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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1921-01-20, Page 7If , GSNAVY AERONAUTS HAVE THRILLIIG--- ADVENTURE IN FROZEN NORTH Carried From New York State Into James Bay Region by Adverse, Air Currents, They Made Their Way Frorxn Moose Factory to Mattice. • A. despatch from Cochrane says: - The concerted efforts to locate Kloor, Minton and Farrell, navy balloonists, which began on Thursday night. ,last 'pay the Canadiann. Government, t fur - trading companies and press corres- pondents, were mystified as to the probable point of egress for the amen who were nnushing from Moose Factory. Scouts, runners, .guides and the po- lice during the day and night started out over various trails, through snow and bleak brush. • Sergeant A. J. Joy, in •eominand of Haileybury post of the Royal Can- adian Mounted Police, 140 miles south of Cochrane, detrailedettwo intrepid afters for the sub -arctic hunt. • One of the policemen left here late Thursday night for Chute, Rcvillion rreeres' snail train terminus, fourteen miles north. The other started at Mattice, one hundred and ten miles to the westward, over the trail used :largely by the Hudson Bay Company. Correspondents for newspapers and motion picture operators procured the service of guides and runners. They combed the trail from Clute and from Mattice on Thursday night to locate ,the navy men, who were believed to •be eleven days on their clash from the (heart of the trapping zone toward the main line of the Canadian National Railways transcontinental belt. M. R. Clark, a veteran guide for sports- men, with two assistants, Thursday afternoon snowshoe(' out' of Hcarst, n few miles west of Mattice, and veered into the Mattice trail. After working up that route for several miles they separated in fan-like fashion. They had three sleds. • On the Chute trail two runners, Bradis'h and Firby, set out Thursday afternoon on the Revillion route Mattice, Jan. 8. -According to lat- est information secured., the United States naval balloonists may, still be some little distance from the railway. This information was secured frons two Indians who are trapping down the Missinabie River and who ,eame ant to Mattice with e small bundle of furs dor supplies. • These Indians stated that a fellow- trapper farther down the river had learned from Moose Factory Indians that the officers •comprising the crew of the 15598 had remained to salvage what they could of the galloon, and had not left the post for the railway on as early a date as •expected. They also stated that the officers were travelling with attention d•ir.•ect- ed more to enjoying a moderate degree of comfort rather than taking a chance on tiring or exhausting themselves in an effort to establish €i speed record. Lieut. Walter Hinton,- one of the three United Slates naval balloonists, was writing a book when George Mac- leod, the Indian" runner who brought the news of the officers' safety, left Moose Factory December 23. The book, so Macleod said, describes the flight and landing of the officers, and Lieut. Hinton was using up all the paper at Moose Factory, although that was not much. • U.S. PAYS 10 CENTS BUSHEL PREMIUM To Obtain Supply of Canadian -Wheat to Mix With Their Inferior Grain. Fort William, Ont., Jan. 9.-A very large proportion of wheat from Wes- tern Canada, particularly Alberta, is now being diverted -at Saskatoon, Moose Jaw and Winnipeg ,and is be- , ing snapped up by United States buy- ers for mills at Chicago and Minnea- polis where the demand is so strong that they are paying a premium of ten cents a bushel for Canadian, wheat to rnix with inferior grain of the United States. Forty per cent. of the wheat grown en the southern side of the line last year is grading No. 4 and lower, so that there is an absolute necessity for the American mills to secure our No. 1 Northern, and the Western Can- adian crop of 1920 grades about 87 per cent, No. 3 Northern and better. Meanwhile this condition has creat ed a shortage of wheat in milling centres of Eastern Canaua, with the result that • spot wheat to -day is rul- ing about 15 cents above May quota- tions, which is an entire reversal of the normal conditions, under which the difference should be seven cents :the other Way. Strong Eastern demand which has resulted from this state of the market is .hown in the abnormally high all - rail shipments of wheat to Eastern Canada, only a small proportion of the all -rail grain being for export, and of ,this the larger part is going through !Canadian channels. Most Deadly War Terror Yet Discovered' ^ A despatch from Philadelphia says: --Members of the Franklin In- stitute here heard Dr. L. I, Shaw, As- sistant Chief Chemist, Bureau of Mines of-VF'aehiangton, describe a new wear terror to -day. It TS diphenyl- • Slated for the East Lord Reading, former British Am- bassador to the United States, who has accepted the vice -royalty of India. chlorasine, said to be the most deadly weapon ever devised by scientists. It is the discovery of British scien- tists after three years of research work; and is described as more deadly than any poison gas used in the world war. It penetrates any gas mask now used. It is a vapor rather than a gas, and -will be the "modern projectile of the next war," the setentlets were told, the greatest single instrument of an - Canadian Lynx Caught Far From Home Middletown, N.Y., aJn. 9.-A Can- adian lynx weighing thirty.six lbs, and measuring more than four feet in length has been captured by Herman Christian, a hunter and fisherman of Roscoe, Sullivan County. The animal was captured by Christian in a trap and is a rare cateh, as it is seldom that the lynx reaches a point so :far South as this. SOME TWENTY CANDIDATESHAVE SUBMITTED NAMES OR PARLIAMENT Two Irish Parliaments Will be Working Within Sx Months, Says Sir Hamar Greenwood, Secretary for Ireland . A despatch from London says:--- olio-wing a consultation on Friday ,3th Viscount French, Lord Lieuten- jant of Ireland, who arrived from Dub. • iii on Thursday, Sir Hamar Green - hod, Secretary for Ireland, said: "The situation in South Ireland, is P improved that the Viceroy le be ll:m:ing a fortnight's vacation. • The ish •Parliasrients will be working thin six months. About Twenty =- dates, including six hi the past few %ays, have submitted their names for tine South Breland Parliament, and •1'1 bo given T,roteetien while •elec- , gr ioneerIn if necessary, • "I understand that an `All Irish' Veru, 1111s beer. torr ,c l in the mutts, consisting of constitutional National- ists Ad moderate Sinn Feiners who do not believe in the use of guns, "From reports of the present con- ditions in the south the •Government does not believe that the Republicans will be able to effectively boycott the Homo Rule Act. "There has been no communication, direct or indirect between any mem- ber of the Government and De Valera, but we believe that the Dail is gather- ing for the avowed purpose of cross- ing the bridge toward, peace. The only peace man I have received has been Archbishop Clune, who merely expressed the earnest desire for a cessation of hostilities." • THE WORK OF THE BLIND The Montreal Association for the Blind are holding numerous local demonstrations to awaken public interest In the good work that is going on. Among the most interesting of their activities are broom -making and chair - caning by blind men from the industral Home, reading of Braille, type- writing from the dictaphone, knitting socks and stockings by machine by the pupils of the school. Photo shows a party of students at their work. LEAGUE PROGRESSING WITHOUT U.S. AID Hon. Mr. Rowell States Suc- cess Attended Assembly's Deliberations. Toronto, Jan. 10. -Nan -participation by the United States in the League of Nations had no effect upon the forma- tion and functioning of the League, hi the opinion of Hon. N. W. Rowell, one of the three Canadian delegates to the League, who returned to Toronto from Geneva yesterday afternoon. "There was apprehension in spine quarters over the refusal df the Unit- ed States to participate, but the first meeting of the Assembly changed all that. Correspondents from the United States were astonished at the success of the League conference," said Hon. Mr. Rowell. Speaking of conditions• in Europe generally, Hon. Mr. Rowell deprecat- ed giving alarming views, but stated that he was glad to be back in Can- ada, where financial, social and in- dustrial life was in such a markedly better state than in any country he had visited while abroad. He said the League, having such a wealth of infor- mation, was able to meet and solve many questions which the European nations alone could scarcely have hoped to solve. FIFTEEN BILLIONS CONTROLLED BY 200 Pyramiding of U.S. Wealth Becoming Menace to Industry. New York, Jan. 9. -Fifty families in the United States control over $100,000,000 each; one hundred fam- ilies control over $50,000,000 each, and five hundred families. control over $10,000,000 each. John D. Rockefeller's estate is now• up to $0,000,000,000. -Five billion dollars of wealth in the United States has been handed down to heirs in the past fifteen years. Two hundred persons in the United States control $15,000,000,000; in France the same amount is controlled by four hundred and eighty times that number of people, or 96,000. Indus- trially, the United States is becoming dynastic -there is a veritable dynasty in each important industrial structure, some of which are: Sixty per cent. of the tobacco trust wealth is in the hands of ten families. Twelve families, with the Rocke- fellerfanmily away in the lead, control fifty per cent. of the oil country. The railroads of the country are controlled by one and three -tenths of • the stockholders. One and five -tenths of the stock- holders in the steel trust possess fifty- one per cent. of the stock. Plotted to Destroy Jewel House in London Tower A despatch from London says: - The Sinn Fein plotted to blow up the jewel house in the Tower of London, according to the Daily Sketch, which says the plot was discovered when the authorities read a number of docu- ments seized by the police in a raid in Ireland. The documents, it is added, con- tained written instructions "to take as little life as possible," The use of time bombs was sug- gested. Spatial precautions, the Daily Sketch adds, have been enforced at the Tower to guard the royal regalia kept in the jewel house, Sts; Back From Death. In 'our comparatively safe and sine portion of terra firma it brings a thrill to learn of the scape of the American balloonists who started from Rock- away, N.Y., December 13, and landed in the Canadian wilderness at Moose Factory on the following day. The remoteness of the snow beleaguered spot is shown by the fact that it took the Indian runner, who brought the first tidings, two weeks to make his way to the railway line. The three fliers had food for only three days. The balloon could do nothing to con- trol its own course, except that the use of ballast to change the level might- enable it to find currents blow- ing in the ,desired'direction. The bal- loonists were at the mercy of a storm that swept them into the inhospitable hinterland of the Adirondacks, and the rumors that came from various quar- ters as to the fate of the brave mem caused then to be given up for lost in many quarters. But their colleagues in the U. S. navy continued to hold out 'hope, based on the experience and character of Lieut. Hinton and his col- leagues. The former was one of the pioneers of the transatlantic flight in the famous NC -4. It can never be said that a single measure was left untried to learn what became of the aeronauts after they disappeared so many days ago. Every possible agency of rescue, on both sides of the inter- national boundary, was pressed into crvice. • "The heart is the toughest of all our organs," says a doctor, "and stands any amount of wear and tear." U. S. FARMERS GOING Il'TQ MOVIES Nation -Wide Movement in Re- public to Help Solve the Marketing Problem. Chicago, ;Jars. 99. ---The fanners are going into the movies. This is part of a nation-wide movement to help. solve one of the greatest problems of the day -the farm marleeting problem. Announcement was made to -day that a great educational Movement, to em- brace all the United States, reaching not only city dwellers, but the rural crossroads, will be started this week. Tho Farmers' I+'ilm Corporation, with offices at 910 Michigan boulevard, has been •organized, with 'Williams E. Skin- ner, Secretary of the National Dairy Association, as Secretary. The marketing problems will be brought directly to the people by means o Mims. Part of the plan will be propaganda to help the American Bankers' Asso- ciation raise the propose& billion -dol- lar trade expansion •fund, known as the Foreign Trade Financing Corpora- tion. The movement will reek to eleinin- ate the improper and useless "ian.- between-ers." o, Lord Reading Appointed Viceroy of India A despatch from London says: - Lord, Reading, the Lord Chief Justice and former Special Ambassador to the United States, has decided to accept the -post of 'Viceroy of India. The appointment of Lord Reading as Viceroy of India was announced several days ago, and attention was then called to the fact that for' the first time in history a Chief Justice had been named as Viceroy. To Face Cour-Martial Prof. John MacNeil, one of the lead- ing Sinn Feiners, recently arrested in Dublin, who will stand his trial this month. Weekly Market Report Toronto. Manitoba wheat -No. 1 Northern, $1.92%; No. 2 Northern, $1.88%; No. 3 Northern, $1.81%; No. 4 wheat, 172si`s Manitoba oats -No. 2 CW, 53c; No. 3 CW 5Oc; extra.No. 1 feed, 60c; No. 1 feed, 47%c; No. 2 feed, 44%e. Manitoba barley -No. 3 CW, 883 c; No. 4 CW, 76%c; feed, 67%c; rejected, 67%,e. All above in stare, Fort William. Ontario wheat-F.ob. shipping points, according to freights outside: No. 2 spring, $1.80 to $1..85; No. 2 Winter, $1.85 to $1.90. American corn -Prompt shipment, No. 2 yellow, track, Toronto, $1.15. Ontario oats -No. 3" white, 50 to 53c, according to freights outside. Barley -Malting, 85 to 90e, accord- ing to freights outside. Ontario flour -Winter, in jute bag's, prompt shipment, straight run bulk, seaboard, $8.50, nominal. Peas -No. 2, $1.75 to $1.80, outside. Manitoba flour-Tracic, Toronto: First patents, $10.90; second patents, $10,40, according• to freights„$1.85 1.85 to $1.90. Buckwheat -No. 2, $1 to $1.05. Rye -No. 2, nominal; No. 3, $1.50 to $1.66. Miff feed-Caelots, delivered, To- ronto freights, bags included. Bran, per ton,$38.25 to $40.25; shorts, per ton, $4.25; white middlings, $47.25; feed flour, $2.75 to $3. Cheese -New, large, 26 to 27c; twins, 27 to 28c; triplets, 28 to 29e; old, large, 82 to 35c; do, twins; 22% and watered, $15.25; do, off cars, $15; ,15 --section ease; 5''4-2y.r-lb. tins, 26 to 27c per lb. Smoked meats -Rolls, 30 to 36e; hams, need., 38 to 41e; heavy, 84 to 39c; cooked hams, 55 to 58e; backs, boneless, 55 to 60c; breakfast bacon, 46. to • 48c; special, 50 to 52c; cottage rolls, 38 to 39e. 'Green meats ---Out of pickle, lc less than smelted. Barrelled meats-I3ean pork, $40; short cut or family back, $4$; for same back, boneless, $53 to $54; pickled rolls, $55 to $58; mess pork, $38. Dry salted meats -Long clears, in tong, 26 to 29e; in eases, 27t to 281Ac; clear bellies, 3014 to 81 6.c; fat backs, 22 to 24c. Lard -Tierces, 25 to 251/2c; tubs, 26 to 26%c; pails, 26th to 26°r,c; prints, 28 to 29e; shortening tierces, 16 to.17c per pound. Good heavy steers, $11 to $12; butcher steers, choice, $10 to $11• do, goad, $8.50 to $9.50; do, med., $7.iza0 to 8$.50; do, com., $4 to $6; butcher heif- ers, choice, $9 to $10; do, need., $6 to $8; • do, coni., $4 to $6; butcher cows, choice, $8 to $9; do, mod, $6 to $7; canners and cutters, $3.50 to $4; but- eller balls, good, $ 7 to $9; do, com., $4.60 to $5.60; do, fair, $6.50 to $7.50; feeders, best, $9 to $10.50; do, good, 800 lbs., $8.50 to $9.60; do, 800 lbs., $7.75 to $8.'25; do, conn., $5,75 to $7; milkers and springers, choice, $100 to $150; calves, choice, $15 to $17; do, med., $12 to $14; do, tom., $5 to $10; lambs, $11 to $13; sheep, choice, $5 to $0; do, heavy and bucks, $4 to $5; do yearlings, 810 to $10.50; hags, fed to 133i! c Butter ---Fresh dairy, choice, 49 to do f.o.b., $1.4.`25; do, to the farmer. WILL RAZE SINN FEIN STRONGHOLDS Mail Service in Tipperary, ;Sli- go and Donegal to be Suspended. A despatch from Dublin says: - Dublin Castle has announced its inten- tion to destroy houses in the vicinity of scenes of outrages which are de- finitely known to be occupied by mili- tant Sinn Feiners. 'Tins action is to be taken as a deterrent oto further outrages and as an example to other districts. It was also announced by the Castle that owing to the persistent interfer- ence with mail cars in Tipperary, Sligo and Donegal, the mail services in those districts will be suspended, effective Monday. According to the Castle's statement, some mail routes have been raided as many as fifteen times. Through- out the country last wek there were 35 raids on mails, an increase of 15 aver the previous week. Outrages during last week numbered 73, as compared with 43 the preceding week. The weekly summary issued by Dublin Castle shows that arrests for the week for outrages and political offenses were 208, an increase of 142 over the previous week, while 189 in- ternment orders were issued. No further information as to ,the whereabouts of Eamonn De Valera or any news concerning the peace activi- ties is at hand. The extensive raid- ing and searching of pedestrians con- tinue in every part of Dublin. BIG SHIPMENT OF BRITISH GOODS Will Make a To�ir of Canada and Other Dominions. London, Jan. 6. -Speaking at the Foreign Samples Exhibition, which has been instituted by the Department of Overseas Trade, and which com- prises one hundred thousand samples of manufactured goods collected frsm all ever the world, which are in com- petition with United Kingdom manu- facturers, the Prince of Wales remark- ed: "I am very glad to hear that the successful organization of this great project to send a touring exhibition of British manufactures to the dominions is • likely to be completed at an early date. During my recent tour through Australia I realized that we are in danger of losing our hold an certain markets in the dominions in etli eh we were formerly supreme, and from which we are gradually being ousted by foreign competition. I am quite sure, however, the danger is only tem- porary and will pass. I feel confident the exhibition will get a warns wel- come throughout the dominions. Its advent will do much to remove the impression that British merchants do not realize the importance •of trade with the Empire, and the great op- portunities of developing it within the dominions and colonies." The exhibition starts next Summer on a series of overseas visits, which will include South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and finally Canada. The products of 700 manufacturers are represented in the exhibition. SEND ALBERTA WHEAT BY PACIFIC Interesting Shipping Experi- nient via Panama, Canal. A despatch from Calgary, Alta., says: -Approximately 3,000 tons of Alberta wheat were shipped from Cal- gary to Vancouver a few days ago, en route for Liverpool and French ports, by the Panama Canal route. This is the first important shipment to- be made from this province by the Pacific and Panama Canal, although a few small shipments were made prior. to 1914. One boat load of wheat has either left Vancouver now or will da so within the next day or two, and the other will be shipped from the Government terminal elevator at the Pacific coast port shortly afterwards, The shipment of wheat to Europe is in the nature of an experiment. In view of the prevailing high ocean rates the east will bo somewhat great- er than would be in the ease of grain consigned by the old route by rail across Canada. Irish' Quebec Resident Dies at 108 `Years , 14, :i d creamery, No. 1,55 to 68e fresh $ espatch irony tQuebec says: - A 50c; x y, , remarkable case of longevity is re - Montreal, Oats, Can. West,, (Q '2. 783,1; do, ported from the parish of St. Pat - No. 8, 70e. Flour, 1ian. spring wheat ricks de Beaurivage, Latbiatterc� patents, firsts, $10,90. Rolled oats, bag County, where John C'or•rigan, a nee 00 lbs., $3.70, Bran, $40.25. Shorts, tive of County Tyrone, Ireland, pass - 58 to 61e. Margarine -85 to 37e. Eggs --No. 1,, 74 to 76c; selects, 78 to 80c; new laid, in. tartdns, 0 to 95c. Beans--t�naclian hand-picked, bus., $3.75 to $4,.0; primes, $3 to $3.50; $40.25. 7`Iay, No. 2, per ton, ear lots, Japans, 9t�ac; Limas, Madagascar, $30 to $31, 10,4c; California Lintas, 121,ic. Butcher heifers, .com., $5 to $7.50; i faple products --Syrup, per imp. butcher cows, med., $5 to $7.50;. can - gal., $8;40 to $8.50; per 5 imp, gals., Hers, $3,25 to $3.50; eater's, $4 to $5; $3.25 to $3,40. Maple sugar, lb.,. 27 butcher bulls, eotu., , b to $6.`. 0. Val to 30c. calves, $13 to $113.50. Ewes, $5 -to $6; honey -60-30-1b. tins, 25. to 20c per lambs, com.. $'i to 811, Hogs, selects, es far back as 1832. to is survived Ib.; Ontario comb honey, et :$7.50 per off errs, •$16, be seven children. ed away at they age of 108 years. In spite of his great age, Mr. Corrigan retained all his faculties up to the end and had only taken to bed a week pre- vious to his death. Ile was a tailor and worked at his trade in this city