The Seaforth News, 1930-11-27, Page 3Startling Sensations Made
At R-101 Investigation
Inspection Chief Says He Would Have:Refused Airworthiness
Certificate—Expert SaysThey Were Fouled
by Wires, Bolts and Nuts
London, -Inspection. Chief retie- red to holes in the dirigible's gas bag,
Which ' the .designer ' insisted resulted
in a',startling" loss ox gas.
McWade seed the gas: bags were
fouled by wires, nuts and bolts in
he been asked he would not have thousanda 'of places throughout the
given a certificate of airworthiness for great ship, He testified this condition
its fatal tight to India. was "very serious and unsatisfactory,"
This testimony and the introduction and declared had he: been asked he
, -of two letters' relating to holes in the would not have given a certificate that
bag of the big British dirigible which the R-101 was airworthy for a voyage
crashed in France, provided the great- to India.
.est' sensation yet, brought out in the MCWade said he had recommended
inquiry, which is attracting deep inter- that the R-101 cease flying until the
'est throughout Britain, defects had been remedied.
The letters were read by Sir John The dhigiblo's crash in Franco on
Simon, head of the court of inquiry,' October 5 resulted to the death of Lord
They were written by Cola Richtnond, Thomson, Air Minister, and 47 other
.designer pf the R-101, to MoWade last persons, includiug many of the best
Summer. minds In aviation in the British Em.
In each letter, Col. Richmond refer- piro,
'Wade :of the Cardingtoa Airfield, tes-
tified recently before the court of in-
quiry into the R-101 disaster, that had
Junior World Mark
Established By Boy
In Parachute Jump
Charles Daly Jr. Drops 16,200
Feet and Drifts 15 Miles
Toronto—Charles. Daly jr„ of To-
ronto, •18 -year-old student of Humber-
side Collegiate, established a junior
'world's record for parachute jumping
..1Olonday afternoon, when, he made a
'successful descent from an altitude
of 16,200 feet from'a Buhl plane pilot -
•ed by Captain Earl Hand.
Amid the cheers of many hundreds
:of spectators at the Century Airport,
the climbed .into the machine at 3.3b
sem., and in a few minutes the ma -
'chine disappeared from sight as it
soared skyward. In vain„ did the
watching and expectant throng look
-for his landing, although hundreds
were still•on=.the ground one and one -
hail ]sours later, when word came that
the youth had :lande'i.safeiy'in Scar-
boro' Township.
Turned Sbmersault
Speaking shortly after his: descent,
:youpg Daly related that he had made
is perfect landing, and was none the
„worse for his experience, -"Some-
thing happened n few seconds after I
had .left the plane," he stated, "and
as I pulled the cord,: I. seemed to turn
:a clean somersaults' Just what took
place he was ata less to know, but
Black Diamonds
Brazil has long been noted for its
nuts and has made the front page re
oeutly with its revolutions. But The
Engineering and Mining Journal has
the story of a different kind of Brazil
Ian product,` namely, black diamonds
Africa is by far the largest produces
of white diamonds, but. Brazil is
thought to lead. the world in gents of
theblack variety. Three varieties 'of
diamonds are known: the crystalline
gem stone, the bort, resembling the
carbonado and the true carbonado
Brazil possesses the only kno.wn com-
mercial deposits of the carbonado, a
so-called anthracite variety of din
mond., The largest diamond ever
found was a carbonado, discovered in
Brazil In 1895, weighing 3;078 carats
and worth more than $3000,000 at
present .rates. Until theinvention
of the diamond -drill; carbonados were
of little value. Once thrown away
as useless, -later sold at twenty-five
cents a carat, these huge, hard,
rough, eeamonds now bring a hun
dred and eighty-five dollars a .carat
in the market. -Prospecting by the
use of. the -diamond -drill is -now apProv
ed` 'engineering everywhere, The car.
honado ;has the distinction of -being
the. toughest substance on earth and,
ground to • powder, is .used as -polish
ing material in the cutting, of white
diamonds. Another good eeample of
the folly 'of calling a thing rubbish
and casting it to the void, simplybe-
cause we have not discovered its
he told of drifting 'eastward driven use. The so-called -rubbish-heaps of
`by a cold wind. He finally landed in the world are all coming in turn to be
:a plowed field on the farm of Samuel
Markham at- Scarboro' Junction, some
15. miles from the airport.
..:There was no person there to,greet
411m on his achievement, and youug
Daly, after loosening himself 'from
the parachute attachments, strolled
:across a couple of fleida to the home-
:stead of J. C. Hunter, and related
':how 110 bad come thered
In his achievement Daly easily tri:
eimphed over a record of 13,000 feet
which held only overnight, after wog-.
seer Lips had set it when lie landed
at Guelph on Sunday,. after going up
:at Kitchener.
Daly, who made hie first descent
-ouly last May, doolared that he was
now through with parachute -jumping.
"My parents do not care for it," he
stated, when asked for his reason.
'If anyone cares to beat my record,
'they are welcome to do sot be added.
DO -X Lands Safely
On English Field
(Great German Flying ' Boat
Ends Second Hop of
Ocean Flight
Calshot, Eng:—The DO -Ii set itself
down stere smoothly on Nov. 10th at
the end .of the second stretch ;of its
transatlantic flight to New York. She
.carried 15 . in her crew and. 21 pas-
sengers,
The next hop will beHavre, whence
the DO -X heads for Lisbon, then Out
across the ocean for the Azores and
the United States,
ti
Peddler—"Any. umbrella'rimgs, pen-
oils, teapot spouts, studs, shoelaces,;
brushes or needles?" Lady—"Go away
or I'll call the police." Peddler—
." 'F.,re
eddler'"'ire you are, lady, whistles, six-
pence each."—Passing Show,
worked over again with many start-
ling results.—From "The New Out
look."
Dependents of 84.01 Dead
Will Receive Compensation
London.—Tho British Government
Will pay compensation to the depend-
ants of victims of the crash of the
airship R-101 on .Oct. 5, Frederick
Montagu, Under-Secretary for Air,
announced in the Hot.se of Commons
recently,
The versions will vary front $900
with a grtstuity of $2,250, plus $120
annually on account of each child, to
pensions of $5.50 weekly plus $1.25
weekly for each child. These apply to
dependents of the airship's officers
and men.
Civilian pensions will be paid vary-
ing from $500 to X1,500 with special
children's allowance except for those
already receiving pensions under the
worknienscompensation regulations.
The 'latter awards where necessary
willbe made up by the Government to
the scale paid civilians not so qualified.
The, farce pension is, $900, while
the civilian scale is about $285 annu-
ally.
Great National Resources
Assure Canadian Supremacy
Forest areas, vast water -power :de-
velopments and manufacturing plants
in all areas of -Eastern Canada the
world's chief source of newsprint,
pulp, and paper supply,
Northern Wild Flowers
Many varieties of wild flowers grow
in great profusion throughout the
treeless plains of Northern Canada.
Newly Crowned King of Abyssinia
A visitor from the city one day
asked a farmer 'which he did with
such au enormous' peach crop. The
farmer replied:
Teacher—Tommy, if you had fifty "Well, we eat what 'we, can, and
cents, and you lent your father thirty what we can't we can."
cents, and you then lent your brother "We do _ the same thing," replied
twenty cents, how'nmany cents would the visitor. "We sell what we can
you, have? Tommy -I wouldn't have sell, and what we can't sell we cam
any sense. • cel." -
Astr•
onomers to Watch Heavens
To Deteirninee Date of Meteor Showers
Washington.: Astronomers through -
'mit the
hrough'9utthe comity, with the assistance of
a large.. group of amateur observers,
will soou be watching the night sky
for shooting 'stars, hoping to learn
whether we may expect a huge meteor
shower, In November, ,1958 or 1934.
tell showers occurred in 1799,:1833
n 138, when the sky was said to
I len covered with shooting stars,-
' lore,
tars,-'.lore, which looked like tlse in-
-,able ribs o s-klgantic umbrella.
•
• View of Magus Ras Tafari, as he was crowned co -ruler of Abyssinia with
Queen Menen in 1928, a scene which wee repeated recently, on his corona.
tion as sole Emperor of Ethopian Empire.
Nations' Good -Will
:Stressed at Opening
Of Border Tunnel
Services Mark Dedication of
Windsor -Detroit . Tunnel-
- Many Attend
Ceremony
Windsor. --Fitting ceremonies mark-
ed the dedication and formal' opening
of the Windsor -Detroit vehicular tun-
nel on November•, 1st,
Cheers, baud iniisic, bursting of
bombs, choking of camera and the
flare of flashlights, were the noisefea-
tures of the two occasions which drew
thousands of people from both sides
of the line into a joint celebration of
an international event of importance
—the completion of a $26,000,000 pro-
'ject which is the lust vehicular tun-
nel to connect two nations.
• Splrlt.of Amity
Men prominent in public life in both
Canada and the United States played
an outstanding part in the program
of addresses: which featured the activi-
ties. The burdenof the spoken words,
was emphasis of the spirit of amity
which has existed for more than a
century between the two countries,
and stressing of the fact that this lat-
est means of intercommunication will
go far to strengthen the bonds which
now bind the two nation%, and to fur-
ther emblazon before the world the
great thought of peace and harmony
among peoples.
Shortly before noon, when the pro-
gram of addresses ended, President
Herbert Hoover'.pr'essed a button in
Washington which actuated the great
gongs beside the speakers' platforms
at both sides of the tunnel, marking
the official opening of the great tube.
This wasthe signal for prolonged
cheering by the immense crowds, and
Another was expected, in 1899, but
failed to, materialize for reasons that
had not bean foreseen, •
There may be, 'however, anothe'
lirititant display within the next few ,
years, It re,: the meteors` should be
more numerous than they Irave been
for a long time. . The nights of Nov.' ,;
14 and 15 ars the.. dates for the display ;
of'meteors' Which astronomers and in- '
terese
t d amateurs - 'will count to•deter-I Zero Agha, said to be 158 years old, learns from Princess`Mahletka, New
mine the date.P t the shower of shoot'' York city,: Indian philosopher; what the future holds for hint, white a group ;.
Mg stare,` 'of 'giria•from,Retaliated 'ballroom gaUies around .to ]talon he
aerial bombs crashed overhead and.
bands blared forth.
"The Fdeetway"
The announcement was made that
the name selected for the new tunnel
is Detroit -Windsor Tunnel—the Fleet -
way. A competition for the choice of
the name was conducted by a Detroit
newspaper. John T. Wills, of Detroit,
find Michael J. Walsh of Windsor, for-
merly of Hamilton, will each get $300.
Willis suggested the .first half of the
name and Walsh the latter half. The
judges felt that the combination was
the best name proposed. Ten other
suggested names were given, honor-
able mention.
' S
MIXED FISH
You can eke out deft -over flab to
make an excellent.silpper dish by add-
ing a can of shrimps, creaming all
of it together and baking in casserole.
COAT CUFFS
Oftentimes the only part of your
coat lining that is 'worn is the cuff.
You can match the lining with ribbon
and add a new cuff very easily.
TO ALL LANDS
Oauadian newsprint exports reach
alt quarters of the civilized world.
Sleeping compartments, fitted with
Proper bedsteads, running hot and
cold water, steam radiator's, folding
trouser -hangers, and a temperature re-
gulator, aro now running on one night
express between London and Aber-
deen.
Iris Lad been sitting with an ab-
sorbed look on her face, gazing at
her father. "Why did you marry
mother, dad?" she suddenly said,
"Because I was a fool, I suppose," he
replied. "Poor Mums," said Iris soft-
ly. "What do you mean, miss?" asked
father Sharply. "`I mean that it was
sad for mother to marry a fool, dad,"
explained Iris seriously.
156 -Yeas' -Old Turk Peers Into the Future
Doctors Should Study People 1 how Languages Grew
Who Have Not Become Sick
The next great advance in medical
science., the, distinguished British sur -
goon, Lord Moynihan, said recently, in
an address at Guy's Hospital Medical
School in London, should be the study
of healthy individuals instead of sick
ones; perhaps ,especially the study of
individuals svho are just about to get
sick. When the average patient calls
in a physician or goes to' a hospital,
Lord Moynihan said, the forces of Na-
ture usually are fighting in the last
ditch. The physician has only a for-
lorn hope to,worle on. What medical
science now knows about fighting dis-
ease is comparable to what a military
strategist would know of warfare if
he were never sent for until the bat-
tle already was nearly lost; if he
never commanded an army until it al-
7eady.was defeated and in full retreat.
It ought to be possible, the British sur-
geon urged, to develop, an entirely:dtf-
forent type of medical science, deal-
ing with normal people and with the
light against digease before the first,
engagement has gone in favor of the
enemy instead of afterward. To
create the detailed knowledge of nor-
mal and"ueareiormal" human beings
necessary for such a. science, Lord
Monynihan advocated the establish-
ment in medical colleges of professor-
ships of normal human physiology,
giving these professors and their as.
sistants access not only, to hospital
sick peiteuts and to sick people gen-
erally but to groups of normal people
in ordinary walks of life, and especial-
ly to people who feel themselves just
beginning to fall sick
Canadian History Depicted Can ,, 1 Record Is
In. Royal Christmas Cards
A delicate compliment has been paid
to Canada by the PrinceofWales in
his choice of a Christmas greeting
card, for it comprise. a reproduction
of the painting by Bernard Gribble
of the full-rigged sailing ship of
Henry Hudson, sailing the Atlantic
in 1610, when he discovered what was
afterwards called Hudson's Bay.
Mounted on a dark blue card like em-
bossed leather, the inside leaves carry
a brief history of the foundation of
the Hudson's; Bay Company and the
wish "Each chance and change that
swift winged Time brings in Be for
your greater good."
The King's Card, also a painting by
Bernard. Gribble, depicts "The Sailing
of th'e Loyal London from Deptford."
Built by the. Lord ayoi, Alderman and
Companies of :the City of London in
1666 she was said by Pepys to be the
"beet -ship in the world." The motto
on the greeting page is "The' Heavens
give safety to your purposes." Her
Built by theLord Mayor,Aldermenand
a garden scene, being et painting by
Flora Pilkington. entitled "The Frag-
rnnce of the Flowers," and in addition
to an appropriate quotation by Alan
Estmere it bears the motto "fair days
to you and may each glad tomorrow
Bring Happiness to you." The coach-
ingn.picture..of the Duke and Duchess
of York is entitled "The Good Old
Days", and war painted by Gilbert
Wright. It carries a quotation fro
mCharles Dickens and the wish "A
Merry heart, a Merry Day, And many
friends on Life's Highway." The card
of. Princess Mary is "A Garden of
Sunshine," painted by Edith A. An-
drews, and like all the others is typi-
cal of the magnificent art work. •
Cotton For Road -Making
Burnley, one of the big Lancashire
cotton towns, has just launched an
experiment which may result in the
finding of new markets for cotton
cloth.
The corporation is resurfacing part
of its streets, and on certain lengths
it is using Burnley -made cotton, It
is .believed that the cotton will help
to make the surface waterproof, and
that it will last longer.
Similar experiments have been made
in America, where cotton has been
used successfully in the construction
of both concrete and asphalt roads.
Id tilt use of cotton for road -making,
spreads, a great deal of cloth can be
used iti this way. Itoad engineers aro
always on the look•cut for new ma-
terials, so there should be no difficulty
there, •Among their previous experi-
ments may be mentioned the use of
rubber, which may be encouraged now
by the very low price to which the
raw material hal fallen recently.
Fastest Destroyer in World
Is Being Finished by France
Paris,—The French navy will soon
possess the fastest .destroyer in the
world. The finishing touches on the
Bison are beiug rushed in the Lorient
navy yards and arrangements are
being made to enter the ship into
active service sometime this week,
The Ministry of Marine has de-
cided to assign the new destroyer to
"high seas' service, where it will fly„
the flag of Achei"al Laborde, who is to
take command of the second light de-
stroyer squadron.
The latest speed record of the Bison
has not been disclosed but it is said
the maximum will exceed that of the
French destroyer Valmy, placed In
service early this year.
Serviceable Holder
With •coarse crochet cotton make a
chain about six inches long. Turn
and make a treble in each stitch.
Work back and forth with trebles,
taking up back thread each time to
make a rib. Do this until you have
a strip, which, when folded, gives a
perfect square.
Make a row of 81 ''cos all 'around,
catching edges rogeth'ir, then make a
shell with picot in inidle. I have no'
directions for'this, me :e it up myself.
It is heavy enough i:ithout a lining
and so easily washed. I also crochet
wash cloths, maldug two pink, 'blue
or yellow stripes to Area of white,
with the colored edge, They are
pretty, too.
•BORAX STARCH
If you add a .Pinch of borax to the
water in.whlch-you rinse your linen
• batlete collars and cuffs; they will
have n pristine crispness when iron-
ed.
Lowered 3 Hours
St, Catharines — The package
freighter Georgian, under the Som-
mond of Captain D. Hudson, centime
ed recently to make records on the
Welland ship canal. The first steam-
er to pass through the new water-
way when the northern division was
unoelcially opened for navigation at
Port Weller, ,she was also the first
boat to pass through the twin flight
locks at Thorold, and now she has
set a new reebrd when she clipped
four minutes from her own time, and
negotiated the passage from Thorold
to the end of the breakwater in Lake
Ontario in three hours and six min-
utes,
Seaweed May Yield
High -Grade Paper
One of the bigproblems of the day
is to find new sources for the supply
of paper. Most of it made from
wood, but we are using up the world's
timber faster than nature can grow
it for us.
From Russia comes news of a dis-
covery welch may revolutiorize the
paper -making industry. An engineer
named Srelijeff was strnek some time
ago„ with the idea that seaweed prob-
ably contained the essential sub-
stances for malting .paper. Now be
has evolved a process which allows
this to be done on a large scale at a
remarkably low cost. A factory near-
ing completion in the neighborbood of
great sea lakes in Sibel'a will, it is
estimated, yield an annual seaweed
crop of 100,000 tons,
By means of novel machinery, sea.
'weed can be converted into paper in
less than halt an hour. Sixteen dif-
ferent ]clads of paper, as well 83 card-
board and glue, have already' been
obtained from seaweed, and the'chief
waste product is a fireproof sibstance
that San be manufactured into tiles.
The Possibilities of Tubes
While driving along 111.65 reeetitly I
spied au abandoned inner tube by the
side of the road. Right then and there
I began to figure on the possibilities
of such tubes.
One inner tube 1 gave a thorough
washing. When dry I made a hand-
bag from it by cuttiug two pieces
eight inches by five inches. The bot-
tom was cut into fringe, the sides
pinked and laced up. To finish it up'I
worked a beaded design on the front.
Bands were cut from the tube, cov-
ered with ribbon, and the addition of
organdy flowers made them into fancy
garters—A Reader,
Goiter Preventive Found
In Kentucky Limestone
Lopulsville. Limestone now pro-
mises to join the anti -goitre cam-
paign,
This rock contains small quantities
of iodine, the goitre remedy, says a
report of the Kentucicy Agricultural
Experiment Station, and is useful in
making fertilizers.
"When these fertilizers are used in.
growing important farm crops," says
the report, "the iodine content of the
latter is apparently enriched and foods
better suited for nourishment of ani-
mals are thus produced."
Canadian Office in Cairo
A new Canadian Government Trade
Commissioner's office is to be opened
at Cairo, Egypt. The territory for
Ihis new office, which will open some
time in December, includes Egypt,
the Sudan, Palestine, Cyprus, Syria,
Irak and Persia. When the Canadian
Trade Commissioner takes over at
Cairo, Canada will have 34 trade com-
missioners in different parts of the
world and a eormercial agent at
Sydney, Australia,
Prince Receives
Boyd and Connor
London — - Capt, Errol Boyd and
Lieut. Harry P. Conner, Canadian
trans-Atlantic fliers, were received by
the Priuoe of Wales 'at York House
on Nov. 6th.
The prince gave us a• marvellous
little time," Captain ,Boyd ,said. "We
were with him talking probably for
forty minutes. Mostly he discussed
.aviation.- He seemed to know agreat
deal. about ilyiug. Ile mentioned the
German DO -g and seemed •very inter-
ested --in tlse:possibilitieseof future de-
velopment along this line."
The earliest human inha6dtauts of
lane earth had no Inuguage such as we.
have to-day.(They.spoke to. one am
other largely in signs and gestures,
Pointing. at a man or an object for
want ,ef a name. Children do the
same thing today when they want, to;
call attention to something of which
they do not know the name. Exclama-
bone like "Oh? Alit Eh?" have been
used from the very earnest times to
express such varied feelings as sur-
prise, pain, sorrow, Internet, disgust,
and contempt. And these words, or
"sound gestures," are the same in all
mederu languages.
Not only were actions imitated in
dumb -show, but 'natural sounds wore
also imitated, and the sounds made
were used in names. For example;
"ka-ka" means crows in Sanskrit, an t`
"pipit" moans whistle in the 'Malay'
language. Words similar, to thes
were probably the earliest words used.
11cat lar '
The n er ull com ed
we.d f y p
guages of the present day, that boys
and girls and so difficult to learn,
have all grown out of such' small b
ginnings as these, just as a ohickes
comes out of an egg and an oak -tree
from a tiny acorn.
Oyster -Bed Veterans
Have Yon ever encountered an oy
ster that measures over a foot across?
If you do, you may be pretty sure that
he is a centenarian.
Oysters can live to be a hundred—
as Professor John Eyre„bacteriologist.
to the Worshipful Company of Fish-
mongers, revealed recently -and the
specimens which do so "measure a -
foot or more across,” But very few
oysters get the chance of attaining
this ripe old age—the species is too
much in demand.
Whether centenarian oysters are as
good to eat as their younger brethren
is not known. Anyway, the size
would nsake it difficult for any new
oyster -eating records to be set un
with 100 -year-old specimens.
111r, A. P. F. Chapman, the famous
cricketer, once ate 210 oysters at a
sitting. While the English team we:e
in Australia they were presented site
a huge sack of the shellfish, and glial
lenged to eat the lot, 112r. Chapma%
at any rate, did his bit?
Wales To Have New
$4,250,000,'Rna l
A new. £850,000 ($4,250,0001 road,
which le being constructed between
Penyclip and Penmaenbach, in Wales,
will resemble; when finished, the :8111-
988,, Corniche on the French Riviera.
The task before the engineers is the
reconstructcion of a winding and dan-
gerous road, and the work to be done
includes blasting a 70 -foot tunnel
through solid rock and erecting a
long, wide viaduct 40 feet below the
present narrow winding way.
Owing to the magniture of the work
the county council is to receive 85 per
tent. of the total cost from the Road
Fund.
It is interesting to note, foilow'ng
the recent articles in the Daily Mail.
(Londont, •that tbis road is to have a
tar macadam surface like that of Cita
Scottish main roads, and it its ex-
pected that the consequent freed ni
from skidding will make it mailer
with motor tourists to
North Wales,
The Crab Crawl
The Fishery Board of Scotland hie
been investigating the old problem 'tf
"why girls leave home"—the "girl,"
in this case being female crabs.
It has been proved that they do
leave home. Crabs have been caught, a
distinguishing nark has been placed
on them, and they have then been re-
placed in the sea. Later on they have
been recaptured many miles front
their original district. The curious
thing about their wandeninge is that
the lady crabs always seem to travel
in a northerly direction.
Trips of fifty, seventy, and evena
hundred miles have been made by
crabs. In one case a crab captured
near Banff was recognized by means
of its Fishery Board mark as one that
had been replaced in the sea four
years before, between Abroath and
Montrose. It had travelled about 100
miles in the interval, --
Investigations into these crab
crawls are continuing, and it is hoped
that they will be extended to other
stress.
Earthquake in. Quebec
Predicted ' in 50 Years
Montreal --Quebec province wilt.
probably be free of earthquakes for
some 50 or 60 years at the end of
which there is a possibility of another
quake of less intensity than that of
1925, R. Meldrum Stewart, directoror
Dominion. Observatory, said here at
the recent annual meeting of the
Royal Astronomical Society of Can.
ado,
The director expialaed that statis-
tics showed that Quebec had been
the seat of- an earthquake at some-
what regular intervals every' 60 or 60
years since 1660. For this reason he
thought structures and large works.
should be built to withstand motive -
ate shocks.This could easily .be•
doste, he said, and would preveut fu-
ture.
utureloss : in property damage stscit
as was occasioned in 1925.
Teacher: • . "Willie, what did . Sir.
Walter. Raleigh say . when he placed
his cloak .ort the muddy road for
Queen Elizabeth. to .walls on?" Willis
ardent picture -goer): "Step on it,
kid„