The Seaforth News, 1931-07-09, Page 3THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1931.
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FLIERS CIRCLE WORLD
IN NINE DAYS.
Wiley Post and Harold Getty com-
pleted a flight around the world at
7.47 ,4 E:S:T. Wednesday nig'h't, July
1st, making the 16,000 mile journey
in less than nine days, with 13 inter-
mediate stops:
At 7.44 p.m., the white ship Winnie
'Mae shot at terrific speed out of a
salmon -coloured sunset and a crowd
of approximately 2,000 broke into
tw11tl .sheers.
Post, the one -eyed pilot, who had
done all the flying on the journey
around the world, shot his swift plane
over the crewel, ba'nkcd steeply and
made three leisurely circles of the
'field, selecting the best possible place
for the landing.
!Getty and Post completed the world
'flight in 8 days, 15 hours and 51 min-
utes, Their actual flying time in, the
:air was only 4 days, 10 hours and 8
minutes.
As soon as the plane stopped roll-
ing catty and Post climbed from the
'cabins, turned their plans over to a
police guard, and entered an a'utomo-
bile which carried then half a utile
:across the field to the Administration
'building. As they left the aatomo-
bile the crowd cheered again and at-
tempted to break through the ,police
lines, but were largely unsuccessful.
Friends and admirers of the fliers,
grabbed them up and carried .thorn
the last stage on their shoulders as
flashlights boomed in the falling
darkness.
Suddenly the police lines gave way
and the field became a bedlam with
excitement ruling supreme and num-
erous fist fights breaking out as the
police, with night sticks in their
hands, attempted to force a way for
the fliers.
{Post and Getty took off unostenta-
tiausly a week previous from Roose-
velt Field, at a time when half a do-
zen fliers were awaiting favorable
word for the transatlantic hop. The
Winnie Mae carried them straight to
Harbor Grace, the springboard for
pilots who pick the Lindbergh or
circle route to Europe. The Lock-
heed monoplane shot up to New-
foundland, stopped for a couple of
hours for fuel and was off again, Ot-
to Hillig and Holger Hoiriis. who lat-
er spanned the Atlantic, were at Har-
bor Grace when Post and Getty ar-
rived. They .had little more than time
to examine the plane before the two
swashbuckler airmen were speeding
down the runway and heading for
Europe, That was in the afternoon of
Tuesday, June 23rd, The next day, 7
o'clock in the morning, the good cit-
izenry of Chester, England, one of
Britain's oldest cities, saw the white
airship streaking out. of the West. The
Wine 'Mae came to earth at an air-
port near Chester, and Post and tGatty
got out for •a yawn and a stretch An
THE SEAFORTEX. NEWS.
hour l'a'ter they were off again.
That day, Wednesday, they' shot
across . the channel to Han,ov'er, took
on fuel and flew to (Berlin. They
reached the German- German- capital in ;the af-
ternoon and took their first brief' rest.
At 1 o'clock Thursday morning the
hardy 1Vinihrie. Mae was wheeled o•te
to,,the line,.Post and Getty crawled' inn
olid away they went.
-ldoscow was the next stop, and it
w•as a brief one. By F rid:ay the Win-
nie Mee Was bogged in the mud at
.\'ovo•.Si�bors,b. A tractor pulled her
out;, ant
ti Poet -Getty, red -eyed and
haggard, gave her tie gun again.
From Novo,Sibir'ele they flew 900
miles to Irkutsk on Friday and at 1
o'clock in the morning of Sa.tur'day
'they sailed away for Blagovyeshch=
ensk, a flight of 1,050 Miles. •
On Sunday they flew onto Ihabor-
ovk, and Monday morning set out on
one of the most hazardous legs of
their epochal journey—the 2;400 mile,
hop to Nome and- America.
Though they we're thoroughly worn
out when they reached the Yukon
country, they halted less than three
hours.
"I want to finish in seven days if I
can," Poet said, and away they went
again.
They reached Fairbanks, Alaska, on
Tuesday morning, and a few'hours
later streaked out across an air trail
that is considered, at this time of the
year, to be one of the most danger-
ous -stretches of flying terrain in the
:meld. Tuesday night they slid into
he mud of the airport at Edmonton,,
having flown the "suicide trail" of
1,450 miles in a little mare then 10
hours,
Early Wednesday Post and Gat'ty
:limbed into the Winnie Mae and
roared up one of Edmonton's paved
streets for their, take -off. At 4.1.3 p.m.
:hey reached Cleveland. having cross-
ed the Great Lakes. Mae,
performance and the perfor-
mance of the Winnie ae, was noth-
ing short of phenomenal, in the opin-
ion of veteran airmen at Roosevelt
Field. The flight of the Winnie Mae
they believe, will stimulate aviation
•rs much - or more than the famous
Lin•dl,erg'h flight.
P. C. Hall, financial backer' of the
world flight, which was made in a
plane owned by him and named for
his daughter, indicated that immedi-
ate plans for the fliers were indefinite.
The girl for whom the Post atnd
Getty plane u -as named, Winnie Mae''
Hall, is in Long Beach, Calif. But F.
C. Hail has announced that he intends
to make Vinnie Mae a present of the
plane.
A motorist rattled into a New York
garage in ,a very old, cheap car, and
inquired what the rates were.
"x'11 have to ask you a five spot,garagesaid the garage owner. "In advance,"
he added,
"My goshl" exclaimed the motorist
"A five spot in advance, But 191
come for the car in the morning."
"Ale" said the garage man. "That's
just it, will you come?"
Hostess: Arnt you afraid your hus-
band will neg•7eot the cat while you
are away.
Gambler's wife:: Oh no. Biil always
likes to see plenty in the kitty.
c • Let us have the names of your visitors
RES'i AU
trange as it may seem, good
housekeeping is one of the
prime essentials of modern rail-
roading. Mr. Traveller has become
so used to strolling through the
train to the dining car, for his
needs in the way of food for him-
self, as well as for Mrs. Traveller
and all the little Travellers, that he
hardly gives a -thought to how he
gets a first class hotel meal, while
whirling along at 60 miles an hour.
The answer lies with about 1,200
highly trained employees of the
Canadian Pacific Railway, serving
in some 150 dining and cafe cars,
from Atlantic to'Pacific, and with
an organization in stores and farms
throughout the country,, which
places high class foodstuffs in the
chefs' cupboards' and refrigerators.
The - average number of meals
served in a yearis approximately
2,000,000. As to quantities, suffice
to say that these include nearly
600,000 lbs. of various meats
1,000,000 lbs. of tea and coffee and
some 400,000 quarts of milk and
cream. The Pictures show meals
being served hi a typical C.P.R.
diner and types of the staff of chefs
and waiters employed in the
service.
• PAGE THREE`
FIVE KILLED AT HAM'I'LTON
Despite frantic efforts of a heroic
pilot, five persons in'cludiig himself,
were killed when the airplane in which
they were riding cralsared into -a. pile
of rocks at the boundary of bhe Ham-
ilton airport on Joe 1st. The live
mien were outluhketl in the grim game
of death, for they were within just a
few- feet of a`clump` of bushes, wh,ioh
might have meant comparative safety,
Those 'killed were: Harold Raine,
general superintendent of the Caned
tan Press, with headquarters at Mon-
tre'ad; J. H. Mather, June Montreal, the
owner of the Travclair monoplane;
Charles L. Daly, jun., Toronto hold-
er of the Canadian parachute junipiug
record; Alfred Rogers, Mount Ham-
ilton, a passenger; Capt. R. M. Sterl-
ing Montreal, pilot of the plane.
The Pilot's heroism was the only
golden be=am in the dark tragedy. The
plane had been travelling over the
city endeavoring to draw a crowd to
the airport, where the Trams -Canada
Air Pageant, the most ambitious fly-
ing program ever undertaken in Can-
ada, was on dispfay. As the plane
turned to the field, it dived to land.
\:fany planes were coming down and
taking off from the field, and Sterl-
ing evidently -thought he night col-
lide with one of them.
The pilot pulled the ship back
steeply out of the dive, and the fabric
of one wing broke loose and waved
crazily. The ship w•ohbled from side
to side as. Sterling fought to steady
it. Then he apparently headed for
the small clump of trees as though he
intended to try and land amid the
clamp. Instead, he overshot them
and the plane turned on its side, then
plunged straight down. It landed on
the defective wing, folded back upon
itself and stru'c'k the only pile of
racks in the broad acres of the flying
flel'd..
The plane was just a mass of tangl-
ed wreckage when field attendants
rushed to it. It did not catch fire,
but the men had considerable diffi-
culty in releasing the broken• bodies
of its passengers and pilot. Pieces
of framework and wings were hurled
for 100 feet. The engine was buried
deep in the ground, The cabin itself
could hardly be located, so complete-
ly was the plane wrecked.
Even before the plane began to
steer its distressful course, it was
apparent to witnesses that it was in
trouble. Sterling had come in, div-
ing rather fast. He zoomed steeply,
and the next instant the staccato
ripping o'f the fabric was heard suite
plainly. Then the ship began to wob-
ble and the crash came within a few
seconds. The passengers e the ill-
tated ship would .hardly have had
time to realize that the crash was im-
minent, for the entire accident from
start to flnis'h happened almost too
quickly for words.
Pete was cruel so far as Raine was
concerned. But it was kind to an-
other. There were 'but five places on
board the ship. Four had been taken.
Officials of the airport asked Wil-
liam MdCad'lough of Hamilton to
ta'ke the fifth seat. He could not do
so. They saw Raine and called to him
they saw Raine. They called to .him
to enter the ship. Hall an hour later
his body was carried front the wreck-
ed plane,
Maher, owner of the plane, had in-
tended taking his wife as a passen-
ger on the cross-country jaunt, Mrs..
Maher arrived at the field just as the.
crash came, and was taken to the hos-
pital suffering from shock. •
Daly had been signed on to perform
parachute jumps as the pageant trav-
eled through• the country. Even had.
he carried a 'chute he would have had
ao chance to use it for the . crash
came too gmic'kiy, at too low an alti-
tude.
JUDGING COMPETITIONS,
The fifth annual Huron County Live
Stock and Household Scienlce judging
compeition under the auspices of the,
Ontario Dept, of Agriculture, was
held on Thursday, July 2, at Clinton.
There was in attendance a class of
45 girls and 33 boys, The girls'' conn -
petition was carried on in the 'agri-
cultural robins, the articles to be
judged being on display. Miss Flora
Durnin of Dungannon,, the ITuron
County coach, and Miss Bessie Watt
of Clinton, were in charge of the
class, and their points in judging
were determined by by Hiss Florence P.
Eadie of the Women's Institute
Branch, Toronto, and Mrs. W. P.
Shorey, Dundas representing the de-
partment of agriculture.
The boys' ; competition was Con-
ducted 'an the farms of Charles E.
Elliott, Clinton, Wm Leiper, Gray
brothers and Frank Woods, Hullett.
The agricultural representative for
Huron County, Ian McLeod, and as-
s'istan't, W. L. Atkinsot, had charge,
and the judges were Fred Farsyih,
of Bruce county, for sheep; G. A,
\7ldCague, horse judging; John-Ram-
esbottom, • Bruce county, for beef cat-
tle; Victor Langton; \Tarkda'le, for
dairy cattle; and Norman Hogg, of
Toronto, for swine. -
The winners were:
Senior Girls' Group.— Nutrition,
Mildred Ramstoack, Fordwich; Myrtle
Webster,' Lecicnaw. House Furnish-
ings—Eida Brown, Fordwich; Vera
Birk, Dashwood. Clothing — Hilda
Buehler, Ford wide Louise A'latthew.s,
Fordw•ich.
Junior Girls' „Group — Nutrition,
Annie. M.' Strachan, Auburn. House
Furnishing. Grace Yotmg, Dungan-
r1oe; .:Mary Harris, Wroxeter. Cloth-
ing—Isobel Foster, Fordwich, Eva
Musgrove, Wroxeter..
;High girl, senior group, Elizabeth
Alton, Lucknow, 480 points, winner of
silver entree dish donated' by T. Mc-
1-lillan, M.P., South Huron. High girl,
junior group, Mary Harris. Wroxeter,
442 paints. 1
Girls winning trip to Toronto, Eliz-
abeth Alton, Lucknow`; Margaret
Durnin, Auburn, and Winnifred Web-
ster, Lucknow; spare, Verna Birk,
Dashwood, as representatives from
Huron 'County,
'Girls winning trip to Royal Winter
Fair, Toronto: Elizabeth Alton, Luck -
now; Margaret Dentin, Auburn; Win
rifted Webster, Lucknow; Bertha
Hoggart, Bdyfh; Ruby Dickson, G•ode-
rich,
The winners in the boys' group:
'Sheep—''Albert Patterson, Lucknow;
Robert Connell, Palmerston; Bert
MdWbitm'fe, Dungannon; Warr e n
7uebrigg, 'Gorrie.
Swine --'John Fothering-haiit, Bruce-
field; Frank Wright, Kipper; Gord-
on Wright, Clifford; Alex. Corrigan,
1Vroxeter,
Horses—Horace Delbridge, Wood-
ham; Mervyn Lobb, Clinton; Stewart
\fcEw^an, 'Ciint'on; Ivan Haskins,
Clifford.
Beef Cattle—George Mandell, Glen
Avon; Doug, Heanntingway, Brussels;
John Turnbull, Brussels; John Turn-
er, 'Clinton; Dairy Cattle Robert
Yuill, Brussels, Howard Hunter, Ex-
eter; Grant Lindsay, Clinton; Wil-
mer Broadfoot, Kippen.
High boy in competition, Howard
Hunter, Exeter, 636 points, Prize,
silver cup; 2nd high, Alfred Patter
son, Luekno'w, silver medal; both cup
and medal donated by C. A. Robert-
son, AI.LJA. and W. G. Medd, ,M.LA.,
Honth and South Huron re'apectiveiy,
Presentation of prizes took place at
a dance given the young competitors,
judges and managers in firemen's hall
on Thursday evening, Ian MoLeod
and Miss Flora Durnin making the
presentations. Mr, lefelLeod address-
ed the competitors briefly congratula-
ting the winners and encouraging
those who were not so successful to
further study and effort. Music for
the dance was furnished by the Match
Orchestra, A dainty lunch was served
during the evening.
INVENTOR OF BUTTER FAT
TEST IS DEAD
Dr. Stephen Moulton Babcock, fa-
mous scientist who was found dead
on July 2nd, believed that after 20
years of constant experimenting alone
he was nearing a solution of the my-
stery of gravitation and the nature of
energy in its transference through
ether, his colleagues stated.
Had Babcock lived and succeeded
in reaching the goal which other
scientists had considered unattainable,
Itis results, his colleaguets said, would
have startled the world as much as
did the announcement of .his famous
Babcock Test in 1890.
The professor was 87 years old.
For years' he had lived in practical re-
tirement, refusing to be interviewed,
refusing even to answer his telephone,
working steadily onward toward his
new goal
During the years after Dr. Babcock
invented the standard butterfat test-
ing method, which now is the fotnda-
tion of the dairy industry throughout
the world, he was approached often
with offers of positions which would
have brought him a huge income. The
discovery alone would have brotght
him millions, but he handed it to the
world with the announcement, • It is
not patented."
{Not content with having given the
world the milk test which brought to
an end the sale of "watered milk" en-
abled dairymen everywhere to deter-
mine the worth of each cow in their
herds, and established a milk stand-
ard of inestimable value to hospital,;,
sanitariums and physicians, the aged
scientist had worked in his labdtatory
daily, excepting for brief vacations,
since he was made professor emeritus
of chemistry in 1913,
A small box two and one half feet
square, reposing fn the laboratory, is
the source of his strange findings in
a realm heretofore unmown.
After tuc decades of patient labor
he succeeded only recently in obtain-
ing the most perfect vacuum extant in
this box. Previously the plateglass
peek holes were shattered by the pres-
sure of the vacuum or the vacuum
was voided otherwise.
!inside the box swung a pendulum.
Other smaller pesdultt'tns were sus-
pended to be free at right angles to
the large one,
A sensitive electric temperature re-
cording device was corrected with
the large pendulum.it told the.
strange story. At She top of its
swing the pendulum was cooler than
at the bottom of its call, Through
the swing it grew perhaQ's one -;thou-
sandth of a degree warmeras it fell
to the bottom. Then the temperature
decreased again as the pendn'lum
s)sung up ward on the other side.
As the large pendulum swung
downward through tete vacuum, the
small ones moved slowly toward it,
Thane nearest the ':bottom of tete.
sweep of the large penchtlenT moved
most. Here, the doctor noted, was a
transfer of energy, indicated by heat
passing through ether.
Ndwtou s etatennetit that the attrae-
tion of one body for another varies
inversely with the square of the dis
tance between them and directlywith
their mass, was a rule of thumb com-
pared to what these discoveries prom-
ised if they could be followed to their
final answer. A rule accepted almost
universally by science since its utter-
ance 200 years ago seemed about to
topple for a better one.
There teas still niuch to be {lone. It
was commonplace in scientific circles
to say that there was heat produced
by energy. It was only one step to
know that the pendulum released the
energy and apparently re -absorbed it
in its downward fall. The nature of
the transmission of this energy to the
email pendulum, seemed the key. The
exact results, if there were any com-
pleted, will have 'to be gathered from
the occasional assistants in the work,.
The doctor seldom recorded the pro-
gress of his work in writing, and the
university has no check on the poss-
ible further developments which he
may have tirade from these findings.
The experiments were his own. paid
for out of his pocket, and in his own.
mind. were locked most of the secrets
concerning their progress.
SCHMELIING CHAMPION.
In a 15 -round boxing bout at 'Cleve-
land on Friday night, Max Schmeling
of Germany, successfully defended
the heavyweight chempiotship against
W. L, Stribbling, winning by a tech-
nical kttockottt in the 15th round,
Schmeling was the better man in the
entire fight. He is declared to be a
good champion but not a great one.
HOTTEST DO'MPNION DAY.
CLAIMED MANY LIVES
A death toll of 30 marked the cele-
bration of the hottest Dominion Day
an record in Ontario.
A blazing sun, little or no breeze,
coupled with a high degree of humid-
ity, drove celebrants of Canada's 64th
anniversary by the thousands to•
beaches and streams. Fifteen persons
gave their lives in seeking the solace•
of cool waters.
POISTAiGE STAMPS ON CH'E'CKS
Postage stamps may be used for
the twoeceut tax on checks and mon-
ey orders, Premier Bennett annuonc-
ed in the House of Cammors. The
special excise stamp used in recent
years were declared to be a nuisance:
by Hon•. Fernand Rinfret, former ser
cretary of slate,
STRATFORD
The action of A. B. Caya of Kit-
chener against J. 3. Holland, of St.
Colu•nban for damages to Itis car as
a result of an accident at St. Colum -
ban on July 9 last year, was dismissed
by Judge J. L. Killoran here. On Hol-
land's counter claim for $800 for da—
mages which he claimed were caused:
to his building when it was struck by•
Caya's car, the sunt of $150 was al-
lowed. Caya sued for $500. claiming
that Holland had turned suddenly to
the left as the Kitchener man was
about to pass him on the highway.
There was no intersection where Hol-•
land made the turn, aye testified. In:.
order to avoid ]tutting Holland's car, -
he stated he .turned sharply to the•
left and ran into some gravel which,
caused his car to strike a verandah.
on Holland's store. The case was op-
ened Tuesday morning and continued
all day. .An adjournment was • made
for lunch at 6.30 in the evening and
court reserved at 8 o'clock and con-
tinued until 11,30,
BAYFIELp.
The opening services of tits' Knox
Presbyterian Church will be field on
Sunday, July 12th. At the 11 o'clock
service Rev. Wm. ,Iadlntosh,
of Hamilton Road Church, London, .
will be the special speaker. At the
evening service Rea. 1V•nt. Barclay..
M,A„ of Central Church, Hamilton,
will preach, The dedication service
will be held on Friday, July lath at 3'
o'clock and will be conducte'd by the•
ministers of the Presbytery.
Among those who have retentiy
come to spend the summer in their
cottages in the village are: .1G. and
Mrs. C. R. Will, Rob and Agnes
Mr. and Mrs, J. Hamilton, Mrs. Gran-
ger and daughter, Mr, and Mrs. 1'
Fitzgerald, Mrs, James Mchfilian and
daughter, Mrs. T. A. McKenzie and
babe, London; \fr. and Mrs. H, J' -
Peter and family, R. T. Orr and fam-
ily, Stratford; Mr. and Mrs. 3. G.
Field, Tavistock; \lr. and Mrs. 1V,
H. May and daughter•, St. ' Marys;•
.Mrs, G. Murray Flack and children -
Windsor.
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