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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1937-11-19, Page 311, ill kR< a 0 . s • • • , 4 • dee , t, rwra"1;,,e, iia' IL1 iL .;�1 IM1tir *9,, .1937 07; Seen la Ci.puuty..Papers (00aOnrlin$ freta Page 2). L avelld - rehurrhill 4 qul'et Wedding was solemnized at: gt. Pauls. Church, Stratford, on Wed- aesday, November 3rd, when Rudy Chu'rcbill, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Davedd Churchill, of Clinton, was unit- ed in =luggage to George R. Lavelle by Rev. F. G, Lightburn. — Olinton Mews -Record.. Wins Gold Medal Congratulations are extended to Miss Doris Ramilton, of London, who won the Gold Medal' for vocal solo work at the Canadian Musical Festi- val held in that city last week. Doris ranked first in a class of twelve, op- en to girls under eighteen, years of age.—Zurich Herald. HENSALL (Intended for last week) We believe. Mr. Fred Smallacombe has purchased the building at the corner of King and Wellington Ste. that 1d some past years was used as a bank building, and intends opening up a restaurant 'with some other line of business. He will !have a very good stand and no doubt as one of the early citizen's will command 'a good share of business'. At the recent and last meeting of the Wohela Class, held in the school mom of the United Church, a very pleasant evening was spent in games and' contests and an interesting pro- gram in which 'Miss Ellis gave a reading; Mies Gladys Luker a piano solo. A feature of the meeting was the presentation of a lace -cloth and runner to Mr. and Mrs. Jack Taber, who were^ members of the class. A dainty lunch was nerved. The following were visitors at the Choate of Mr. ,and Mrs. John Passmore over the week -end, namely:: Mr. and Mrs. Fred Milne and son, of Hamil- ton; Mr. and Mrs. William McLean and family, of Hamilton, and Mr. Lloyd Passmore and friend, of Delhi. Miss Beryl Passmore is moving- her beauty parlors from what has been known in the past as the batik build- ing into Petty's brick block, immedi- ately west of the post office. • Mr. Andrew Dougall and daughter, Miss Carrie, returned nn Tuesday from a week's virsit at the home of Mr. David Shirray, south of Hensall. ;Mrs. J. D. Cook, of Toronto, form- -.ode' ormOrly of Hensel], is visiting at the' (home of her brother, David Shirray. The Woman's Guild of St. Paul's Church were entertained recently at the home of Mrs. J. B. Simpson for •their annual • meeting with a good at- tendance. Officers were re-elected for the coming year: President, Mrs. Goodwin; vice, -president, Mists John- ston; treasurer, Miss Reynolds; sea retery, Mrs. J. B. Simpson. Plans were made to have a sale of dough- nuts and cream puffs, also an after - :non tea in the basement of the church us�x... !c22 Zifht ii.CANADA-1937" IMPERIAL TOBACCO'S INSPIRING PROGRAM FRIDAY 10p.m. E.S.T. STATI O N S CBCT-CFPL "Crown Brand" Corn Syrup makes happy, healthy chil- dren. No doubt about that, for doctors say it creates r Energy and helps to build strong, sturdy bodies. Chil- dren love it and never tire of its delicious flavor. '° IHE FAMOUS. ENERGY FOOD to ThisCANADASTAlgct3COM 'ANYLimited Kci, ATMs MOM. WEEKLY PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS WNW, *dn. 19d--11,30 am., The Oddiddi Siligere 13 noon, Canadian Faxen & Ilolwe Hour; 1.15 W.m., Cap- sulee of Melody; 6.3e, Guy Lombardo Oreheatna., Saturday, Nov. 201-42 'Won,' Cana- dian Farm & Heave Hour; 12.45 p:m„ CKNX Hill -Billies; 6.15, Reg Douglas, sports; 7.30, Saturday Night Barn Dance. • Sunday, Nov. 21-11 am,, Wingbam United Church; 12.30 p.m., The Mus. is Box; 1, "History Comes to Life"; 1.15, W. Hall Moore; 7, Slt. Andrew's Presbyterian Church. 'Monday, 'Nov. 22-10.30 a.m. Church of .theAir; •11.30, Hold the Press; 12.45 pm., Clinton Review; 1.15, Cap- sules of Melody. Tuesday, Nod, 23-11 a.m., Mexican Strings; 12.45 p.m., Kincardine Re- view; 5,45, Boulevard of Make Be- lieve; 6.45, Brussels Review. Wednesday, Nov. , 24-11.15 a.m., Boswell Sisters; 1.15 p.m., Capsules of Melody; 5.45, Easy Chair; 6.45, Teeswater Review. Thursday, Nov. 25 11.45 a.m., Strike Up the Band; 12.45 p.m., Han- over anover Review 6.45, Lucknow Review; 8, Gladys Makin piano. on Saturday afternoon, Nov. 13th, at 4 o'clock. The Arnold Circle met tat the (home of the president, Miss Mabel Work- man, en; Monday evening. A pleasant evening was spent. Mrs. Young gave the topic and the "Armistice Day" Paper was read out of the Glad Tid- ings by Miss Irene Hoggarth. After the meeting a dainty lunch was serv- ed by the president. Dr, and Mrs. Collyer, of London, were. in Hensall on Sunday, guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. E. Hemphill, and ado tailed on other friends. Dr. Harry Joynt, assistant superin- tendent of Cornwall Sanatorium, spent the week -end with his mother, Mrs. Alice Joy/et, and uncle, Mr. C. Joynt. Smith - Stott A quiet wedding took place at the United Church in Hensall on Monday, November 8th; et eleven o'clock, when Miss Dorothy Stott, of London, only daughter of Mrs,. D. Stott and the late dire Ivor Stott, was united in mar- riage' to Mr. Albert Edward (Pete) Smith, of London, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Smith; of Hensen. The .ceremony was performed by the Rev. Arthur Sinclair, The bride wore a street length dress of ruby chiffon velvet with matching hat and shoes. A crochet Lace collar and el- bow length gloves of white formed a becoming contrast. A bouquet of Talisman, roses •completed the cos- tume. The couple were unattended. After the ceremony a wedding dinner was served to the members of the immediate families at the home of the groom's parents in Hensall, where Mrs. D. Stott, mother of the bride, re- ceived in a dress of Hunter's green crepe with inserts of floral crepe and a corsage of roses. The mother of the groom, MTS. H. Smith, received in a dress of black triple sheer with a white corsage. The .tables were decorated with pink and white mums and centered with the wedding cake that was sent from England by the bride's grandmother, Mrs. Royston. After the reception the couple left on a honeymoon trip to Ottawa and Mon- treal, the bride travelling in a brown ensemble. On their return the couple will reside in London. Polar Mysteries Sailing home to its base ship after a successful flight over the North Pole, the dirigible "Italia," became loaded down with ice, then crashed and broke up, leaving one dead and nine living men on the ice, while the gas bag, freed of the weight of con- trol car and ehgin:e gondolas, floated away and disappeared, with six men aboard. Some time later, a great column of smoke, twenty-five miles, or more away, indicated, its probable fate, and another mystery had been added to the toll of the polar seas. Three parties had already been to the North Pole before Gen. Umberto Nobile and his companions started their last flight. Peary had arrived on foot some twenty years before; Byrd, and Floyd Bennett flew over and back in a plane; and Amundsen, Ells- worth and Nobile had crossed in the "Norge." Two 'expeditions, that of Amundsen and that of the ill-fated Captain Scott, had stood at the South Pole within a = few weeks of each other, yet at the moment the "Italia" started on its last voyage,` Comman- der Byrd was organizing an expedi- tion to explore the antarctic ice con- tinent by air. Despite the long moll of men who have disappeared into the frozen seas never; to, be seen again, the lure of the earth's poles remains as great as ever, and probably will not die until the north and south have yielded their last bit of .information. Wireless and airplanes can keep the world informed from -hour to hour .of the 'dangers' and perils of the explorers, but neither can .overoome the obstacles' of ice, fog and storms and insure prompt relief, so that pol- ar exploration, despite all the aids of science, remains virtually as danger- ous as when the greatest polar trag- edy of all time swallowed the 129 men of Sir Jobe) Franklin•'a .expedition. The "Italia," party was in touch with civ- ilization within a few days after the crash -,a soon as the radio could be repaired—but fourteen- years pastsed before searchers found a clue to the FARMERS - ATTENTION ! WE REMOVE DEAD HORSES AND CATTLE Call us for pkompt service. Our Men Will Shoot Old and Disabled Animals. TELEPHONE COLLECT, SEAFORTH 15 ONTARIO TALLOW CO. SEAFORTH ONTARIO • ,:tikIetesf 6)nd45.,zL� 1r t!: i N tln�/t.�,>tia i l i iG Conetipatlo may lower .resistance to "colds." Kelloggs AIX-BRADT aids regular habits. Serve the family two table- spoonfuls 1�F) daily each. As a cereal with milk, or in recipes. Sold by all grocers. ' fate of the Franklin expedition, and it remains as great a mystery to -day as it was sixty years or more ago. For the 129 men died, apparently Prem. starvation, while surrounded with tons of canned food and in a land ale:Paw jng in seal, walrus, polar bears and food of Similar nature. Sir ' John Franklin set out from England in May,e1845, with two ships and his 128 companions, the pick of the British navy. A third vessel, carrying supplies, accompanied them to Greenland. The food supplies• in- eluded neluded 32,000 pounds of tinned meat, 17,416 pints of soup, 2,176 `pints of gravy, and vast supplies of .navy salt rations. On July 26, 1845, a whaler met them: in Lancaster sound — and they were never seen again by white men. Years later, after nearly a score of searching parties had patrolled the northern ooast of Canada and the Arctic lands stretching toward the pole, a party of Hudson's Bay com- pany men, coming overland from the north, met Es'ltimos who had seen a large party of white men six years before. They were dragging heavy sledges overland toward the south. .Following up the clue, thirty-five skel- etons were found and the Eskimos produced) silver spoons and other articles obtained from the sleds. As- suming these thirty-five had starved in a land abounding in game, what had became of the other ninety-four? Fourteen years after the expedition had 'disappeared, Lady Franklin's fin- al expedition in search of her hus- band came across a cairn at Point Victory, and in it was, a message from one of the officers, dated May 18, 1847, telling of the death of Frank- lin and twenty-four others. The 105 remaining (including the thirty-five whose bodies had already been Lound) were that day abandoning their ice - locked ships to start overland to a trading post. The rescuers followed the trail and eventually came on a ship's boat mounted on runners. In it lay ewe bodies but no ' food. Nine years before, a great pile of canned neat had . been found, where it ap- parently had been cast aside. It was generally accepted that it had spoil- ed and therefore had been abandpn- ed, but an the far north temaperatures are seldom high enough to permit bacterial growth which might have ruined the meat. Inn 1926, one of these cans was opened in England, and its eighty-one-year-old content was fed to two rats, with no ill effects. Some years ago Knud Rasmussen, Daaj�sh explorer, born in Greenland and peaking the Eskimo dialects like a native, gathered the -final facts..Na- tives told him that their fathers had found a great ship caught in the ice, had gone below and found men lying dead in their bunks, apparently Frank- lin and the twenty-four mho died with him. The natives, knowing little a- bout •ships, cut a bole in.the side to admit more light, but the thole wad below ` the water line and the ship filled and sank. No record !has ever been found to explain whether some of the food was bad, why the canned meats' were abandoned or how -and why -"the men died. Equally unexplained is the tragic disappearance of Major Andree and, his two companions, first -to try to fly over the North Pole. Andree was an expert balloonist, a trained mien - tad and !head of the Swedigh patent office. On July 11, 1898, the three climbed aboard the basket and their balloon left its ;moorings on lonely Dane's is- land, driving northward before a fresh wind, for which they had wait- ed for weeks.. The balloon expedition was one of the best equipped ever to enter the polar seas. The bag was fitted with automatic safety valve arid emergency rip panel; it carried buoys, landing glttpnel and ropes, sledges, spars, electric batteries, medical. supplies, charts, compasses, three dnonths'..food supplies, alcohol stoves, guns, sleep- ing equipment and a collapsible boat and oars, and, in .additioe, several carrier pigeons. A pigeon was shot by a fisherman in the far north. It carried a mes- sage written on the seoond - day out, reporting due progress, and stating that it was the third pigeon message dispatched. The message translated from the Srwedish, read! "Andrea Polar Expedition, "To the Afton'bladet, Stockholm, "July 13; 12.30 p.m., 82 degrees, 2 .minutes .north: latitude, fifteen de- grees, 5 minutes .east longitudes Good journey eastward, 10 degrees south. Ali well on board. This is the third message stent by pigeon': .Andree." The other two pigeons were neve: seen. Two cork buoys were picked up containing somewhat si'mil'ar mes- 'sage"s, But the thirteenth buoy, which according to prearranged plan, would 'have bean discarded near the pole, did not turn up until two years later, and it was empty. -. If the balloon kept to the air, they should have, crossed the pole in four or fire days after leaving aDane'.s is- land, but what became of theta, their balloon and their instruments and t s }!. i$4!ettu�lifl„} h4lJ tkedF,ai Ize p acccemnooeiottte-54 afftle tat east aide Of tea eii. 1P wi/11 be alk extIenareU of Albert Ste. i velli Stet a stretch to Nicholas SDrettt, car ding traffic right sato-x,,owe**awn' just to ,front of the present soul houlao. Boulevard Projec s • 3 bra approach to tole .!Pam 'Meantor- ial Square up EIgitl .Adelaue is a emir siderable-, grade. Adva ge will be taken of. this to Provldewparking ae- erammodtion tor, soma .;tlhousande of cars in the centre of the. City. alep oa- innately under the W Memorial. Wellington Street, in frog of the new government buildings, le; -to have its ear tracks removed Ito S ►arks Street and to be converted into ;a boulevard. The land hasalready been lecured to build • a ,new scenic driveway into the city frotm! the Moiutreal Road; •fo1- lowing the Ottawa River, and arriv- ing in the 'city at Rookcliffe, credited with being one of the most beautiful residential park areas on the contin- ent. All these improvements, ineluding the erection of the new °(government buildings, are to be foilehed within the next five or six years. The ma- jority of ,them will be completed int two. The final phase of the scheme in- volves the removal of the Union Sta- tion to a point almost at Laurier Avenue, and the covering over of the existing tracks, the razing of the Daley building to finally cure the "bottle -neck", the demolition of the Printing Bureau so as to make Sus - see Street, from the Connaught Build- ing to the new Archives, a park. space. Finally, a new National Gal- lery is planned. equipment remains an Unsolved ,mys- tery. The fate of Captain Seed's expedi- tion, in contrast, is well known, for the bodies, the records, diaries and equipment, all were found. But the why and wherefore of their death far a time was as inexplicable as the dis- appearance of Sir John Franklin. Scott and his companion's crossed the Antarctic ice cap, . and, after weeks of terrible suffering, arrived at the pole, only to find the Norweg- ian `flag which Amundsen had plant- ed there but a few weeks before. Weary and discouraged, they started the long trek back to their bate ship. Immediately things began to grow wrong. A terrific blizzard blowing al- most without interruption for a month, sapped their strength and shortened their marches,• throwing them far behind schedule. The blind- ing snow dust blew with suck fury that it cut away pillars of ice and even at an eighth of an inch off their wooden supply boxes. Then Captain Oates, one of the leaders, became ill, further delaying thhe party. Finally' he got up from his sick bed, announced he was going out and might be -gone some time, and deliberately walked away : into • the storm to die, that his presence might not (handicap the others. Lying on his death bed in a snow and ice shut, only eleven miles• from supply de- pot that might have sav d them, Cap- tain Scott wrote the fu'fi tory in his diary . "I do not think human beings ever came through suoh a month as we have come through," he wrote, "and we should have gotten through in Spite of weather but for the sicken- ing of Captain Oates and a shortage of fuel in our depots, for wihich I cannot account, and finally for the storm which has fallen on us within eleven miles of the depot, at which we hoped to secure final supplies." The rescuers who discovered the bodies found also that the oil- fuel cans were firmly stoppered, but erne: ty, or nearly so. Science, years lat- er, advanced the explanation, setting at rest the firsts guess that the oil had evaporated through the stoppers. B. T. Brooks, of the Mellon institute of industrial research, and Dr. Alan W. C. Menzies, profestsor of chemis- try at Princeton, suggest what prob- ably is the true explanation. Tin, at low temperatures, is attack- ed by a disease which turns ordin- ary metal into the allotropic form, a gray powder. This change reaches its maximum •rate at 54 degrees Fahren- heit, below zero. With the tin plat- ing gone, air or acid in the -6i1 would come in 'oonta,et with the iron of the container and oxidize a Tepidly, leav- ing the can spotted with small holes. The searching party which found Scott and his companions reported that food -supplies, 'seven feet below the oil 'cans in the depot cairns, were oil -soaked. When Commander Byrd's expedi- tion entered the Aaterctic ice contin- ent, they met conditions totally un- like those encountered at the North Pole. The northern tip of )the world is a sea, in which no land has yet been found. Through it the ice pack drifts, leaving open water lanes, mak- ing it possible for polar bear, seal, and walrus to live thtere. The ice barrier of the South Pole presents an unbroken front that en- dangers explorers long before they ev- en set foot on the plateau. Sir Ern- est Stacldleton's expedition, which planned to cross the,ice cap from the side below South America, was pre- vented from even landing. It was on August 4, 1914, that the king sum- moned Shackleton to Buckingham Palace and presented the flag which he planned to carry across Antarctica passing the pole where .Amundsen and Scott alreadly had been. That same :night war was declared, and Shackleton offered his services, but was ordered to proceed. 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