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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1930-01-16, Page 3Canada's Air Mail Services Expand ;,postal Fliers Play Leading .Role m Developing Northland TWELVE ROUTES Montreal to Vancouver in 36 Hours is Immediate Goal Ottawa.—Canada is.rolliug her niali northward, The cry to go west is: giving way, to the call of the North and in pushing back Abe frontier— with untold millions in riches of the Canadian Northland as the magnet— the Dominion's air mail service is playing a leading role. More than 1,000,000 miles have been traversed in the year 1929 by Can-. ada's air mail planes. Nearly an- other million utiles iu air Mail ser- vice will be added for 1930'by the opeuing on Feb. 1 of the Winuipeg- '-Regina-Calgary air mailroute with offshoots to Saskatoon, North Battle- -ford and Edmonton. To points three hundred miles within the Arctic Circle, Canadian mail planes travel, 011, gold, silver, copper, nickel and fur -trapping ceu- tree in Ontario, Quebec and Western Canada to -day are being serried by these aerial nail carriers, making more habitable the backwood dis- tricts with little or no road communi- cation. Regular Services IIx Ontario's Northland, the Red Lake and Narrow Lake mining can - Quebec. Christmas Tragedy Averted Virginia.Baked Poisoned Cake' is Traced in Tilde CONTAINED ARSENIC Flour Inadvertently Mixed tiX�ith. Insecticide—Baker is 111 Washington.—How Nealelan and American officials in Washington and Qtiebec Cite traced- a cake hea:'ily charged • with arsenic and probably saved the lives, of a Canadian family averting a Christmas tragedy was re- vealed by G. P. Dauber assistant chief of the food and drug administration here. A neat bit of detective' Work by Inspector G. P. Larrick, of the United States Department of Agricul- ture, a. telephone call from the office .ef Merchant DfaliOney at the Canadian Legation to authorities in Quebec City ande the deadly cake containing flour inadvertently mixed with an in- secticide was ou its way back to Washington in an unopened pack- age bearing a Christmas seal and the warning statnli of the Canadian Gov- ernment—poison. The cake was ene of nine Mane - baked in Virginia for the Christmas trade. The woman who made the cake is said to be in a serious condi- tion as a result of eating some of her baking. She soicl most of the cakes a week or so before Christmas and one of them was sampled with serious consequences. A dentist is said to have brought a piece of cake to the Department of Agriculture where an tres have their regular deliveries of analysis tliscioied the arsenic coat- mail by air. Far north of Quebec tent. On Dee. 19 the cake v'as put City, the Chibouga.tnaan mining clic• into the bands of Inspector Larrick friar, has a periodical service from and within a short time all but one of •Oskelanes. Even to Fort Resolution,the cartes bad been rounded up. Hay River, Fort Providence, fort Traced by Cheque Simpsoil and other points in the area The ninth cake the baker said was of Great Slave Lake, along whose sold to a young woman she did not shores gold has lately been found, air know. Fortunately she remembered mail planes of the Dominion wing the cake had been paid or by cheque. their way. To Fort Norman, too, The bank where the cheque was scene of recent oil discoveries and cashed traced it. Over Sunday, Dec. one of the great fur trapping centres, 23, the signer cif the cheque was the air mail service extends. found and a long distance call was illi- 1)og teems and ice -breakers are giv- ing way to the advance of the air- plane. The three weeks'trip by dog team to Seven Islands from Quebec is replaced by a weekly -air mail de- livery tatting three hours' alight to accomplish. Anticosti and the Mag- dalen iasdalen Islaiuls have their air mail ser- vices end are no longer dependent on the comparatively slow ice -breaker. Twelve Air Routes To -day, 12 air mail router are in operation; Montreal -Detroit; Mont- treal-:1.lbany; Toronto -Buffalo; Mont- real - Ottawa; Montreal - lalmouslti; .Quebec -Seven Islands; Qaehec-Anti- A Brief Breather from 00 Cold Blasts Vic.•:,:,''. THEIR EXCELLENCIES TOUR ,THE WEST INDIES The Governor-General and Lady Willingdon find their party en the R.M.S. Lady Hawkins during their West Indies holiday cruise, Wan them is little Margaret Goldsmith of Newmarket, Ontario. France Has Found Year 1929 Costly But Thrift Effort Has Pro- duced Impressive Pros- perity Spectacle Paris. -The year 1929 goes into history, for the French, as one of in- ternational nternational liquidation. Stabilization cost them 80 per cent.. of the value of the franc,—conse- quently 80 per cent. of the face value of the Government bonds they held. Liquidation cost them 70 per cent. of mediately put through to Quebec to the amount they expected Germany the family to whom tate cake had been to pay in reparations. It cost them sent. About noon the legation here also about 20 million narks a year called the Quebec authorities and two additional to satisfy th eclaims of the hours later a call came back' an- British. nouncing the dangerous Christmas Yet, as the old year goes out, Paris present had been put in the mail for is gay and France generally is reacts - Washington Officials settled back sured and confident. to enjoy a merry Christmas satisfied One reason for the fortitude with that what might have been a very which those sacrifices have been sup - disastrous day was largely saved. ported is that the French have work- ed so hard to pay their taxes that their extra effort has given France an unhoped for prosperity. The deficits Number of Auto Fatalities Higher with which suacoeaiva souarnann.Ata„ strugied a few years ago have become surpluses and now comes tax reduc testi; Moncton - Magdalen Islands; , Statistics Show Toll. of..- 1 13 tion, with continued amortization of Lake -Sioux Lookout; Lac du Bonnet- Leamington - Pelee Island; NarrowT .fives Around Toronto the public debt. During Year 1929 This remarkable financial recovery produced the accommodating state of mind without`which there could have been no 'Young plan, no e.aeuation of the Rhineland, and no effective recon- ciliation with Germany. ga- , "Up, the Guards!" Loudon Daily l!lxpress (Ind. C1, 'I': Bisset; Fort McMurray - Aklavik; Mentrectl-St. :frhn, and ask elan Two great connecting links which world complete a trans -Canada air mail service are mooted for the near future --one from Montreal to lWinni• Peg; tate other from Calgary, Leth- bridge or Edmonton to 'Vancouver. Early in the new year Canadian air officials contemplate making a snrvey to determine the best route from Alberta to the Pacific coast, This fact louds color . to the probability that Parliament may be asked at the next session to intake fhe necessary apropn•iation for these new routes. A 36 hour air mail service from Mont- veal ontreal to. Vancouver is the goal, Indian Aspirattions Times of India (Bombay) : Iris Ma- losts's Government, through Ills Ex- cellency the Viceroy, has by a frank and cordial expression of lea inten- tions made a generous gesture for In- dian co-operation. In responding to that vesture India should not hesi- tate unreservedly to support Lord Ir- win. The Viceroy deserves. well of the country. Whatever the Prelimin- ary mistakes with regard, to the Si - num Commission niay have been, Lord Irwin Lias given the fullest prac- tical proof of his cicep sympathy with Ia.diau aspirations and of his earnest desire to further them by reel] -order - rid methods. The Base at Singapore Auckland Weekly News: Those wito regard cessation of the develop- ment of the base, beyond the private- ly -owned docks in the south of the is- land of Singapore, as an impressive gesture of peace, are in error. The considered judgment of the Washing- . ton Conference of 192122, the favor- ing declaration of holland at a de- cislon ntakiug secure from inolenta- tion her valuable possessions in the East Indies, all emphasize the peace- ful intent represented hi the plan de- veloping the base. .With each foreign • agreement about that intent, it is straining facts beyond reason to speak of cessation of work at Singa- pore as a gesture of peace. Allot Now Detroit Free Press: "The • average Wen= spends gore time thanmoney when she goes shopping."—Chicago News. Not at this time of the year, brother.. Toronto.—Motor vehicles, took a toll of 113 lives in and- about '.l'orcnn`e during 1929, au increase of 35 over 1928, according to statistics released by Edward Armour, secretary of the chief' coroner's department. Sudden and violent deaths tor tate year total 1,099 as compared with 634 last year. During the year there three murders and 61 suicides: Fire losses for the year, according to incomplete figures amounted to ap- proximately $2,276,973. Mr. Thomas' Relief Schemes The Edinburgh Weekly Scotsman (Cons.): Mr. Thomas's schemes are absolutely barren of new ideas to give a permtul tut uplift to industry. They are , relief t;chenies—nothing more—and the most disturbing fen- ture is that alley can clo nothing be- sloe of the stage from marrying into youd .meeting the increase of unem- regiments that of late years have ployment that has' occurred since the kept so resolutely in step, with the Government took office. march of democracy. Radio Reaches Byrd While Phone Waits • Captain Railey Holds Wire as Messages With Antarctic Are Exchanged in 20 Minutes • Describing the radio service be- tween New York and the Autarctic as `nothing short of black magic" Captain ll. H. Railey, Admiral Byrd's manager, gave an example of fine ser- vice. recently, "Requiring an immediate reply from Admiral Byrd on matters that had developed after the closing of my office in New fork." he said, "I sat at the telephone in my study, telephoned the operators in the radio room of the New York Times and dictated the messages t wished to transmit to Lit- tle America, emphasizing the urgency at exactly 9.30. "'Vold the phone,' was the laconic rejoinder of the operator, I overheard him say "Railey wants to get these messages (he had copied them) to w '"Par-enm---tnrotign-ceml ,.b-'rti•...'tLYx answer:: He's holdiu' the Wire: 'While I field that wire, those mes- sages went through and in less than five minutes the operator reported: Lofgren , (Admiral Byrd's secretary) says hold on a minute or two: Byrd is replying.' "At 9:50 1 hung up—with Admiral Byrd's answer in my hands. 'Believe it or not!" Captain Raiiey's enthusiastic citar- aeterization of the service as "black magic," however; was thought too British Farmers Prince of Wales , Deplore Condition I Off For Africa George Hanitbletori, Canadian Will Resume Hunting Trip, Interrupted by Royal Father's Illness TO RETURN IN APRIL; Heir to Throne Will Visit Dis- affected Distracts With Earl of Athlone Press Writer, Gives Re- view of Situation as He Finds it London—Gloom is deepening over the broad acres. of British farmlands. The farmers of East Arigile, Where. the depression in agriculture is meet severe, are organiing a monster peti- tion nailing the attention of the gov- ernment to the "deplorable Bondi- London,—Without any ceremonial tion" of British agriculture, They Suss, Which he abhor:., the Prince of complain that with current prices,- Wales left last Friday on a four they cannot make both ends meet, month "go -as -you -please" hunting trip in Africa. Onee he stepped aboard the. steamship Kenilworth. Castle et:South- ampten docks there is to be no set program. Ho joins the Union Castle liner as an ordinary first -el; r„s pas- senger with every :formality taboo, taking his )mals with the other 500 tourists abc^.rd, waited on in the ordi- nary way and free ;o roam all over the ship. When he arrives at Captown, how- ever, it is hinted, he will get a new thrill, for when he resumes his hunt- ing trip, interrupted just over a. year ago by his father's serious illness, he ill reach his base at Dodoma in the Lake Tanganyika territory by 'plane. The tendeacy of farmers to turn arable lands to grass is resulting in diminished employment for farm workers. Farm workers at the sane time are resisting and attempts to re- duce their pay, and they want the benefits of the dole. At present the "unemployment insurance scheme" does not apply to agricultural work- ers. The unrest in the agricultural areas follows, paradoxically, on the heels of a bumper crop. Britain produced ap- proximately 100,000 more hundred- weights of wheat in 1929 than in 1928, and this on 65,000 fewer acres. The estimated wheat yield of 1929 was 19.1 hundredweights per acre, TO USE PLANE against 18.1 in 1928 and an average for the past 10 years of 17.3. The hundredweight contains 112 pounds. But the farmer contends iris "heavy crop" is largely a delusion. Under the pressure of Argentine and Ger- man wheat, prices have been forced down to a level too low for profitable wheatgrowing. The farm worker re- plies that what the farmer needs are better marketing methods, citing the instance of the Canadiau wheat pools. Says Hullabloo Groundless "The land worker," the official or- gan of the National Union of Agricul- tural Workers, refers somewhat un- kindly to the East Anglican Farmers' campaign as "the Norfolk farmers' pantomime," It adds: "The Norfolk farmers have not had the best year in their experience, and they are therefore telling the world they had tate worst. But, if facts are called for to back up this hullabaloo, a f promenade deck. Two cabins have been iiereed into one, forming a sit- ting room suite, the only change made being the substitution of a bed for a bunk in the adoining sleeping com- partment. Once at sea the Prince's holiday starts. It is his habit while on the ocean to take a great deal of exercise every day, medicine ball being one of his favorite mediums. Wearing He had intended to go thereto by automobile but owing to the unusually prolonged "short rainy season" the roads are not practicable. Capt. Denys Finch -Hatton, who is arranging the details far 'the Prince's hunting -trip, regularly uses this form of transport through the big game country, and thus, unless the roads dry out much more rapidly. than is now probable, the Prince will fly from place to place searching for the big fellows he wants to complete the "bag" which was only half full when he left Dodoma in a hurry a year ago. Much of the Prime's baggage, in- cluding new guns and revolvers for use in the jungle is aboard the liner, but some of his hunting kit and favorite rifles are at Dodoma where he left them. The Prince's cabin aboard the Kenil- worth Castle opens right on to the strange silence falls." The index figures of wheat prices compiled by the ministry of agricul- ture has risen four poiuts within a month. It still stood in December, however, at 28 as against 31 in 1038 and 34 in 1927. • The number of agricultural work- ers who would come under the unem a sports' "ruffneck" sweater probably ployMent insurance scheme is esti-, far from new, lie will join the other mated. at 809,000, including Scotland. among these are es passengers in throwing the ball. The unemployed iimatidato average 56,000 a year. Ther RETURNS IN APRIL. land workers alsd tivirlit a ]orver:seane * . Meer -• s'Pendiltn about c,. week • In. of contributions t0 unemployment in- ; Capetown as a guest of his uncle, the Earl of Athlone, Governor-General of South Africa, he will visit with the the city ri'orker. 4 Earl and Countess the disaffected na- The situation has great political ' tive.districts from which troubles were significance. it is in the rural areas reported recently, and counts upon that the Conservatives find their being able to obtain first-hand knowl- clrief strength. The Labor Daily edge of the situation. Further north, Herald editorially observes that with- however, that is to say in Nothern out a greater measure of agricultural Rhodesia, Tanganyika and parts of suport, the government can hardly hope to secure a parliamentary ma- surauce, ou the ground they are :un- able to Meet the scale levied upon much by. triose who operate the radio.' )ority essential to its efficient work - Protests are still rising against the fug in the future. decision of the Brigade of Guards They explained that the service was "In these circumstances," the Her - that any officer must resign who be- particularly good at this time; that rad adds, "Rt. Hoe. Noel Buxton,hemil comes engaged to an actress. We conditions were most favorable and that all that could be done to facili- ister of agriculture, might not unrea- feel, however,, that the splendid stir tate and speed up messages was be souablb* recommence to the farmers pidity of this edict is not properly ing clone. understood, and .that the wiud of dis- approval should be tempered to the shorn moustache. Witlt full know - lodge of the chivalry sof a gallant Haw! Haw! corps it is quite obvious that the rule Washingtozr post: Dr, Otto Jasper - Is intended to safeguard the aristn- son has invented a new language crate women who crowd the prof es- which he says sounds "better than a Dane's Eng]ish or an Englishman's Danish," but unles it sounds better than an Englishman's English it won't be worth much. The Sun! Spots Are Sure Making SOrne Spots' .Cold A lot more people ]rave discovered that Wall Street doesn't conneect uviol Vero Is no doubt about iiasy Street., this picture was taken. ,t IT'S the seasons in CHILLY WHERE COLD 1S GOLD the Porcupine gold camp area. It was only 50 degrees below zor When Kenya and Uganda, he will be in the places which he will hunt for the prim- ary purpose of his trip, which is big - game hunting. It is known that he has long been especially keen to -beg a big rhinoceros. The hunting will be good until the long rains begin, which is usually about the last of March. that they should reconsider their past It is expected that he will be buck polit.fcal allegiance." in England at the end of April o3• early in May. Firewood • Detroit News: The United States Church and 'State in. Italy Manchester. Guardian (Lib.): The is still dependent in a large measureI upon fireweed for fuel. Few persons Fascist .State is the strangest and realize that more trees are cut for most uncomfortable bed -fellow for this purpose than anything else Or•• the Catholic Church. Au agreement dinarIly one would think that lumber with the old Liberal regime to restore exacted the greatest drain upon` our tcarritoriat sovereignty to the Pops timber resources, but this runs eec- might not have been possible, .but it - ond to firewood. It Is estimated that could and would have •safeguarded 9,500,000 cubic feet of wood finds its way into home lire Voxes annually. Lumber is second with 8.250,000 cubie feet and then there is a big drop clown to fencing listed at 1,800,000 cubic feet. Railroad ties come fourth' with pulpwood and mitre thebers fifth. Civil Re-establishment in China NOW York Timee: What to do with the millions of soldiers who overrun China is still an unsolved pilule. Dis- banded, they become bandits, To the Church's freedom within the body politic. But by his egreein`ent with Mussolini the Pope seems in danger 'of having secrifla'ed the substance to the shadow; he has gained,abstiluts liberty within the - very limited aired of the Vatican City, but aptly condi- tional freedom for .rho Church out- side it. - Labor and Empire ; Natal Advertiser; It is and' ed as welcome sign of improvement to fatal a Labor man like i'tr. igen Tillett, lh former secretary of the Doc -hers' Union, publicly exhorting hondcrrmvee maintain them costs millions. Thea of the Old Country to "buy Bi'itt'i " money to pay them and to meet the l when doing their Christmas shep- other governmental expenditures is the crux of the whole matter. Funds are no longer so easy to get as they were. A long succession of bandit war lords have (trained the country. A system of "voluntary obligations" has been successfully used to extract money from. Chinese men of wealth. The tax colloctions have been ex- working-clae.e interest in the po Ieti- tended as Intel' as the country would ties of Britain end her Empire is one tolerate. But always the need is for of the brightest aspect,: of a some - more casha what gloomy period, SUCCESS `- -•:� SAFETY Whoever starts off in life With the idea. "I shall succeed," always does Oh, the comfort, the inte,10reseihts succeed because he does what is neves- comfort of feeling safe with it persnnt sary to bring about this result. If --having neither to weigh thought only one opportunity presents itself nor measure words, but pouring them to him, and if this opportunity bas all right out just as they itri', nl:at'f as it were only one hair on its head, and grain together; as Certain that a he seizes it by that one iiiair. Fur- faithful hand ivili take and sift tinenn, thee, he often brings about, ancon- keep what is Worth keeping and with seiously or riot, propitious ciroum. the breath of comfort blow the reet -;taucee:Emile Cous, fway: Buri.' T',ht1ock Crailt, ping. In tate past Labor has dallied so closely with an anaemic; int,>rne- tionelisrn as to be generally suspect of preferring rho claims of any other nation to those of her own, but .pmet- war problems have brought the theorists up against tate sharp logic of facts and the cnneet cont revival of