since the year of the outbreak of the world war in 1914, when the increase was 17.02% over the previous year, Iu respect of summary convictions (nolrindictable) 'the increase was still greater, being 27.18% over the pre- vious year, the greatest since these statistics have been instituted, over half a century ago. This augmentation is due principal- ly to, infractions of traffic regulations, which went almost 47% more numer- ous than in 1927. The increase in criminal and other offenices was general all aver 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 compariug in- dividual offences it is revealed that the increase was also of a general nature. Convictions for murder rose from. ilial 1927 to 19 in 1928, which in- 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 number ivas three in 1906 and the greatest was 34, in 1915. The principal increase during the year in offences against the per- son was in common assault which rose front 951 to 1,283, which, how- ever, is but 22 cases above the figures for 1926. Burglary, shop and housebreaking increased by 12.53 per cent. in 192S over 1927 and by 37.47 per cent. over 1026. Theft, as usual, continued to in- crease, the figures for 19'S being 10.52 per cent, over those for 1927 and 1S,02 per cent. over 1926. In the miscel- laneous class greatest augmentation is shown in branches of gambling and lottery cards, which in 1928 were 54.52 per cent. above 192? and 155.09 per cent. above 1926. The sum total of al convictions of adult offenders in 1928 was 267,483 as against 212,076 in 1927 and 137,361 in 1926, Of the 26,693 charges for indictable offences in 1928, there were 4,918 ac- quittals, 10 cases of nolle prosequi, or stay of proceedings, 7 cases in which "no bill' was returned by the grand jury, and 38 persons were detained for lunacy, leaving 21,720 convictions. French Defense Fund $116,000,000 To Guard Rhine Fortifications on Alsace and Lorraine Frontier to, Cost $40,000,000 Paris.—The Chamber of Deputies, Dec. 23, voted appropriations of 2,900,- 000,000 francs (approximately $116,- 000,000) 116;000,000) for national defensse. This is the complete program of expend - tures for the years from 1930 and 1934 along French frontiers. An. apropriatiou of 1,000,000,000 francs for 1930 along the, Rhineland frontier in Alsace and Lorraine was voted Dec. 27. The defense of the french frontier s as planned by the general staff and approved by the army commission of the Chamber of Deputios, envisages the placing of preponderant emphasis on anti-aircraft defense, the president of tike commission told the Chamber during renewed discussion on the frontier defense measure. The complete measure outlines a program costing,900,000,000 francs, of which 1,000,000,000 francs for 1930 wore 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 case of war 400,000 men from northern Ai'rk'n. High Commissioners Auckland Star, N.Z.: The suggested break front the custom of appointing a, political supporter to the .high Com- missionershlp Is worth-`inaking if a suitable man can be found. The dif- ficulty is, however, that both inside and outside politics the necessary combination of qualities is very hard to commie by. The postition has grown much more important than It was a generation ago, The High Cemmnls- sioner should not be only a first-rate business man and a good speaker, but a diplomat well Versed in interna- tional affairs, He now has to go to Geneva and represent New Zealand at a gathering of sixty nations. Are there many -Melt mein in New Lea - land? We should. not like to kayo 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 Loudon, taking lives of many British seafaring men. Convicts Fight Against Dire Fate Portuguese Convicts Mutiny on Prison Ship; Quel- led uelled After Desperate Fight at Sea Lisbon, Portugal. — The Colonial Office reports that a serious mutiny among convicts on a Portuguese pri- son ship hound for the African peni- tentiary at Loanda, Angola, had been duelled only after desperate hand -to. hancl fighting. The reports said the convict' ship Guinea was conveying 126 long-term prisoners when the outbreak came. The ship was within five miles of the coast when the convicts made a wild dash for freedom, savegely attacking the guards and 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 then 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 uuder a strong escort. Australian Finance Johannesburg Star: The new Labor Government will have no light task in adjusting the economic conditions of the Commonwealth to what are its obvious requirements. One of the chief problems is the raising of the public revenue to the level at' which it will meet the current expenditure, including the heavy animal interest charge on the national debt—either that or such a reduction of expendi- ture as seems hardly practicable. An- other problem is to stimulate produc- tion without lowering the wage level throughout 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 heads of the Soviet Foreign Office told a corres- pondent recently. in view of the fact that the last Soviet trade delega- tion. was expelled from Cando 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 cousiderable volume of trade between. Russia and Canada. "Russia ,still imports large quantities " of horses, Iivestock, agri- cultural equipment, cement, etc., but because of the unfriendly attitude of the Canadian Government, we prefer to hay these elsewhere now," he said. Would Be Considered Iu 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 Oa five stated that on the ground that it was a purely hypothical question, he could not make any answer. The cor- respondent is of the opinion, however, that any friendly gesture from Can- ada would be well received here. Tree Seed for Overseas By special arrangemnenit 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. i xis alio May Destroy Eskimos Arctic Natives Threatened •With Extinctiori, r Auth» • orities Say WHITE MAN CAUSE • Easily Succumbs To Ailments of Almost Every White Child Qttawa.-- Sig thousand Eskimos liv ing eheerfully in Arctic and sub -Arctic Cana.la, 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 menace to the Eskimo which will prove one of the dilemmas of northern development, they say, Totally without. immunity to white man's diseases, the Eskimo, succumbs to ailments which are considered minor misfortunes in the life of almost every white child. He suffers from Malnutrition when fed white man's food, and yet he gorges himself with it whenever possible. He contracts tuberculosis from wearing store cloth- ing under unsuitable conditions, and yet he likes them. Measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, grippe and other ailments he gets from the white man himself, and yet he is most happy in his company. • CREAT KILLER. He turns the advantage of trade with the white man into an agency for his destruction. Despite his friendly nature 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 country into a land of hunger, 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 plan in icy lands where the, latter cannot Iive long. Those who have been associated with the Eskimo longest say civiliza- tion, uncurbed, will do one of three things to him: Absorb him, kill him, or drive him northward. 1DUCATION NEEDED They are confident, however, that something can be clone to help the Eskimo save himself. Education, they believe, will develop within his happy- go-lucky mind a sense of providence which will enable him to look after his future food supply and to treat bis 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 Bila when he is far away from 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 clo so, but does not seem to care if he never has, another. A well-known London clergyman who enjoyed my story 0f Everett Bad- ger (`Is it nice?" writes to say that it reminds him of a man who, walk- ing alk-ing with the late Rev. 0, II. Spur- geon, passed a shop bearing the no- tice, "Smith's Shirt Store." Spur- geon glanced up, "Oh, poor chap," he exclaimed, "he must have caught it on a nail!" It took the other man an hour to discover what he meant. He is the freeman whom the truth. makes free, and all are slaves beside, —Cowper. Our Heavy Snows Chaanged Transportation Views MOTORISTS SEND S.O.S. POR OLD-t10/IE HELP /Inky farnt horse was needed here to get; this car up the steep hill, near .Cookeville, after Highway, was cloak- ed in recent snowfalls, 'Plane Saved From Wreck By Daring Feat of Mechanic Jim Cusator Climbs Out and Holds Ski in Place for Alighting CAUSE OF MISHAP Prince Albert, Saslc.--.Aviators ill 'the northland have a new hero. He is Jinx Cusator, quiet and reserved air mechanic, who in one of the most dor. ing and brave feats in aviation annals of the North most probably saved his own life and his pilot's here recently, In defiance of the relentless laws of gravity, Cusator, dangling by his arms in space in the 70 -anile -an -.tour blast from the propeller, righted a tilted left ski and held it in, a horizon- tal position until the machine had come to rest in safety on the ice -locked surface of the river here. Intimation of the e.erilous situation of the pilot, Geoff Homesay, and aero mechanic Cusator, came first to pilots and mechanics of other machines whc stood by to watch the graceful Stinson Detroiter take of from the river on a test flight a few minutes after it had arrived from Saskatoon. RIGHT SKI 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 fusilage the front end dipped down at a dan- gerous angle. Experienced pilots knew that in landipg 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 of 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 cabin door, grasped the handles securely and lowered his body through the opening. Observers- breathlessly watched hila 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 cane to rest the hero mechanic was covered from head 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, New Land Fol nd In Antarctic Norweigian Flag is Raised on Territory Found Near South Pole Oslo, Norw.—Capt. Riiser Larsen, who is participating in an Antarctic exploring expedition in the steamer Norkegia, reports to the newspaper, Tidens Tegn, Dec. 28, that he and kis fellow airman, Lieut. Luetzow Holm, have discovered stew laud between Enderby Lancs 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 cf their country accord- ing to international forms. They then returned to the Nor wegia, which was waiting 100 miles away, Enderby Laud Is located at the eastern extremity of the so-called Enderby Quadrant of Antarctica, in about 50 east 05 south. Coats Land is located at tine western edge of the Enderby Quadrant: at about 20 west 75 south, - Ontario Will Preserve Prehistoric Indian Fort • Montreal. --.The Sonthwold earth- works, an old Indian stronghold near St. Thomas, Out., famous among archaeologists as the only prehistoric Indian double -walled fortification of which 'remains have been found, has been saved from. c blivfon by the inter- vention of the historic sites division, of the natural parks branch at Ot• taws. Preservation is now assured.' The old fort, the walls of which have crumbled so that they are noir not more than three feet high, is thought to have been one spot at which the people of a neutral nation made their last stand against the war- like advances of the Iroquois, who finally drove tbeln from Ontario about 250 years •ego. The site covers an area of about three acres, The fort was protooted by a doable line of earthworks which completely unclosed it. The "moat" between the two Ovalis was about thirty feet hi width. It is thought likely that a palisade of high, sharp - sued logs, Set vertically, formed the superstructure atop the earthwork.