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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1937-07-08, Page 2• h Press• To Aid Flying OTTAWA.—A radio and meteoro- logical reporting station will be con- s`trueted at Port Harrison on the east coast of Hudson Bay, kion: 0, D. "Iowa, Minister of Transport,, an- nounced this week, "The inception of the trans-etlau•. tie and trans -Canadian serviees has Blade it necessary that reliable weather reports covering conditions 4.ver wide areas should be available t all times," the Minister said. 4Meteorologists are of the .opinion that a station at this point will help greatly in making these reports more complete. Port Harrison is roughly half way between Churchill, Man., and the Labrador coast, and will pro- tide . a quick means of communica- tion with the outside world for this Part of Canada, "This station will be of value as an aid to navigation in Hudson Bay, Mand' of service to the Department. of ines and Resources; also to the ktunted Police in connection with the administration of their services. It win be equipped with long and short wave transmitters of the latest tiesil it, providing for transmission froth by radiophone and international Morse code. Use of Air Mail Strongly Urged OTTAWA. — The Department of Trade and Commerce strongly ad- vises. Caeadian exporters in the case •- 'erf urgent .correspondence, particu- larly with outlying parts of the world, to take advantage of the air Mail facilities which are now avail- able from Canada. As illustrating the saving of time that can be af- fected by this means in comparison with non -air routing a table has been lrrepared showing that from Toronto or. Montreal to Bombay, India, there as a saving of eight days by air mail. `from Toronto or Montreal to Cape- town, South Africa, an air mail let- ter will go in 17 days, compared with 25 days by steamer. To Crystobal, Panama, there is a saving of six days by air mail; to Rio 'de Janeiro, a saving of eight days, and to Bue- nos Aires, a saving of twelve days. Agrortologists to Meet at Aberyst- wyth, Wales TORONTO.—Delegates from Can- ada and the United States will meet other eminent agrostologists from all the principal countries of the world at the fo'lrth International Grass land Congress, which will be held at Aberystwyth, Wales, in July, 1937. The congress will consider different aspects of the grassland problem, in- cluding ecology, pasture and range management, seed mixtures, plant_ treedinge genetics' and' seerprodu:c= tion,manuresand fertilizers, nutri- tive value of pastures, fodder con- servation and grassland economics. Forenloz s on $20O,OOO Doukho- bor Mortgage VANCOUVER.—Mr. Justice. D. A. McDonald in Supreme Court Cham- bers has appointed D. D. Munro, Van- couver Manager of the Sun Life As- surance Company of Canada, receiv- er for a large portion of the hold- ings of the Christian Community of Universal Brotherhood, Ltd., in Brit- ish Columbia. About 15,000 acres of the Douk- hobor property in the vicinity of Brilliant and Grand Forks, in South- eastern British Columbia, is mort- gaged to the Sun Life to sscure X200,000. A foreclosure action has k een in- ietituted against the Doukhobor or- ganization by the mortgagee to re- cover its principal together with ;$10,000 interest and $30,000 in taxes. The receiver was named at the request of the Sun Life. The defendant has not yet appear- ed to contest the force%sure suit. Poultry Protection HAMILTON.—James Waldron, of Hamilton, was acquitted of cruelty to animals, Magistrate H. A. Bur- bidge holding that accused was jus- tified in protecting his poultry against the attack of a wire-haired terrier which Waldron admitted kill- ing with a rake handle. Waldron said he struck two blows to ward off the animal, and one broke its neck. Controller Donald McFarlane was special prosecutor for the Society for Prevention of Cruel- ty to Animals. Waldron produced an injured rooster to show the result of . the dog's visit, and said another bird was so seriously injured he had to destroy it, French-Canadian's Cow Wins Breeders' Awards OTTAWA. — Joseph P. Beauche- inin, Vercheres, Que., is the first French-Canadian owner of an Aye - shire cow that has won the double award of a Canadian Ayrshire Breed- ers' Association meritorious produe- tion gold seal certificate and mem- bership in the American Ayrshire Breeders' Assoc..ation hundred -thous- and -pound club. A 14 -year-old cow, St. Blain Prin.- taniere, owned by Beauehemin, l9 D—N the 19th Canadian Ayrshire to win, the awards. The pow produced 100,- 198 pounds of milk, 4,515 pounds of butterfat, 4.46 per cent., in 2,580 n',ilking clays. Says Cancer Still Balks Medical Research OTTAWA.—A noted Freneh rad- iologist told the Canadian and On- tario Medical Associations science can trace step by step the organic changes that result in cancer, but continues to be balked by the mys- terious transformation that turns a benign growth, into a malignant, one. The, associations; heard '" Dr. An- toine Lfacessagne, radiologist at the Curie Institute iri Paris, describe ex- periments on mice, in whieh it was possible -to' promote growth" of tum- ors which eventually • become can- cers through injection of oestrone, the female sex hormone. 8. C. Reduces Relief By 27 Per Cent. VICTORIA—The British Colum, bia relief department announced last week relief rolls in May of this year were 27 per cent. less' than in the , same month of 1936 , lgonthly sta= tistics issued .by the; department showed 65,223 persons dependent on unemployment relief during May, 1936, compared with 88,090 in May a year ago. In April this year 73,- 825 persons were receiving assist- ance. . Moscow Flight Planned By Jimmy Mattern WASHINGTON. Jimmy Mattern, the flier, is -seeking White House aid to carry out his projected, refueling flight frons Oakland, Calif.,•to Mos- cow in August. Mattern and Senator Sheppard (D., Tex.) conferred with Secretary Marvin H. McIntyre. Sheppard said the Commerce Department's Avia- tion Bureau discourages all "pion- eer flights" of that character astoo hazardous. McIntyre informed them where to go for further conference, presum- ably the Commerce Department. Cow Has Quadruplets BETHUNE, Sask. — George Seig- meth's purebred shorthorn cow has done tis best to help him through a bad year on his southern Saskatche- wan farm. • She gave birth to quad- ruplets last week. Two or the calves survived and are doing well. King Formally Opens New Sculpture Hall • LONDON.—The:Ding formally op- ....euealeibeenaw—Du eell,Realp1 ro:- at the Tate Ai t .'Gallery this week. "These sculpture talleries are the finest in the world," the King said in a brief dedication speech. The new galleries are a gift to the nation from Lorne Duveen, and cost $493,- 000. Flomework For Teachers TORONTO. — More than 6,000 teachers in Ontario will give up a month of their summer vacation to take refresher courses or to improve their professional and academic sta- tus. The number this year is nearly twice as many as in 1935, and many THE MA' Vya ETS POULTRY & EGGS Buying prices: Toronto dealers are quoting pro- ducers for ungraded eggs, delivered, cases returned: Eggs— Grade A large 22 to 00 Grade A medium .... 20 to 00 Grade B 18 to 00 Grade C 16 to 00 Dealers are quoted on graded eggs cases free Grade A large 24 to 00 Grade A medium 22 to 28 Grade B 19 to 20 Grade C 18 to 19 POULTRY Prices paid to country shippers: Dressed, Milk Sel. A. Sel. B. Fed A. Spring Broilers - 1 to 134 lbs..... 16 14 18 1% to 3 lbs..... ' 18 16 20 3 to 4 lbs. 19 17 21 4lbs, and over . 20 18 22 Dressed. Sol. A. Sel, B. Fatted Hens— Over 5 lbs. 15 4 to 5 lbs. 14 8i/a to 4 lbs: 12 3 to 3% lbs: , .:.:- 11 Old Roosters— Over 5 lbs. , 12 10 (Red and black feath- ered'birds 2c per ib. less than above prices.) Ether Fowl— Guinea Fowl,.per rale 75 op Note: C grade poultry 3c below B grade. 13 12 11 1 U. S. Destroyers and Aircraft Ca!'itier Italie to Scene Exact Lo- cation Hard to Determnu e, But Cutter Switches Course— Down, Since Friday HONOLULU Six United States ifiions ;both picked up warships raced over the Pacific Sun- day night in the greatest sea hunt ever mobilized as faint radio signals, crackling out of thedesolate ocean stretches along the Equator, gave al- most certain proof that Amelia Ear - hart and her flying companion,' Capt. Fred Noonan, were alive, either '. /adrift or on a reef south of Howland Island. The signals, first contadt made with the $80,000 "Flying Laboratory" since it was forced down Fr[lay on a flight from Lae, New 'Guinea, were received by three powerful radio stations here in response to a broad- cast by Station KGMB at Honolulu. Pan American Airways' direction finder picked up the calls at Mokapu Point, and estimated the origin was south of tiny Howland Island. The station said it could not place the location exactly, due to the weakness of the signals. MESSAGES` REPORTED. Meanwhile from other points came reports, all apparently coinciding, of messages • received by voice radio from the missing plane. Naval Operations Headquarters at Washington, D. C., ordered the air- craft carrier Lexington, with between 80 and 90 planes aboard, to proceed from San Diego, Cal., under forced draught directly to the Howland Is- land area to aid in the search: , Four destroyers =the Cushing, Perkins, Lampson and Drayton-- raced rayton—raced over the Pacific with the Lex- higton to join the battleship Color- ado, already plowing towards How- land from Honolulu. The Coast Guard cutter Itasca, cruising northwest of Howland in search of the plane, changed its course after receiving reports of the signals picked up by Pan American, and headed across the Equator to- ward a point about . 200 miles below Howland. . A huge naval patrol plane was ready to take off from . Pearl Harbor if weather reports indicated it could make the 1,900 -mile flight to How- land. A navy plane was forced to turn back Sunday. The signals picked up by Pan erica's direction finder were de er'bt ed as "carrier wave" signals;., on Mtiss Earhart's sending band. the Creast Guard and Wailupe naval radio sta- T quite strongly, they ' Vailupe station said voice, Station KGMB broadcast about 7 P.S.T. (11 aan., E.D.T.), to the last plane: "If you bear this signal. answer by dashes." At 7,15 a.m. the Makapu station 4'eported it got a response, but it was so weak the Pan American direction finders were not able to locate its exact position. However, the station estimated it was "southeast of Howland,' which for the first time, placed the plane in a location south of the island instead of northwest. similar signals reported. The it got a man's A Brisk Trade In Farm Implements eflects an Improvement in Farm Conditions BRIGDEN. — With crop prospects the best in seeral years throughout the district, farmers are seizing the oiiportunity to repair : worn imple- ments and in many cases to replace them with new machinery and as a re- sult local implement dealers report report one of the` busiest seasons 'Clic:have experienced in many years. 7, li `tuation seems to indicate that net ,1 are crops prospects good but tlrrg� u n mon- ey,' at farmers have sufficient mn -e'y' to make the changes and are will- ing to spend it because of the likeli- hood of good returns from this sea- son'S .operations. With the haying season well under way the majority of the sales so far bye been of machinery for this op- e'i ration and have included everything from new mowing equipment to rope for the loading machinery. New trac- %'tors have also been included in the sales and although it will be late next month before the harvest will be be - ,gun, already several farmers Rave considered the purchase of new bin- 1ders and other equipment for that op- eratien. One .local dealer has four 'new binders on hand and ready for delivery within a short time. About as bright as the clerk who, asked "What have you in the shape of cucumbers?" answered, "We •have some verynice bananas!" Owen ''Sound Sun -Times. foo f u'Howland �.� . Isiah :dm eeeeeeeeefee mos , when Amelia osed plans for Several her round-the-wornthld agoflight, a reporter askedEarhart her hoWdiscbig Howland Island would look on the map compared with the other places she would visit, end she smilingly held up her hand as eho n. New missing, she apparently missed the tiny island iir 1 r flight from Upw Guinea. Below, (acerge Palmer Put a , er husband, and MS, Frederick J'. Noonan,whose husband is navigator for the noted aviatrix, showatOieg teletype machines in Oakland, Cal:, as ehey, anxiously awaited word of the. two Were. Commentary on the HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEKS NEWS --- By Peter Randal Karl Radek, noted Soviet political commentator sentenced, to ten years at hard labor for alleged Trotskyist activities, last January, was released last week and is living in a small village near Moscow. Radek is said to have been granted his freedom by the Political Bureau of the Com- munist Party for exposure of mili- tary espionage activities, Since that sensational trial, eight generals have heard the famous "seventy -three-hour sentence" passed upon them by their comrades of the highest military command and— there was no appeal. Many political commentators have tried to weight the significance of these trials. Do they mean the growth of an organized opposition to the personal leadership of Stalin? Do they represent the activities of a foreign power? Are they actually connected with that famous and most unwanted man in the world, Trot- sky? No one seems to know the answer but there is a great deal of guessing being done. Walter Duranty, for many years special correspondent for the New York Times in Russia, thinks the re- cent trials may be one indication of an increasing desire on the part of the Russian masses for a bourgois democracy. Quite conceivably Trot- sky may have had something to do. with the turn of events. It is well known that he is eating his heart out in exile. But whether or not he was the mainspring, Trotsky forms the focal point for all forms of op- position to the existing regime. Many regard the wholesale trials on all charges as a govermnent exhibition which serves the double purpose of ridding it of uncomfortable oppon- ents while impressing the masses with its power. Radek's part may well have been that of a great'actor playing, as he thought, for the good of his country. A Torpedo Started It Diplomats have long ears when it suits their purpose. Last week, the officer of the German cruiser Leip- zig thought they heard the passage of a torpedo near the ship. The 'German Government promptly as- sumed that the ship had been attack- ed by Loyalist forces, withdrew from the Non -Intervention patrol, though still remaining a member of the com- mittee and announced that nothing •sluG.‘ea geeeldvic e e ...:would•be. satisfactory. Noall this action seems rather drasti"etb' be occasioned by some body passing swiftly through the water in the neighborhood of a warship. Chancellor Hitler made it clear why Germany was taking such action. It was at a gathering of 80,000 Bavarian Nazis. The real. reason was not the Leipzig incident, but German cupidity for the iron ores of Bilbao. The mines in this region are little damaged and Franco is said to be putting them into oper- ation again as swiftly as possible. That Franco may now hold a trump card in his hands is indicated by Britain's need of the same Bilbao ore as the essential raw material for most of her tremendous rearmament project. 18 Years After And as Europe struggled vainly on the verge of a second world war and as a British Prime Minister ad- dressed an appeal to the dictators of Europe for "cool heads and calm judgment," there were those who re- called the signing of a treaty whose eighteenth anniversary was celebrat- ed last week. There 'isn't much left of that famous treaty signed at Ver- sailles. Germany has regained her national independence in every res- pect. There I only remains a matter of 1,803,879 miles of territory in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Pacific Islands • and about 17,000000 people who should be Germans but for the signing of the troublesome treaty. Both of these Chancellor Hitler swears he will regain. Just how long it will be before he has sufficient strength to make his bluff a reality, 1 no one rightly knows. Anglo-American Friendship And while the dogs of Europe strain to reach imaginary, throats across international boundaries, the great English speaking countries of the world tried to reach some form of common economic ground. The Anglo-American Treaty seen as a possible outgrowth of the Imperial Conference is said to be progressing to a point where definite action may be expected befoee the end of the year. Canada, while affected through possible concessions on lumber and fruits is hoping for a new deal on American -Canadian ,reciprocity. New Zealand and Australia think of the political angle with oyes aslant at Japan and the neeess:ty of a good friend in time of need. South Africa is favorable to a nation which is her best gold customer, And so the bar- gaining goes on between nations even as between you and me. Mystic Power The United States is said to be the' richest nation in the world today, It is the only country which could de- velop swiftly by encouraging the digging of precious metals from the ground in the days of the last cen-; tury only to reserve the policy by putting the metal back into the ground in the recovery days of 1937,1 When brokers talk of gold stabiliza-' ation and sterilization, they refer to that quaint habit of the national miser—filling a hole in the ground at Fort Knox with gold bars. Back in '49 the digging of gold set the world on its feet; will the opposite policy •' succeed today? Roosevelt and his • Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, are hoping so. Only a rich nation could afford a national debt such as that possessed by the United _States. Present figures stand at $36,000,000,000, a trifling matter of $1,300,000,000 above the Presidential estimate in January.- Employment anuary.Employment Index And here is a big Canadian figure that is going to, please a lot of people. Canadian employment figures for June are higher than ,,they have been at any time since 1930; 10,178 employers report payrolls°aggregat ing 1,087,735 or an increase of 7.5 per cent over the same period last year. The stock market may be flat, there may be international jitters, but there are a good many more pay cheques going home on Saturday •night and that means something to the man ,on the street. Ihporta t Advice For Newly-weds BOSTON. — What is the most im- portant rule for newly-weds to ob- serve if they hope to live happily ever after? Ten New England couples who have been happily married for 50 to 70 years — a total of 575 years —answered that question, although although they contended the secret • could not be taught, the consensus. of opinion was this: "Learn to co-oper- ateon a,50-50 basis." But that was only commandment No. 1. The rest of the decalogue was as follows: 2.—Be honest. ;3.—Be tolerant.. 4.—Be dbiiii anionabre.' 5.—Work hard. 6.—Strive for mutual understand- ing. 7. -Try to please each other. 8.—Keep your own individuality. 9—Be loyal. 10.—Be thoughtful. Contributing to the symposium_ were: Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Cummings, Orange, Mass., married 70 years. Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Poole, Williams- burg, Vt., 69 years. Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Lockwood, , Springfield, Vt., 64 years. Mr. and Mrs. James Quirk, Fall River, Mass., 60 years. ' Mr. atm Mrs. Isaac Hall, North Rayn- ham. Edgar M. Cate, Rochester, N.H., 54 years. Mr. and Mrs Frank Safford, Colchester Vt., 51 years. Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Watson Revere, Mass., 50 years. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. E. Lawrence, Sprinfield, Mass., 50 years. Mr. and Mrs. Woldrey McKenzie, Me- thuen, Mass., 50 years. The couples were unanimously op- posed to marriage involving child brides. The best ago to wed, they felt, was 22 for the man and 20 for the woman. How many children should a couple have? One couple replied "two -a boy and girl," while another reply was "10—We have 14," and still another, "all that God sends them." Which should be boss, husband or wife? Eight couples agreed that there should be no boss. Tho other two thought. that the husband should run things. Can the secret of martial bliss bo taught successfully 'in colleges? Nine couples thought not, and one replied "perhaps." "In our grinds," wrote Mr. and Mrs. Hall, who have been married since 1580, "it is not necessary, to take col- lege courses on "how to be happy in marriage." Love exists — it somehow can't be taught." He Builds Sub1ry ay3 One of Now York's most pictur- esque millionaires is the porcine -sub- way builder, Sam Rosoif, whose Bead - line escapades have run the gamut from flash spending to suspicion in a murder mystery.. He is the rollick- ing, brawny and booming personifi- cation of American Opportunity: An immigrant boy from Russia who has cont'nued to be the proverbial dia- mond in the rough, he lives at a smart ave'tue inn, rides in sartorial grandeur in the park, gives T,uciillan dinners and is the most extravarrant tipper the nigh clubs have ever had: ---0. O. Macintyre.