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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1931-01-15, Page 6British Mountain Climbers To Attempt "Home of Gods" Ery2clition Planned Early This Year to Scale Second. Highest Peak in Empire • Lou -4.. group, of British moue - tale ellinbers Is' plannieg a new at- tempt to reach the home of the Bud- dhist gods, Plaas are almost complete for au ex- pedition early in 1e31 to Mount Kainet, in the Ifixnalayae. second highest peak in the British Empire, and yet un- sealed. If the climbers succeed they will have reached a higher summit than any other Party. Led by Frank Smythe, a member of the exaedition which was -defeated on Kinchenjunga slopes last year, the 'Party will leave Londent for India late FebruaeY. aionnt Kamet, 25,4:11 feet high. is one of the loftie't of the western Him- alayan range, Other attempts to scale it have been Made, but the most sue- cesstul did not reach within 2,000 fe'et of tile top. Smythe will be aecompanied by Squadron Leader E. B. Beaman, It, Le,_ Holdsworth and Dr. ilaymoud Green, Oxfortt "'We shall start from Atmore at the east baso of the mountain." Smythe said, "We 8101, of course, lure to encounter the oppositicm ot superste t ion. "13addbiets believe that the moun- tain tops are the homes of the gods and that a strange race of extraordin- ary ape -like men—the eaowmen—in- habit the mountains. I hope to be able to break down these betide." Flowerpot Island Toronto to Have To Be Reinforced Huge Telescope Ottawa Acts to Protect Land From Erosion in Georgian Bay Otte.wa.—Flowerpot island Geor- Astronomical Observatory Be Erected By Mrs. . D. A. Dunlap Torouto.—An astronomical observe- Feeeeoletas workshop In California , • . ••` VI" 44' • in atO gian Bay has been turned. over to tory watch will be one of the finest in ?Vomit Wilson ObserVrY, OW Pasadena-, Caliwhere Prof . le, inside which is 100 -inch telescope , . : . • the National Parke' Branch of the the world will be erected hi Toronto Albert Einstein will carry onatlea eesearch work wh ile on his visit to California. Department of interior. It is situated in the near future, according to a re - at the earth end of Brtice Peninsula cent announcement by' Prof. C. A. l and is known as Flowerpot because of Chant, bead of the Department of As - Gold Crisis Parev rock formations that resemble tronomy, Thiiveisity of Toronto. The huge tower pots, They have been observatory will be erected by Mrs. D. have teees growiug on the top. The lap, as a memorial to the late David Pee •—The ot °old i•e-1 formed by erosion of the waves and A. Dunlap, and her SO.11, D. Moffat Dun- iroblem ••••••/./01.,•11.././M/40 Canadian Imports Touch Billion Mark. Domestic Exports 'Estimated to Total $900,000,000 for Year BASIS- OF 11 MONTHS alt i iov 1910 it la est irnaind thnt the total imports of Canada will be found -to heve reached value of just over 011,0 billion dollars. The value of do- rneeeic gooas exported- front the Do- • aninien will probably amount to algid nine Hundred dollars. Figures covering the :trade of Cana- da for 11 months of the calendar year are now available. They show that, up to the end of November the Do. uthelon imported goods 'valued at $948,141,515. During the same 11- moeth period export's from Canada reached a value of $810„086,998. 'nese totals constitute a considerable falling oft from the corresponding 11 Menthe of 1929 when imports amount to $1,- 214,627,537, and exports to $1,093,891;- 958. In order to arrive at an estimate of Canada's trade for -the calendar year it is useful to turn back to the figuree of imports and exports foe December, 1929, and make them the basis of the estimate tor the month just ended. In December of last Year the Dominion's imports of foreign goods were valued at $84,365,155. Domestic exports Were valued at $88,52e,355. Taking into fl, Aviators Have Opens in Paris Battle With b paras. branch -will reinforce the "FloW- A. Dunlap, who died six years ago and Serves, which is troubling both France !. Coyotte in Plane of being entirely eaten away by the Observatory." and England, the former becansel'. Eelle Fourche, S.D.—Details of a erpote" as their bases are in danger will be known as the "David DunlaP action of the waves. The outstanding feature of the oh- thee' are too large, the latter hecausteepattle between two aviators and a 11 isbeing di ete• e'L i woueded coyote in an airplane above hthyeytraersuro, sma , . s, ee a . y representatives of the t ei Dakota prairie were told recently The eislend coutains 475 acres end servatory will be a large eeflecting; will that sheltera and other accom- is only oue of greater aperture in the i French and British Governments, eaq1bY Clyde Ice, aviator. i a be lett in its present wild state, telescope 74 inches in diameter. Therel Modations for campers will be pro- world, that on Mount Wilson in Cali- f ere meeting in. Paris for a seriA Oe,1 'With a gunner as his companion, *idea. The lighthouse and lighthouse I fornia. The instrument is already un- ‘PrelimanarY discussions, leading to-haiee was cruising over the peairie keeper's 'home will not be distuvbed; I der construction in _England, and will later conference in London. While when the coyote was sighted and shot ' t t the portion of the Island they occupy be housed in a circular metal building.1 Frallee has been accumulating the --E% rain he plane, The aviators lama The National Park will now have 1 into a park, and the park itself willi on British gold stocks, and the prese, , As the plane attained altitudee,°tchke- win replays the property of the De -1 The building will be erected near the, world's second largest gold reserve, i ed, tossed the animal into the par:meet of Marine. 1 eity on a large acreage to be convertedl there has been a simultaneous dyable pit and took oft. ent conversations are being under.. 'icoyote suddenly revived aud attack - the use of the public. Flowerpot observatory will be under the depart- taken with a view to the best meansed the :gunner. He fought with his 28 or i9 islands in Georgian Bay for be known as David Dunlap Park. The Island was surrendered by the Chip- 1 ment of astronomy, of the university,ii whereby the two countries can -co- , moment and bare, hands and was severely bitten. pews Indians in 1956 ana bas. bee -a I while the faculty of forestry will bei probleoperate to solve their respectiveIce left his controls a problems. . joined in the battle. v held iit Ernst recently by the Depart- niin charge of developmentIt is now generally recognited that of the park.IThe plane began to fall and spin Astronoy and geoloaewere both' " the Bank of France has been for while in the cockpit both men fought by liis Excellency the. Govereor-Gen- , the beast. eral on January 15, it was announced revenue during the past month, dea- Finally Ice struck the coyote -on here recently. 'Unless Lord Willing- pite the higher tariff schedules. -How- _the he.ad with a wrench and return - don remains in Canada for the open- ever, should customs, excise and in - ed to the controls in time to prevent ing of the next session of parliament, come tax lest month approximate the. , ... 4.1... ... this fiin etian will probably be his last corresponding mouth a year ago and a crash. He also suffered severe 'The aviatote took no neireaThances. -9-4....miljapn, the total revenue There will be the rustomary axbie fropt theeeesonedee -tor: the calendar The coyote was theeern overboard -.. bition of Canadian art, the collection Year Would' be,..iii the neigliborbood oi • and they landed to Mete their wounds' ..... _ . being more nationally representative $020,000,000. For the calendar year, 1929, customs and excise net revenue amounted to $1130,247,881, while income tax yielded to the extent -of $69,285,295. This was a total of $309,53%176. coneideration the general falling off iu Canadian Paintings trade, It is estimated that both imports and exports during the present mouth Go o Argentina. will approximate siety-four millions, . This figure added to the known totals Seventy-five Pictures Taken Mainly From National Gallery Collection Ottawa.—Canadian art will be ex- hibited at the British Empire Trade exposition which is to be. held at Buenos Aires during the months of March. and April next year. Through E. D. 'McColl, Canadian Thule Com- missioner in the Argentine capital space has been ,set aside in the Can- adian section and a grove) oE 75 Can- adian paintings will be displayed. Those pictures have been taken main- ly from'. the National Gallery collec- tion. 1931 Exhibition. The 1931 exhibition of the National Art Gallery veil the opened formally for the 11 montbs gives total imports of a,pproxiinately $1,012,000,000 and total exports of approximately $883,- 000,000. Total Tax Revenues The total customs. •excise and ih come tax revenues for the 11 months of the past calendar year,- that is up to November 30 last, was $302,030,000. During the corresponding period of 1929 it wa.s. 5375,090,695. Again De- cember figures are not available, and the total tor that month MUM. neces- sarily be estimated. During December 1929, customs and excise net revenue amounted to $23,831,187, while lemma tax revenue totalled $611,293. This was a total national revenue, from these sources, ot $24,442,480. With the decrease in trade- it is expected there will be a falling -off in customs ' meat ot Indian Affairs. to which the Parks branch well pay $165 for it. Farmer Finds Diamond lap, but the former had a peculiar ; a further influx _of gold, it is said, time seeking means to e favorite studies of the late David Duni some student of the heavens. The sew P1'0-1 any which has not aome about through desire to accumulate vast stock.% attraction for him. 1 -le was a keeni v„,...tgary oh n tated, has been un- t from neXifial economic •cateees. Riefaterdeanneateee-Brazil--aA. magna I I 3.11eenetreeseeeeme aza• . pletion. In working out the plans,. stetemene to the4a. continental edition • ficent blue -White diamond, weighing t years' the Westminster Foreign Bank, in a and will now be brought to corn - 51 carats, has been found accident- , Mrs. Dunlap has had the assistance ofi {Professor Chant, one of Canada's best' only real remedy appears to be the of the Daily Mail, declares thaa the dressed. this year than peeviously. Every pro - any ley a poor field worker near the wealthy tarmers of the AraguaYa increase ef French foreign eaveet- village of Batiste State at lee as, o I known astronomers. Mild it tor less than $10,000 to some ----: — River diamond district. The unique . . ' There is doubt that, should meuts, which he considers intheinent. atone was later resold to .a Rio dia- mond merchant, its price not being disoloeed. It had to be •cut• in two sizes. 'the largest weighing 20 carats eiegrapn vv ires Fran Sing Weather Note' co - better British conversations result a distribution ot gold, an. im-' Portant step would have been taken and the. smaller 10. iu the packing houses„ science final-. ! toward amelioration of 0001)011110 (alt This ie not the first large diamond ' ly has found a use even for the singing attains in Europe generally. • - : Like the proverbial squeal of the pig tolled in Brazil. Since the -first dia- Solitude By BETTY GOURRE (Torent :matchless stones. The crown stone of Sciences, in Paris, M. Albert No. 0- blessed Solitude! of Portugal, known as the Braganza, weather science and in radio, des- nown for researches in Midst jostling crowde, don, already k slopes of the flambe MOentains. State cribed a. way of using this singing of , The hostile eyes, 1 That press upon each side, was discovered in Brazil, on the the wires to forecast the weather. lel two reasonably long wires are strungl That stare, of Minas Gerites. It has the fabul- bus weight of 1680 carats. The on pole lines at right angles to eachl These strangers south, for example, whale the other . Everywhere. famous "Star of the South" which • ' • f B • li end 1 How 1 long to be Mon% Leave the busy towns behind, , other, one wire running north weighs 1251,a carats and which be, I 4 ' t sound of telegraph wires in the 1V illd. • mends were diScovered in 1725. Bra - At a recent meeting of the Academy zilian mines have yielded numerous 44. Nance of the• Dominion will have re- . • presentation, it was declared Commumcation in the • Far NorthlOntario House Will Open February 12 The Canadian .Mr Mail Service es- •ta.blished a record -tor communica.tion With Canada's 'Northland, when the through initial mail flight from Me - Murray, Alberta, to Ahlavik, NW.T., was tompletea in. eleven hours rule nieg time—a distance of 1,676 miles, The revolutionary .speed of this ac- eomplishment, as compared with tor- xaer neethoas of land and water .com- munication, may be gauged when it .• a to pointed out that the scheduled. • . time of the winter service was for- nierly about 73 days between the Points mentioned and the summer 1 to the Gaeke o tu at o litude service 15 days, ongs 51- wire runs east and west, it is noticed,1 lAnd, in so , was discovered in the Bagagem eland district, and weighed 255% Notion reports, that the singing 0e1 Tyne friendship find. tants before cuttingIt is one of ane of these wires represents at any . (me instant. a different intensity or a' the most marvelous gems ot its kind, keing valued at over $100,000 siflghllg of the other wire. 'Mang special elec- Among the most important recent teic recorders to keep track of these discoveries, the matchless pink dia- eariatioes, M. Notion found that they mond "Sbuthern Cross" standa out. e The purchasers of this stone say it corresond almost exactly with the is the largest pink diamond M the -arrival of oceanic or other storms, world. It was found July, 1a29, 111 Sound waves or air currents from the the Abaete River diamond lis, t letdams themselves cannot explain the Minas Games, and weighs 118 carats- phenomena, M. Nodon states, for the I! be in to sin while the storm! The stone Is still uncut. w es g still is scores or hundreds of miles away The true mechanism, he be - Ottawa Seismograph heves, is that electric charges in tbe Registers Earthquake the wires into vibratiairas .a result of atmosphere in :advance of a storm set • Ottawa. --an earthquake of four electro -static charges on the clouds or lmers' duration was registeeed on the els on the -Maths and prairies long seismograph at the Dominion Experi- the grouta. Anieteur weather proph- . Mental Farm Observatory here the have claimed that telegraph wires eieg .•morning of „Sa,ntiary 2nta The quake, betore 8 storm, only to be ridiculed by' • whose epieentre was estimated to he weather experts. Now M. Notion 2,530 miles distant from the Capital, brings thein the beginnings of vindieh wee described by the seismologist as tion.. severe, °e11* to the light charaeter 01: 1110 preliminary tremors, it was bn-1 0! blessed quiet! • Away from noisy cars. • That throng tbe roads. The chattering, the talk, le Of the people, as they walk, How I long to be alone, -3 :I. Leave the noley towns behind, e. And, in perfect quiethess, True peace find. Empire Reforestation possible to determine the direction Swans from bere ot the crualteee origin. j Seven swans, like galleons, e• Came sailing by today, Australia to Limit'Seven yellow beaks over seven white , ' throats, Alien Immigration I Do,,,,,, L11110 ng 1110 mitd-buillte and bones.' .• •' C an b e yr t , A us tralia.—Tb c Govern- ot old boats, meet hae deeided to restrict alien ina Thinking all the time of their quiet -.;',•,,a..,. migration until the country's posilion eastie moats • Linen as made to -day is not as good as the material turned out 7,000 years ago, according to some eepertsee Canada is yearly playing a bigger part in Empire reforestation. Fifty- three per cent. of the tree seed ex- ported from the Dominion. has goue to Creat Britain, 40 per cent. to New Zea- land, and the remainder to Australia, Ireland and other parts of. the Empire. During the past 10 years the British Forestry Commission has planted 140,- 000 acres ot softwoods, the greater Part of theseed having been sent train Can a da. Torouto.—The .Ontario Legislature will open on Thursday, Feb. 12, Pre- mier George S. Henry announced re- eently, It is expected the hous will alt for six weeks and be .adjourned be- fore. Easter. The date set for theopening is that immediately following the polling day for the by-elections in Hamilton West and Grenville, the former made va, ca_nt by the death of Hon. Fred T. Smye, minister without portfolio, and the latter by the resignation of Hon. G. Howard Ferguson, on his. appoint- ment to the Canadian High Commis- sionerehip in London. , Canada's 1930 Field Crops Ottawa.—.The total 'value of Can- ada's principal field crops in 1930 is -estimated at -5629,146,000, compared with 5948,9S1,400 in 1929, and $1,125,- 003,000 in 1028, According to au esti- mate in the crop report of the Do- minion Bureau of Statistics. Value of the wheat crop last year is placed at $173,589,000, compared With $319,715, 000 in 1929. World's Fastest Flying Boat • improve:1 sultitdently to Will' 1011 Ibo \\ 11010 the cool 14 1)1'00(1 -leafed 'lifting of the ban, The Commonwealth wallies to co - °Delete with all conntries concerned tied litte riotifietl 11,,. shipping coin - water lily floats. Seven swans, like galleons, Came sailing by today, Cream curving necklike the prows 'mutes that it is undesirable to give' of stately ships, favilitioe to immigraute for travel to Austvalia. • Apart train Withal Immigrants, only those already possessing permits is - 111 among the (lead wharves and gan- grene -rotten ab iii*. Thinking all the time of where the plazid willow eips, sited en behalf of the Government will And the rainbow -flashing, lightnieg- he permitted to enter the conetryj dashing kingflsbee dies, , Tearl aed`businese Men wilt not be 1 eelolet Deemond Sheri'dan, hi Ferery•- 45:ected, England's new air stein el:aimed to be 'the largest and boat, The Sydney. weighs about 10 tone. ';:k+ .teeealalLe West all -metal military meitoplatie flying King George Answers Lord Mayor's Message Saudringham, England.—The King, in -answering Nee- Year's greetings al the Lord Mayor, addressed the follow. ing message to citizens of London: "Pray assure Londoners that I re ciprocate their warm greetings. I ate touched by their kindly allusions in their Message to niy complete eeatora- tion to health,. for which I am thank- ful to God. "While .I am hopeful for scat:4'1:1a tory results from the recent import- ant conferences, the most sanguine minds cannot fail to realize the diffi- culties and anxieties which confront ne at home and overseas. "All the more, IN'e, =St stand unitea with the people resolutely determined to find and follow the sere road which leads toLastin: peace mid prosperity." Santiago, Chile.—A. decree by Don Rodolfo Jaramillo, Finance Minister, on Dec. BO, fixed the 1931 budget at 1,054,636,714 pesos, approximately 5127,000,000, for expenses, and esti- mated 1,039,617,387 as receipts. The apparent deficit is more than -over- come by the order for a 15 per coot. reduction in salaries for all unmaeried public employees. Unmarried Workers' Wages Cut in Chile Canada Leads World With Hydro Electrks Ottawa.—With 14,000,000,900 invest' ed in electric statiO11- -Canada emerged from 1930 one of the world' e leaders 111 water power development. The Department of the Interior esti- ! , mates a maximum of 48,000,000 horse- power could be generated beim Cana- dian 'layers and turbines totaling 6.- 000,000 horsepower have already been installed, most of them in the past de- cade. Four Travel Cheaply Air -minded parties of foul' will soote be able to make trips front Manche ter, England, in a Specially fitted Alla{ plane at a lower rate theft froma other airport in Great Britain. Tlt rale will be 8d. a mile for parties four, and the new plane wiliob ern Air Lines are putting'orivi will htty144 Nort11.1i luxurious seating arrangements and a. special heating and ventilating ors.' tem.