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The Brussels Post, 1955-06-01, Page 3Gilled Wife Greedy—Beaten To Death" The)(re Razing 'El' in searchers to their quarry,' The RCMP's first• interest the airplane as an e*tension Of the law's long arm was ,fostered by the late Commissioner Sir James MacBrien, As a young, general in World •War 1. he fre. quently mapped his tactics from the air. In 1926, as chief of the Canadian General Staff, be be- came an RCAF recruit, at Camp Borden and passed a military pilot's course. As early as 193i, a beabPlana figured in oee of the Wars Mit Celebrated Casa, that ' Albert Johnson, the so-called Mad Trapper of Rat River, Johnson, a recluse living- along the Yukon trail, was accused of interfering with Indian trap lines, When the ,RCMP investigated, he killed a constable, turned his cabin into a eertrese, then flea into the Arctic wilderness' where he eluded 'his pursuers .for near. ly two weeks, Police enlisted a plane to assist In the search and drop supplies to the posses. It was the plane that finally helped.the Mounties get, their man. It spots fed him and made' his pesitions known. In the ensuing gun bat- tle, Johnson was killed. Manhattan Wrecker* will soon begin cle, molishing Mew York City's Third Avenue elevated, last transportation link te,another century.* Inaugurated . with cable-car seri/ids ' in 1.868, over-head, u d rnacielrroesdieinagm chuf- fed pow- er from 18070 •.until 1902, when electric lois took over the aerial ra I oad, which had grown to spi.awling i four-mile netW rk blanket- ing l Manhattan,. SOloways and buses bltd the "'El" of life- giving rellenee ., canoed lin- gering death „,o'fIlie world- fa mars system, WASH THEIR LINE On the Italian Riviera an out- side balcony is considered such an important adjunct to a house that families unable to afford a genuine one have substitutes painted, feeling that this is bet- ter than having pone at all. In order to give these painted balconies more realism, many families have washing lines painted, on them with 'some arti- cles of laundry hanging out ,.to dry, ' Upsidedown o Prevent Peeking COMO OM ODE OUOMO ROO OUE mom MOMEOME 072000 EOM BMW OEM MIME EOM ORONO ORMEOD ®0®®®G EIOMMM BEDE 00MOM EOM DOE EMOD MOROI!! EMBOODE 0000E; • DED MOM nor ri ri MOUE have to consida seriously whetli. er they will flavour their dishes with garlic, If they do, they'll be forbidden to hoard a public vehicle for the next four hours, Thieves have freaiiently found it's not profitable to dine on the job.. ,Ilis greed led to a french burglar's undoing, ffe bid over- night in a Paris cinema and was found next morning, doubled up with indigestion, by., the police. Beside him were the dozen empty chocolate boxes he'd stolen, Food of all kinds has danger- ous potentialities. When two Italian lewvers duelled in 1950, their pistols were loaded with sugar lumps, Chocolate tiles have figured in duels, too, This ammunition was chosen by two American girl students in 1938, Standing back to back, they marched forward fiye paces, turned and flung their pies at,,each other's faces, .. In 1954, a 'Theme bus driver was found to be suffering from sever head injuries During a fiesta he had been hit repeatedly with a salami sausage. And when a Staffordshire wo- man was fined for assault, it was stated that she had swiped the butcher across the face with one of his own ducks When food is used as a weapon in the home,it frequently leads to the divorce eourt. To throw a rice pudding at one's husband amounts to cruelty was the ruling given in the. di- vorce court a few years ago., It might be cruelty, too, said Mr. Justice Singleton last year, if a husband threw an egg at, his wife and hit her on the head with it, An American judge recently stated that a frozen loaf. of bread was a dangerous weapon. He had before him a wife whgse husband had hit her or. the head with just such an article. But food can bring people to- gether as well as'part them. Dur- ing the war,-when fruit was diffi- cult to get, an. English girl was suffering from an illness which necessitated a diet of bananas, The - 'newspapers appealed for supplies. One of those who re- plied (was a schoolboy. For six years they corresponded, then met and married, A burnt cake may set off a matrimonial quarrel, but who would believe that a cake could burn dawn a house? It happened in Connecticut. When a cake fell from the kit- chen shelf, it struck the handle of a tap, turning on the water. Then the cake clogged the drain, the sink overflowed and water seeped through the floor. The re- tultant short-circuit set the, house alight. muir Park, OrnithOlogists went aloft with woods-wise RCMP pilots and, cruising low over likely looking areas, hunted for nests. When eests were spotted, the planes would land on the nearest lakes and the ornithelne gists'would complete the work, Covernment offieiale said it was the finest job of its kind ever undertaken. The ash-borebieg was in ap., cordance with the dying wish of a civil servant, Staff Sergeant Stan Bothwell loaded his plane with the cremated remains of the man and his long-dead daughter and sister, and depdsit- ed them On the slopes Of Mount Tzoulialem, in the COwichan district of British Columbia. The aerial vigil fer smugglers is a continuing operation, Several times in the past decade RCMP planes have epOtted tell- tale tracks in the snow and put ground searchers 6n the trail of gangs which periedically bring bargain-priced cigarettes and, electrical appliances across the United States border into Que- bec and the Maritimes. Many a car has been seized simply be- cause it left tire marks on a little- travelled country road, RCMP planes have doubled as courtrooms, cells, hospital wards and dormitories, Cargoes have ranged >from fuel to frozen fish and from mental patients to police dogs, The freight mani- fest on one trip carried the cryptic notation; "One unidenti- fied corpse." There's nothing dull about this work. Every flight is an adven- ture. Sergeant R. J. Harries set some sort of speed record in northern Saskatchewan when he was asked to search for a sus- pected suicide, The search took 30 seconds. During take-off he discovered the man's body dangling from a free on the fringe of the pasture that was his landing field, These versatile policemen- pilots may find themselves do- ing a lengthy patrol of the Northwest Territories to inocu- late or destroy animals with rabies, or perhaps seeking bank bandits, such: as 'three now com- pleting 10-year terms in a federal piison, They'd taken $40,000 from a Saskatchewan bank and got clean awalie A .police Diane was summoned from Regina. Before nightfall it had nicked up The trail and guided ground Nylon leadei's are .sometimes hard to straighten out, This can be easily accomplished by draw- ing then) through a piece of rub- ber. A bootstrap will serve the purpose well. `Fiyirng Horsemen' Lead tititink Lives The Skipper c3f a west coast boat looked up aghast one sum- mer's AO. a few years ago. Swooping' towards him, silhouet- ted against low-hanging cloud, was a trim little seaplane with an official look about it, Sten- cilled along one side were the legend MP and the unmistakable insignia Of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, The skipper's amazement was compounded 'when the plane landed alongside and the pilot much in the manner of a high- way patrolman, signalled him to heave to, ' Two officers climbed aboard, executed a warrant .and took custody ,of a passenger. The man was wanted for murder This was another incident in the day's routine of a small, al- most anonymous bend of .police- men who patrol the longest lone- hest beat in the World. For these were memhers,of that little- known adjunct of the famed RCMP—the Air Division, In 1935, the last year for which statistics are available, the blue and geld skyborne steeds of the RCMP charged across 517,25 miles of sky, equi- valent to 20 trips around the globe. The flying horsemen are liable to drop out of the skies any- time, alinoet anywhere in Can- ada, in seaplanes, skiplanes or landplanes, oh missions so in- credible they read like fiction. They've taken census of the extinct trumpeter swan and . showered humeri ashes on a mountain. They've i shadowed . smugglers, tracked robbers, spied liquor stills, reconnoitered forest fires, photographed disast- er centres, dropped parachutists, rescued babies and found bodies: The swan-counting took place in British Columbia's Tweeds- A wise man is strong; yea,. a, man of knowledge increaseth strength. —Old Testament: Proverbs, XXIV, 5. SALLY'S SALLIES GRAND CHAMPION AT 17 — Felix Fly proudly examines the entries that brought him two Grand Champion awards in the 18th annual Western Tennessee Strawberry Festival. The 17- year-old competed with older, more experienced growers, in^ eluding his parents, ... PUZZLE 14 7. Lion . ,32.610.11ilt , CROSSWOR ' 98,14,711,00..4,,., . 33. Attempt 34:: Witttesi?' 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Went' niilotibi I 45, 'Seennd selllp e 47 t;',..r1 tn ri: 49 Old. slIvrir cntr 59 1,Kg'n 1 hiqlon 51, Prvibloal bird 54 rli',,niiiic. mit' ilreiit,* 66 (reeteet, nifitivr• , 57, Pi i' it i ri',1116" (On tleitNriq t Taxi s, A eatil an, '410.e*tele64 , 15 16' 17 g.re, 7e5Iefe; 24 22 19 4:% 20 4 C rs "'re/ 24 4 Wag GUNS DON'T INTEREST HIM ANY MORE* Gen. Jahn Sailing, one -(4 three 'Surviving veterans of the Confederate Artily, seen More interested in the camera than in little'George Elkins' pittol. the old soldier recently spent his 109th birthday quietly sifting Of bailie, wearing at be* "teXas style'' hat and eating front, 40-pound birthday cake. Answet else* ere oh' 1.16 page. 4 spell end of the line • s baterted stairways .. As a protest against the stan- dard Of meals served, /1...;\ stu- dents Of the fiereford Teachers" Training College recently refus• ed to eat in the college dirarg If food is not to a person's lik- ing, he may take even more dras- tic action than, going on banger strike, Relatives who serv edbacon to a Dane when he liked only San- sages have been cut. Oat of his will. Many a marriage has broken up because of a wife's cooking. A separation was applied, for on the ground of cruelty in a Leices- ter matrimonial ,cOnkt, after the wife had prepared a dish of hedgehog for her husband, Quarrels over food have even led to murder. Hugh JOhnsen, a builder from Boston, confessed to the police that he had killed his wife 'because she told .him he could have eggs, but nO bacon for breakfast.' It can be dangerous, apparently to complain that someone else eats too much. When her husband mentioned that he thought she was greedy, a Frenchwoman beat him to death with a ham- mer. It's not wise, either, to en- courage another person to stuff herself with toed. Marie Urban, of Los Angeles, sued widowed Edith Gaines for $75,000 because the latter had fed her on ice- cream, sweets and pastries, caus- ing her to put on a great deal of weight. Edith was in love with Marie's husband, who disliked .fat women, and hoped he would turn against his wife. Eating too little holds its" perils too. It resulted in one .Sheffield womanappearing in court, accus- ed of shoplifting. The case against her was dismissed when counsel successfully pleaded that too- strict dieting and cutting out all forms of sugar had led to her losing, her memory. Yen ',should also be careful what lioueat and where you eat it. Swallowing seven live mice to Win a. bet, Austrian Johann Luge was charged with cruelty to animals. In Indiana, peeple . for New Yorks' elevated trains, and undreamt-of privacy for fc&hilies in trackside apartments, arsenic for, baiting strategic spots. But because of the danger to humans and animals poison mixtures could not always be spread where they would do the most good. EASItH. TO .GARGLE, • .11fm NAME trithusiasticanglers will travel the world over fish for unusual aneelthei* but the . citable Variety of lisherthan is Warned against .a 'visit to tire' E iji Tslatida. In the waters just oft 'the islands abounds the fish with' the longest mine In the World real tongue'-twister` titileSS cahnly ,and methodically pro- nounced. Beady.? Here it let HUM h tt ti tittleetitiktiand iih a„, A gOod teSt..fer sobri- ety if Mind boat is able' to. glaie Cage aspeetineti and hang It cver his bail . "Agriculture has accepted the responsibility of feeding and partially clothing the peoples of the world. This is no small task and one which cannot be entered upon lightly. Most of us take food for 0 :granted with little thought for those who put it on our bibles. Yet it must be grown, assembled, graded, pack- aged and transported for our convenience, Once haying en- gaged.) in this task there is a moral responsibiliity to provide ;;. a continuity, of supply. Man has become accustomed to eating regularly," writes Kenneth Cox, • Principal of 'the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. "An additional responsibility has been assumed. Some might say a moral responsibility .only, • but a responsibility nevertheless. This ivolurne .and continuity of supply must. be, provided with- out impairment of the soil. This generation does not own the soil. We are merely tenants and if civilization is to endure we must pass the soil on in a state ,of fertility as high as, or higher than that in which it,, was re- ceived. This a sacred trust. • * "A third responsibility is also assumed. Tie responsibility of providing a standard of living for the farm family comparable to that enjoyed by other seg- ments of society. Farm people enjoy the good things of life as do other people and are as 'en- titled to them. Again this must be done without impairment of the soil and other capital as- sets. • * * "The responsibility of being good citizens in the several com- munities is also assumed. A than may farm to provide a living for his family.and himself, but in addition is a citizen in his corn- nitinity. Asa citizen certain re:. Spensibilities mist be assumed: Offices of ehtiteli and state must 'be manned, 4 "What industry would place such responsibilities in untrained hands? Every itidiastry must have trained Pershrinel, hire is ho eXceptibil," 4' 4, 4 Farmers have been battling crop-hUngry grasshoppers for centuries. Until recent Years, however, it Was. a losing', fight. )(tide from natural predatorS, palSotied bait Was the Only ef-; feeder& weapon, and it, had its Limitations:, Durieg Serials Out- breaks, Much time and labor *ere ,reqiiired to *ilk huge 'qUentitieS of bran, sawdust and CilikSt QUIZ — Gina Lollobrig-e iera*,' who burst into movie fame in ragged but.resealing peasant costumes, shows to just as good advantage gowned in a flow- ing creation of lace and ost- rich feathers. The Italian beauty, shown here in Rome, recently answered queries about her measurements with, "Why do you need by the numbers what you can see with your eyes?" 7Feriga '4004614040 t)( • • Ito far fr.n. 4*. "Now don't get extravagant ideaa, dear., You know we're on• a budget." C 4 zo 27 aeee eve 2.8 26 frA 29 30 52 33 34. ee 'eve* eie i as an 39 4 "4 . 4 A7 48 52, 55 The introduction of modern insecticides has provided the farmer with new anti-hopper weapons. Poisoned bait is still used, but chemical sprays have cut dOwn on the amounts need- ed; ,and in certain situations give • protection where baits cannot, such as when a growing crop suffers, a mid-summer invasion by winged hoppers. . * • The latest chemical aid in grasshopper control, is methoxy- chlor. For grasshopper control a `methoxychlor spray is prepared from, a wettable powder and is applied at the rate of three pounds to the acre. Best results are obtained when the control program is started as soon as the insects begin to hatch in the spring. C * Methoxychior is said to give sloWer and lower kills than some other insecticides, but it still prevents any serious grass- hopper damage and leaves no harmful residue on crops. This low toxicity feature means that it 'can be used on pasture crops where dairy cows or beef cattle graze or on other vegetation used for animal feed. * * To check this safety factor, the United States Department of Agriculture fed milking cows for periods Of from - 40 to 80 days on alfalfa containing resi- dues of the insecticide ranging from 16 to 109 parts a million. The milk was analyzed at 10 day intervals but no methoxychlor could bedetected. Approximate- ly 100 tithes as much methoxy- ehlor as DDT must be fed .before it becomes detectable in milk, it was reported.