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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1930-06-26, Page 6British Girl on Way To Race.Speedboat 1. Rockefeller Gifts Reach Vast Total Miss'Betty Carstairs, Undaunt- ed by Segzave's Death, Hopes to Win at Detroit I itdo'n- ^Miss Betty Carstairs, daunted. by the recent tragic death of Sir Henry Segrave at Lake Whaler - mere, sailed aboardthe steamship Berengaria for the Vatted States with 'her .motor boat Estelle V, with which. she tropes to establish a new speed record at Detroit. She will be the only British en- trant for the. 'International (I-Iarnis- worth) Troph, as the result of Sir ,Henry's fatal inju 'es when his chal- lenger, the Miss England II, over- turned while going at a speed of about 100 miles an hour. Miss Carstairs expressed sleep re- gret at the death of her rival" and. friend, but said that she would not change her plans as she was deter- mined for the sake of British pres- tige to snake a good fight for the trophy against her American oppon-I ents. JJ ..The Prince of Wales, who was much interested in the exploits of Sir Henry Segrave, sent a Message of sympathy. to Lady Segrave. It read: • "Please accept my deepest sympa- thy in your's:an1 the country's great loss." Australia Red ces Naval Expenditure Saving of $ 1,500,000 in Ex- penditure on National Defence Effected Canberra, Australia—A saving of $1,500,000 expeudit"re on national de- fense and the grant of one million pounds, or about $4,550,000, toward the state governments for unemploy- ment relief, were announced in the Offer of Park to the City Re- calls the Long List of Benefactions John D, Rockefeller Jr.'s recent of- fer to the City of New York of a $13,000,000 park and museum recalls the long list of gifts ••made by the Rockefeliers, father and son, in the United States and abroad. It is esti- mated that they have given nearly $750,000,000, three-fourths of that sum since 1911, for work that has proinot- 'eel health, education, •scientific re- search and international good -will, John D. Rockefeller Sr. built up a fabulous fortune (conservatory ,esti- mated at $1,000,000,000), and then directed his energies into a new ohaui- eel—the business of giving away money: John D. Rockefeller Jr. wise- ly shepherds the fortune, the major Part of. which, is said to have been turned over to him, :and administers, with others, much of the expenditure of the great funds created by his father. He, too, makes personal. gifts. In round figures he is known to have given $70,000,000 to far-reaching en- terprises. There is a difference in the meth- ods Of the two men. The father or gauized a great benevolent machine, and gave the world a new means of dealing constructively With social and physical needs, The son is a Quake Shakes Burma Y One of first photographs to reach this country of earthquake ie. Pegu, ancient capital of Burma, when town was reduced to ashes and nearly 1,000 lives lost. _ _ builder, and his imagination leads *�TT frim to structural. expressions, His Canadian Cattle l�➢® wage Yri FY'Ult- �a�ane�e wing efforts in this direction, not long ago, brought him an invitation to become Purchased by U S. Ripening Process In Hawaii Puzzled an honorary member of the American 2hildren Breaking Away from Traditional Family Bonds Institute of Architects Workers Hindered By Noise and Heat Swampscott, Mass.—Climatic condi- tions, coupled with noise from the streets, have a decidedly bad effect upon some classes of office employees, according to P. 13. Griswold, assistant secretary of the AetnaLife Insurance Company, who spoke recently at the House of Assembly recently. The closing session of the National Office Prime Minister said the unemploy Management Association's convention at the new •Ocean House, anent grant would be made from rev- enue. He further said that in view of, the financial stringency the Gov- ernment would accept the advice of the naval board and transfer the naval college from, Jarvis Bay to Flinders Naval Base, Victoria. The Minister of Defense; Hon. E. A. Green, announced that with the re- vision to. the Royal Navy of a num- ber of officers who had been loaned to the Australian Navy, with reduc- tions in the civil staff of the navy of- fices, the paying off of the crew of the destroyer Success, and the plac- ing of all submarines in immediate reserve instead of active commission, the Government's defense. Expendi- ture had been cut by £326,000 or about $1,550,000. • Hungarian Partridge Distributed in B.C. Fredericton, N.B.—The first Hungar- ian partridge to be distributed in New Brunswick for the purpose of 'aug- menting its game bird resources are. being set free along the Bay of Fundy shore, Saint. John County, by H. G. Chestnut, of Fredericton. There were recently received from Czecho- Slovakia, two shipment.; of 25 pairs of this variety of game bird, which has already been reared in the wild state in Alberta and the eastern states with much success. Only one bird out of each shipment was lost in transit from Europe. Two years ago other Fredericton sportsmen • interested themselves in stocking the forests of the province .with ring-necked English pheasants ,and the specimens placed in the woods in central ,New Brunswick. have With- stood the' rigorol'• waiter weather well and are reported to be increas- ing. • Baby 'Pets Deadly Snake • As It Steals His Milk Melbourne, Australia—William Me- Clennate of Fawkner, found his son, Robert, twelve months old stroking a tiger snake, which was drinking con- iten.dtedly •the baby's bottle. When McClennan chased the snake it turm ed on hin and bit his leg. Emergency aneasureS, saved his life, The snake VMS ldilell, . • The child's parents recalled that the baby's bottle had appeared as if the snake had been. at it several times recently. They assume the re- lytile end ° the baby had been play- mates .for laymatesfor some time. Ancient City Found Mexico City.—The discovery of an ancient buried city, which archaeolo- gists believe dates back to the antedi- luvian period, near the town of Rio de Las Playas, state, of Vera Cruz, was reported June 5 in a Puerto Mexico dispatch to the newspaper Excelsior. ''Representatives of oil companies prospecting in the practically unin- habited region discovered the buried city. Only the roofs of a, few of the tallest buildings are visible above the earth, the Excelsior dispatch said, Slight excavation revealed hierogly phics • which are reported to resemble +cuneiform characters as well, as mum• mies and pottery. "Well, can't you decide? It never takes Hie more than, a Minute 'to make up fee mind," "I'm not surprised, my dear; It shouldn't take anyone more ,-hand minute to make up your mind." He advanced two thoughts with re- spect to the general effect of noise on the efficiency of office workers, point-, ing out that experiments have shown, that by reason of the nature of the work as well as the type of the work- er in some establishments a certain degree of noise, provided it is at a proper pitch, has a beneficial effect upon and increases the efficiency of the worker. He stresses that in one definite instance loss of *efficiency in one group of workers ascribed to warm weather in the summer months was directly traceable to street noises entering the office through the open -- gales Throughout Dominion Exceptionally Good Many Farms Visited Private sales of Holstein cattle throughout Canada have been excep- tionally' good lately, accordrrg to the Extension Service Department of the Holstein Breeders' Association, which reports both the hone and foreign de- mand mole active than earlier in the year. The exports to the United States alone have totalled more than 1,400 head since Jan. 1, while shipments have also been made to Japan, South America and the British West Indies. During the past two weeks several American breeders have been in Can- ada looking for Holsteins, one of these representing a very large bieeding establishment, spending several days of this week in Western Ontario in- specting the herds with a view to buy- ing 100 head of high class cows and bred heifers. • Canada Increases Trade With Japan Canada's' trade relations with Japan windows. have been steadily improving in re•; cent years. In the last five years, Aviator Sets New Canadian exports to that country have risen by over .6 per cent., while MI - Altitude Rec rd ports of Japanese goods into. Canada have almbst cloalled. During the U.S. Lieutenant Pushes Plane Over Eight Miles Above Earth Washington.—Lieut. Apollo Soucek ascended higher into the heavens than', roan has ever been before when he nosed his little monoplane more than eight exiles up :recently to set a new world altitude record, official calibra- tion of his barograph revealed. The bureau of standards calibration showed that the navy flier attained the unprecedented height of 43,166 feet. Tho new record exceeds by 1,372 feet the 41, 794 foot mark of Willi Neuen-, hoffen of Germany.• angsters' Plans G Defeated by Police last year there has been a drop in exports and a slight falling off in im- ports. The decline in imports is .negligible R while the decrease in ex- ports is ,one more instance of the in- fluence of the state of the grain trade • whirls has led to a fall iii. Canada's exports to many countries, Detroit—Members of gangland who are equipping their cars with low wave radio sets, that they utay • tune in on the broadcasts of police depart- ments are in for disappointment with the announcement recently by Glenn W. Watson a Detroit inventor, Wat- son has perfected an instrument that by wireless will type the messages on a machine ill the pruising cars. With this new invention officials will receive reports of crimes with- out gangland knowing anything abotit it. The machines will be so syn- chronized that they •will take down the messages being sent out only to machines "set" for such messages, China . Destroys German Church • Shanghai,—One of China's first places of Christian worship, the old Germanichurcli in the Consulate area, is to be demolished. A $1,500,000 theatre„ the largest and most luxuri- ous in the:Far East, Is planned for the site. ; • Bobbies. Will Not' Get White Coats London.—Policemen clothed all in white are no more easily visible at night than officers with white gauntlets on their blue. coats ,it has been deter- mined after exhaustive tests carried out under the Commissioner of Police. Therefore, the proposed innovation of putting policemen into white over- coats will not be carried out, it it an- nounced. Spanish, King Shares In Mother's Estate 1VIadricl.--Becauso 'tbe Queen Moth- er, Maria Christina, died without ieav- ifig a will, her estate will be divided, so that King Alfonso win recei .e.one- thrid Emit the heirs of his two dead sisters the reniailider. The estate totals about $3,000,000, and its settle- ment ‘Va5 Lunde rncently with Premier r a'.d sucker -of ,Tnstice Es- Mar/ Riddle, fuli.bleed'ee 20 -yeas -old Quinault Indian in trade as while:,,.�.5. to be first of her race to wire ah' pilot's license, ' Experiments Prove No Harm in • Ethylene Method— Sun-Ripened Fruit Better There is no danger to health from the ethylene process of coloring to- matoes and citrus fruits to snake them appear as though they had ripened on the vine, experts of the Department of agriculture have found as a result of extensive experiments in artificial ripening. Drs. D: B..Jones and E. M. Nelson, chemists of the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, in a recent report to 'the American Public Health As- sociation, declared, howev6r, that fruit. treated with the ethylene process does not have all of the vitamins of that ripened on tree or vine. • 'Experiments with tomatoes showed that those permitted to ripen fully on the vine are superior in vitamin con- tent and food value to those picked green and' then treated with ethylene gas to give the rich red color of ripe- ness. ipeness. It was also found, on the other hand, that the ethylene 'process re- sponsible for the glowing red color has apparently no effect of a harmful nature on the vitamins which have al- ready formed in the green fruit. The chemical' treatment, however, stops the development of the tomato: • Two Claim Plane Records Dessau—A Junkers junior baby plane' -with pontoons has added two new world records to its list of five recently established. The new re- cords are an endurance flight of six- teen hours and twenty-eight minutes without a passenger, and a distance flight of 2,100 kilometers (about 1,200 miles) over a closed course. Tee world's smallest all -metal plane developed an average., speed of 165 kilometers (about 1)2 miles) and hour during the endurance test. Budapest --Arpad Lampich, an engi- neer, established what is believed to be ,a record non-stop flight for small airDlafes recently when he covered 1,000 kilometers (about 620 miles) in a midget plane weighing 200 kilo- grams, flying a circuit between Buda - peat and Mayon. Indian Maiden Gets Her Wings Customs of ancient Japan clashing with those of modern America, says "The Washington Star," are perplex- ing the elder Japanese hi Hawaii, who see their children growing up largely apart from traditional family influence' This is a subject which is receiving more and more discussion in Japanese civic, social and business organizations and in the "vernacular" Japanese press of Hawaii. One .,apanese editor frequently de- votes leading editorials to comment on the problem of this "secoifd genera- tion:" A particular instance of the perplexity is in tha relationship be- tween a young married couple and the elder "in-laws" with whom they live. In Japan youngsters are obedient and submissive to the father and mother or the father-in-law or -other-in-law, but in Hawaii the young folk, thinking' and acting as Americans, wish to enjoy freedom of thought and action. Drillers Strike Oil Winnipeg.—Oil and gas areas are so widespread along the Sturgis cut- off utoff in Northeast Saskatchewan that the Canadian National Railways' work- erg are unable to meet immediate suc- cess in drilling for water, according to word received recently by railway officials. G. C. Briggs, engineer for the road, stated that drilling at Kak- wa and reserve' has encountered gas and oil, but no water. Reports of an oil strike in Northeast Saskatchewan originated when rail- way laborers encountered oil and gas at Kakwa while drilling for water on the ,site of the new station house at that point, ' Drills were sent down 215 feet before the quest for water was abandoned. At Reserve, ' nearby on the new line, water -drilling was aban- doned at 115 feet. Workers have now been transferred to Clemeueeau, 14 Hiles south of Hud- son Bay Junction, in the effort to ob- tain a water supply. The railway con- struction work is centred along the so-called Sturgis cut-off, which short- ens the route from Southern Sas- katchewan to the Hudson Bay Rail- way and to Churchill on the bay, But Water Elusive Sea Takes Heavy Toll of England 6,000 Acres Washed Away - 1 2 way-12 Towns and Villages Devoured "Hour after hour the sea takes its toll of England. Sometimes it is con- tent with eating slowly, but, now and again, it swallows thousands of tons in as many second.; Each gale under mines the white cliffs and sandy prom- ontories. Thus it is that a field may be here ` today and gone tomorrow," writes a chartered surveyor in the Yorkshire Evening News. "It has been estimated that in the 35 years preceding 1911 England lost 6,000 acres. During that same period the sea gave 48,000 acres—a good bar- gain perhaps from some points of view, but the unfortunate losers of land aro apt to look at the problem from their own standpoint. • "It is in the region between Flam- borough Head and Spurn oint in York- shire that the most serious erosion occurs. In a distance of 40 miles 12 towns and villages have been devoured by the sea. "The damage that erosion can do to a seaside resort is incalculable. Take away a beach, and very oftenyou take away a resort's raison d'etre. Take away the cliffs and you take away the beauty—a very tangible thing in the tourist trade - "We all know that the Government has a very crowded program, but few would deny the urgency of tackling a problem afresh that is, in truth, de- stroying England." den, is reported • Bishop of Mexico Visits Montreal Canada's Prestige Growing, Says Rt. Rev. Frank W. Creighton PROGRESS KEYNOTE "Canada's prestige in Mexico is very great at present and seems destined to continue," stated Right Rev. Frank Whittington Creighton, Bishop of Mex- ico, who was in Montreal recently on. his way to the Lambeth Conference. Dr. Creighton is an authority on Mex-. ican Indian life and lore, and his•last article was publishes. in The Forum last fall. He has just completed a lec- ture tour which has taken hint through many of the states "The Bank of Montreal is a well known institution with many branches throughout our country," he stated, "and the Canadian Bank of Commerce, which is my bank, is well known too, There are many Canadians in Mexico City, and both they and the British colony are strongly Canadian in inter- ests and sympathy." Canadian Salmon Heads Fish List The salmon is the king fish of 'Can- ada, judged by commercial standards. It is nearly three times as valuable' as any other single species of fish, and it accounts 'for nearly two-thirds of the total product of the fisheries of the Dominion. In 1928, the total value of the production of the fisheries was $55,050,973-, of which salmon account- ed for $17,567,053. The next• largest contribution made by a single variety of fish was that of cod, its catch being valued at $6,285,777. Lads Find Gold Mine In Thistle Hunting Regina. Sow thistle, arch -enemy of the grain growers of Saskatchewan, will prove a gold mine for lads ofthe southern farming district of Kincaid. The. rural, Council there has placed a bounty' on patches of, thistle 'which have not previously been reported: dads who discover new thistle patches will get 50 cents per patch from the Council, . It was in this district that afi agricultural expert last year found 23,000,000,000 sow thistle seeds in two cars of oats, French Aviators Hold Exhibiti.ii 200,000 Gather to See France's Greatest Airmen Paris.—The most important nation- al aviation festival ever organized in, France: took place at Vincennes. The • exhibition was arranged by the Aero Club de France and a Paris press syn- dicate, 'and was conducted under the patronage of President Douniergue, M.• Laurent-Eynac, Minister of Air, and Pierre -Etienne Flandin, Minister of Commerce, who is also president of the Aero Club. About 300 planes took part in the festival and, the crowd attending on the opening days of the exhibition was ; estimated ' at' 200,000. Among the fa- mous aviators participating were Leila Bernstein, holder of the woman's re- cord for endurance and distance in a straight line, who won the only event of the',festival open exclusively to wo- men .fliers. Other famous fliers and machines which elicited enthusiastic applause from the spectators are Capt. Dieudonne'Caste and Maurice Bellojite in their Question Mark and Jean As- solant in his Yellow Bird. A Palace and a Prison. What matter if your work be menial? Food must be found to keep your body alive, Clothes and a shelter so that you may strive For that to which you feel you have a call. Some honey will be blended with the gall; Success and failure teach you to derive ' A way to reach the end toward which you drive= The means of freedom from your prisoning wall. ° So keep your heart steadfastly on•the goal' And tend with watchful care the growing flame, Remembering that the accolade of ffanie Comes only through the travail of the soul. Thus may you gain, by trial its the fires At last those heights that are your soul's desire. Francis Livingstone Montgomery in the New York Times, "War is as ennobling to the Coin; bathing as it is demoralizing to the Miners Record Claims Victoria, 13,C.-Tlie trek of gold seekers• into the Tana and Tuiseguan River sections—newest and most northern section of British, Columbia .has resulted' In the recording of 800'. claims already this season (up to May 20th(, according to advices rbeeived by Hon, W. A. McKenzie, Minister of Mines. onioo)lcers,"—General Seely. i r