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The Seaforth News, 1930-07-03, Page 2r British Girl on Way Rockefeller Gifts To Race Speedboat Miss Betty Carstairs, Undaunt- ed by Segrave's Death, Hopes to Win at Detroit London—Miss Betty Caretaire, un- daunted by the recent tragic death of Sir Henry Segrave at Lake Winder - Mere, sailed- aboard- the steamship Berengaria for the United States with i er motor boat Estelle V, with which she hopes to establish a new .epeed record at Detroit. She will be the only British en- trant for the International (Harms- worth) Trophy, as ,the 'result ,f 'Sir Henry's fatal injtr_'es when his chal- lenger, the Miss England II, oyer - turned while'gotng at a speed of about 100 miles an bola: Miss Carstairs expressed deep re- gret at the death of her rival and friend;but saidthat she world not Change her plans as she was deter- mined for the sake of British Pres- tige to make n good fight for the trophy against her American oppon- ents. The Prince of Wales, who was muchinterested in the exploits of Sir Henry Segrave, sent a message of sympathy to Lady Segrave. It read: "Please accept my deepest sympa- thy in your's and the country's great loss." Australia Reduces Naval Expenditure Saving of $1,500,000. in Ex- penditure on National Defence Effected Canberra, Australia—A saving or $1,500,000 expendit-•re on national de- fense and the grant of one million pounds, or about $4,850,000, toward the state governments for unemploy- ment relief, were announced in the House of Assembly recently, The Prime Minister said the unemploy- ment grant would be made from rev- enue. He further said that in view of the financial stringency the (love eminent would accept the advice of the naval board ant' transfer the naval college from Jarvis Bay to Flinders Naval. Base, Victoria. The Minister of Defense, Hon. 15. A. Green, announced that with the re- vision to the Royai Navy of a num- ber of officers who had been loaned to the Ans:ralian Nary, with reduc- tions in the civil staff of the navy of- eces, the paying off of the crew of the destroyer Success, and the plac- ing of all submarines in immediate reserve instead of a"tive commiaeioc, the ioVernnent's defense, Expm,11 ture had been cut by ;E ". ;,,,p or about $1,550,000, Hungarian Partridge Distributed in B.C. Fredericton, N.B.—The first lIungar- ian partridge to be distributed in New Brunswick for the purpose of aug- menting its genre bird resources are being 'set free along the Bay of Fundy shore, Saint. John County, by H. G. Chestnut, of Fredericton There were recently received from Cze'cho. Slovakia, two shipments of 25 pairs of this variety of genre bird, which has already been reared in the wild state in Alberta and the eastern states with much success. Only one bird! eut of each shipmentwas lost int *amen from Europe, Two years ago other Fredericton' spar tswrn interested themselves in' stocking the forests of the province. with ring-necked English pheasants' and the specimens placed in the woods in central New Brenswick have v,ith- stood the rigoro- winter weather well and are repor..ed to be increas- ing. Baby Pets Deadly Snake As It Steals His Milk Melbourne, Australia—William Me- Clennan, of Fawkner, found bis son, Robert, twelve months old stroking a tiger snake, which was 'drinking eon. iendtedly the baby's bottle. When McClennan chased the snake It turn- ed on him and bit his leg. Emergency measures saved bis life: The snake was killed. The child's parents recalled that the baby's bottle had appeared as if the snake had been at it several times recently. They assume the re- ptile and the baby had been play- mates for some time. Ancient City Found Mexico City.—The discovery of an ancient buried city, which arcbaeolo, gists believe dates back to the antedi- luvian period, near the town of Rio de Las Playas, state of Vera Cruz, was reported June 5 in a Puerto Mexico dispatch to the newspaper Excelsior. Representatives of oil companies prospecting in the practicallp unin- habited region discovered the buried city. Only the roofs of a few of the tallest buildings are visible above the earth, the Excelsior dispatch said, Slight excavation revealed bierogiy phics which are reported to resemble cuneiform characters as well as mem- ides and pottery, "Well, can't you denote? It never takes me more than a minute to make up nu mind." "I'm not surprised, my dear. It shouldn't take anyone more than a minute to make up your mind." Reach Vast Total Offer of Park to the City Re- calls the Long List of Benefactions John D, Rockefeller Jr's recent of- fer to the City of New York of a $13,000,000 park and museum 'recalls the long list of gifts made by the Rockefeilers, father and son, in the United States and abroad, It Is esti- mated that they have given nearly $750,000,000, three-fourths of that sum elnce 1011, for work that has promot- ed health, education, scientific re- search and international good -will, John D. Rockefeller Sr, built' UP a fabulous fortune (conservatory esti- mated at $1,000,000,000), and then directed his energies into a new chan- nel—the business of giving away money. John D. Rockefeller Jr. wise- ly shepherds the fortune, the major part of which is said to have been turned over to him, and administers, with others, much of the expenditure of the great funds created by his father. He, too, makes personal gifts. In round figures he is known to have given $70,000,000 to far-reaching en- terprises, There is a difference in the meth- ods of the two men. The father or- ganized a great benevolent machine, and gave tbe world a new means of dealing constructively with social and physical needs. The son is a builder, and his imagination leads him to structural expressions. His efforts in this direction, not long ago, brought him an invitation to become an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects. a Workers Hindered By Noise and Heat Swampscott, Mass:—Climatic condi- tions, coupled with noise from the streets, have a decidedly bad effect upon some classes of office employees, ucc•,ncling to P. B. Griswold, assistant seers:. ry of the Aetna Life Insurance Company, who spoke recently at the closiu. session of the National Office Management Association's convention at the new Ocean House, He advanced two thoughts with re- spect to the general effect of noise on the efficlency of office workers, point- ing out that experiments have shown that by reason of the nature of the work as well as the type of the work- er in some establishments a certain degree of noise, provided it is at a proper pitch, has a beneficial effect upon and Increases the efficiency of the worlter. Tile stresses that in one defiulte instal ce loss of efficiency in one group of wsrkers ascribed to warm weather in the s'lmmer months was directly traceable to street noises entr.?',m the o0{ce through the open 1IL''Owa. —_ Aviator Sets New Altitude Record U.S. Lieutenant Pushes Plane Over Eight Miles Above Earth Washington,—Lieut. Apollo Sounek ascended higher into the heavens than man has ever been before when he nosed his little monoplane more than eight miles up recently to set a new world altitude recrrd, official calibra- tion of his barograph revealed. The bureau of standards calibration shelved that the navy flier attained the unprecedented height of 43,166 feet. The new record exceeds by 1,372 feet the 41, 794 foot mark of Willi Neuen- hoffen of Germany. Gangsters' Plans Defeated by Police Detroit -Members of gangland who are equipping their cars with low wave radio sets that they may tune in on the broadcasts of police depart- ments are in for disappointment with the announcement recently by Glenn W. Watson a Detroit inventor, Wat- son has perfected an instrument that by wireless will type the messages on a machine in the cruising ears. With this new invention officials will receive reports of crimes with- out gangland knowing anything about it, The machines will be so syn chronized that they will take down the messages being sent out only to machines "set" for such messages. Bobbies Will Not Get White Coats London,—Policemen clothed all in white are no more easily visible at night than officers with white gauntlets on their blue coats ,it has been deter- mined after exhaustive tests carried out under the Commissioner of Police. Therefore, the proposed innovation of putting policemen into white over- coats will not be carried out, it it an- nounced. Spanish King Shares In Mother's Estate Madrid,—Because the, Queen Moth- er, Maria Christina, died without leav- ing a will, her estate will be divided so that King Alfonso will receive one - thrid and the heirs of his two dead sisters the remainder. The estate totals about $3,000,000, and its settle- ment was made recently with Premier Borenguer and Minister of Justice Es- Mary Riddle, full-blooded 20 -year-old Quinault Indian maiden, is reported trade as witnesses, to be first of her race to wiry air pilot's license. Quake ShakasBurma . One of first photographs to reach this country of earthquake in Pegu, ancient capital of Burma, when town was reduced to ashes and nearly 1,000 lives lost. Canadian Cattle No Damage in Fruit- Japanese Living Purchased by U.S. Ripening Process. Sales Throughout Dominion Experiments Prove No Harm Exceptionally Good - in Ethylene Method— Many Farms Visited Sun -Ripened Fruit Better There is no danger to health from the ethylene process of coloring to- matoes and citrus fruits to make them appear as though they had ripened on the vine, experts of the Department of agriculture have found as a result of extensive experiments in artificial ripening. Drs. D. B. Jones and E, M, Private sales of Holstein cattle throughout Canada have been excep- tionally good lately, according to the Extension Service Department of the Holstein Breeders' Association, which reports both the home and foreign de- mand nose active than earlier in the year. The exports to the United States alone have totalled more than 1,400 head since Jan. 1, while shipments Nelson, chemists of the Bureau of have also been made to Japan, South Chemistry and Soils, in a recent report America and the B tial. West Indies. , to the American Public Health As - During the past two weeks several sociation, declared, however, that fruit American breeders have been in Can- treated with the ethylene process does ada looking for Holsteins, one of these not have all of the vitamins of that representing a very large breeding ripened on tree or vine. establishment, spending several days Experiments with tomatoes showed of this week in Western Ontario in- that those permitted to ripen fully on specting the herds with a view to buy- the vine are superior in vitamin Bon- ing 100 head of high class cows and tent and food value to those picked bred heifers, green and then treated with ethylene gas to give the rich red color of ripe- ness. It was also found, on the other hand, that the ethylene process re- sponsible for the glowing red color has apparently no effect of a harmful nature on the vitamins which have al- ready formed in the green fruit. The chemical treatment, however, stops the development of the tomato. Two Claim Plane Records Dessau—A. Junkers junior baby plane with pontoons has added two new world records to Its list of five recently established. The new re- cords are an endurance flight of six- teen hours and twenty-eight minutes without a passenger, and a distance flight of 2,100 kilometers (about 1,200 miles) over a closed course. Tre world's smallest all -metal plane developed an average speed of 165 kilometers (about 1)2 miles) and hour during the endurance test. Budapest—Arpad Lampieh; an engi- neer, established what is believed to be e record non-stop flight for small airplanes recently when he covered 1,000 kilometers (about 620 miles) in a midget plane weighing 200 kilo- grams, flying a circuit between Buda- pest and Waren. Canada Increases Trade With Japan Canada's trade relations with Japan have been steadily improving in re- cent years, In the last five years, Canadian exports to that country have risen be over .6 per cent., while im- ports of Japanese goods into Canada have almost doatled, During the last year there bas been a drop in exports and a slight falling off in Im- ports. The decline in imparts is negligible, while the decrease in ex- ports is one more instance of the in- fluence of the state of the grain trade which bas led to a fall in Canada's exports to many countries, China Destroys German Church Shanghai.—One of China's first places of Christian worship, the old German church In the Consulate area, is to be demolished, A $1,500,000 theatre, the largest and most luxuri- ous in the Far East, is planned for the site. Indian Maiden Gets Her Wings Sea Takes Heavy ';Mounties Unaware Toll of England Lord, Mayor Present 6,000 Acres Washed Away—l' Unfortunate incident ern. 12 Towns and Villages 'Devoured ",Hour after hour the sea takes, its toll of England. Sometimes it is con- tent with eating slowly, but, now and again, it swallows thousands of tons in as many seconds. Each gale under- minee the white cliffs and sandy p`roni- ontories.' Thus.it is that. a field may be here today and gone tomorrow," writes a chartered surveyor in the Yorkshire Evening News. "It has been estimated that in. the 35 years preceding 1911 England lost 6,000 acres. During that sameperiod the sea gave 48,000 acres—a good bpi or and 20 constables. gain perhaps from some points of But a curious incident marred the view, but the unforeenate losers of little ceremony arranged for the R.C. land are apt to bolt' at the problem MP.;group's arrival in the city of.. from their own, standpoint. : London, the Lord Mayor, attended by "It is in the region between Flam-; the city marshal, the olio sword-bear- borongh head and 'Spurn oint in York - by ors and the city mace -bearer, was on shire that the most serious erosion hand. on the balcony of, the Mansion occurs, In a distance o£ 40 miles 12 'House, together with the Lady Mayor towns and villages have been devoured sae and the Chief Commissioner of the the sea. "The damage that erosion can do to Police of, the inner city. But the a seaside resort {s incalculable. Take police of the r city. p the away a beach, and very often you take aware of the 'ho of the party on away a resort's sallow d'etre, Take the. balcony, while presencethe Lord Mayor away the cliffs and you take away the looked on bewilderment, beauty -a very tangible thing in the Major: Dann, in charge of the party, tourist trade was interviewed afterwards and ex - "We all know that the Government pressed surpried as great as that of has a very crowded program, but few the Lord- Mayor's. "I received no. warning that we were approaching Arrival in City of London London,—Their curiosity fanned by the fame of the men of the "Moun- +ties," Londoners turned out in thous- ands when a picked detachment from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. recently -rode through 'London, past the Mansion Rouse to Knightsbridge. The Canadians have arrived to take part in the great international horse - show .at"Olympia.' The history of the' almpire's most romantic police force has been given plenty of publicity in connection with the visit of an inspect - would deny the urgency of tackling a In Hawaii Puzzled problem England." that is, in truth, de- stroying England:': —^ L'hildxen Breaking Away from Bishop of M vs its Montreal with those of modern America, says "The Washington. Star," are perplex- Canada's Prestige Growing,. Says Rt. Rev. Frank 1 W. Creighton e _ PROGRESS KEYNOTE Traditional Family Bonds r Customs of ancient Japan clashing '' exico ing the elder Japanese in Hawaii, who see their children growing up largely apart from traditional family influence This is a subject which is receiving more and more discussion in Japanese civic, social and business organizations and in the "vernacular" Japanese press "Canada's prestige in Mexico is very of Hawaii. great at present and »eeins destined to One Japanese editor frequently de- •'euntinue," stated Right Itev. Frank votes leading editorials to comment on Whittington Creighton, Bishop of Mex. theproblem of this "second genera- ice, who was in Montreal recently on tion." A particular instance of the his way to the Lambeth Conference. perplexity is in the relationship be- Dx. Creighton {s an authority on 14iex' tween a young married couple and the icon Indian life and lore, and his last elder "in-laws" with whom they liver article was publishes in The Forum last fall, In Japan youngsters are obedient and ture has just completed a lac- submissive to the father and mother or tore tour which has talo t blur through the father-in-law or -other-in-law, but in Hawaii the young folk, thinking and acting as Americaus, wish to enjoy freedom of thought and action, Drillers Strike Oil many of the states in U•S .' . "The Bank of Me 'al 1,1 a well known institution rr'11 1, any bra^.chos throughout our en mtr: he stated, "and the Canadian Pant of Commerce, which is my bank, k well known too, There are many Canadians in Mexico But Water Elusive City, and both they and the British Winnipeg. Ofl and gas areas are colony aTe strongly Canadian in inter - so widespread along the Sturgis cut- alta and sympathy," off in Northeast Saskatchewan • that the Canadian National Railways' work- ers are unable to meet immediate suc- cess in drilling for water, according to word received recently by railway officials, G. C. Briggs, engineer for the road, stated that drilling at Kalt- wa and reserve has encountered gas and oil, but no water•. Reports of an oil strike in Northeast Saskatchewan' originated when rail- way laborers encountered o11 and gas at Kakwa while drilling for water on the site ot the new station house at that point. Drills were sent down 215 feet before the quest for water was abandoned, At Reserve, nearby on the new lire, water -drilling was aban- French Aviators Hold Exhibition 200,000 Gather to See France's .Greatest Bring of discount rates. Airmen '250 'problem of mobilizing funds to Part .—Th Cover the German subscriptions Bug- Pans.—The most important nation- al aviation festival ever organized in Ciata Reich, difficulties for the mark, as France took place at Vincennes. The the Reich, in the retiree the next exhibition was arrn-^ed by the Aero taw days, will redeem 5the n next marks' worth of treasury notes, dated 00 Club de France aim a Paris press syn- December, 1929, petro , and was conducted under the patronage of President Donmerguo, M. Interesting Age the Lord Mayor and so we rode on," he said, "taking nc notice'of anything. itgoes without saying that had I been aware of the presence of the Lord Mayor I should have given the neces- sary orders, I am tremendously sorry the blunder occurred. I -have been wondering where the Mansion House could be. I still dont' know where it is." Young Plan Bonds -Oversold in Reich Bonds Are Taken Up Within One Hour of Opening— Italy Absorbs $5,786,- 000 Quota Berlin—The German slice of the Young plan loan has been sold three times, according to reports received by the Reichsbank. It is now de- finitely indicated that the total sub- scriptions for the two-day period will bo well above 100,090,000 marks (923,• 800,000 at par). While the success of the flotation ot the $8,563,000 slice was never questioned, the bankers here had not reckoned on such an an-• tive demand, and a template re- allotment of the portions applied for through the fifty-five public and pri- vate banks constituting the selling syndicate w111 now be necessary, In view of the readiness with which the loan Inas everywhere been ab- sorbed, financial. experts predict the Rotation will not have any apprecia- able effect on the international money markets and that the near future will,' In all probability, see a further calow- doned at 115 feet. Luent-Eynac, Minister of Air, and Workers have now bean transferred Pierre -Etienne Flandin, Minister of to Clemenceau, 14 miles south of Hud- Cornnrtree, who is also president of son Bay Junction, in the effort to ob- the Aero Club. tain a water supply. The railway con- About 300 planes took part in the etruction work is centred along the festival and the crowd attending on so-called Sturgis cutoff, which short-Ithe opening days of the exhibition was era the route from Southern San- estimated at 200,000. Among the fa- katchewan to the Hudson Bay Rail- way and to Churchill on the buy. Canadian Salmon Heads Fish List The salmon is the king fish of Can- ada, judged by commercial standards, It is nearly three times as valuable as any other single species of fish, and it accounts for nearly two-thirds of the total product of the fisheries of the Dominion, In 1528, the total value of. the production of the fisheries was $55,050,973, of .which salmon account- ed. for 917,867,053. ; The next largest contribution tirade by a single variety of fish was that of cod, its catch being valued at $6,285,777. Lads Find Gold Mine In Thistle Hunting Regina,—Sow thistle, arch -enemy of the grain growers of Saskatchewan, will prove a gold mine for lads of the southern farming district of Kincaid. The rural Council there has placed a bounty on patches of thistle which have not previously beon reported, Lads who discover new thistle patches will get 50 cents per patch from the Council, It was in this district that an agricultural expert last year found 23,000,000,000 sow thistle seeds in two cars of oats, Miners Record Claims Victoria, B.C.—The trek of gold seekers into the Tann. and Tulsequen River sections -newest and most norihorn section of British Columbia —has resulted in the recording of 800 claims already this season (up to May mous aviators participating were Lena Bernstein, holder of the woman's re- cord for endurance and distance in -a straight line, who won the only event of the festival open exclusively to wo- men fliers. Other famous fliers and machines which elicited enthusiastic applause from the spectators are .Capt. Dleudonne Costa and Maurice Bellonte in their Question Mark and Jean As- solant in his Yellow Bh•d, A Palace and a Prison What matter if your work be menial? Food must be found to keep your body alive, Clothes and a shelter so that you may strive For that to which you feel you have a call, Some honey will be blended with the gall; Success and failure teach you to derive A way to ,reach the end toward which you drive— The means of freec'.om fromyour prisoning wall. So keep your heart steadfastly on the go And tend with watchful care the growing flame, Remembering that the accolade of fame Comes only through the travail of the s0ul. Thus may you gain, by trial in the fire, At last those heights that are your soul's desire. -Francis Livingstone Montgomery in the New York Times, 20th(, according to advices received "Wax is as ennobling to the cont- by Hon, W, A. McKenzie, Minister of 1 batents as it is demoralizing to the Mines.' onlookers:"—Gerlbral Seely. Says Lord Grey "We are living in a very interesting age," says Lord Grey of Faliodon, "not merely because scientific discovery has Progressed so enormously in our time, but because things are quite different front what they were 60 years ago. "To day each discovery seems to bring us nearer, not to the end of knowledge, but to a larger and longer vista of the unknown," "Inverted Swan" is Bought for $2750 London—The tenth known copy of the rare West Australia "Inverted Swan" postage stamp' fetched 92750, paid' by an American buyer in the salesroom here May 30. Indicative of the ups and downs of picture price was a large picture by Landseer exhibited at the Royal Aeadrmy in 1825 which went for $9750 in 1882, and sold May 29 for 9430, • China Needs Aid League to Assist Geneva. The ,League of Nations' international health organization is to play an unusually large role in the or- ganization and development of the public health service of the new Chin- ese hinese Republic. The 'assistance of the League's ex- perts was requested by the Chinese government, which submitted the full .program on which it desired the League's help, Full .agreement has now been reached by the League and China on all the points involved. yi Unemployed Total • 1,775,100 in Britain London: The total of unemployed on June 2 was 1,775,000, an increase of 5.049 over the previous week and an increase of 674,915 over the same week in 1929. The modern generation will stop et nothing but a petrol station,