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The Seaforth News, 1927-09-08, Page 3Persia Halts British Air Plan "All Red" Plane Service to India,Barred by Refusal to Grant Landing Place Great Britain's plana for its la11-red" air relate to India, and: eventually to the Antipodes, which was heraldedas oneofthe greatest of projected world airways, have been brought to a standstill by the action of Persia in refusing to grant a landing\ place on Persian territory. " .To say that the officials ty110 have the Persian border, and Bagdad. But labored for ',more than a year to put Britain did not like the looks of the this airway into operation are peeved suggeation, which, though ostensibly over the snag which has been struck Persian, was believed to be a Russian' would be a rather mild way .of saying project, operated by Germane ancl they -are in high' dudgeon. According linking up with the Moscow air lines. to views expressed in Loudon the red Here was another "all -red" route, and, hand of Moscow -is responsible for .the according to Brig. -Gen. Percy Groves, failure to complete the "all -red" route. secretary of the Air League of the Rize Khan, Persia's new , self -am 13ritish Ezitph•e, one with political as - pointed Shah, at :one time a humble pirations behind it, ,member of the Persian proletariat and also saidto have been a flunky at the Britisli.Ministry in Teheran some "years ago, seemed perscinally' to be well disposed toward Great Britain ,( when - he converted himself into a royal figure almost over, night. An agreement was signed last year be- mine) at the present time=Bushire, tween the Persian and British govern- Bandar Abbas and 'Chahbar. meets granting landing rights in Per- sia to the British. But the Persian Parliament subsequently refused to ratify the agreement. It has been suggested that the Persian link in the air chain was withheld until such time as the British Government made some handsome monetary. offer for "4 seen a .Privilege, The British airway to India was in operation at least once some eight months ago when Sir Samuel Hoare, the Air Minister, accompanied by his wife, flew to Delhi and back. The route was.. surveyed and prepared at heavy cost by way of Basra—the ter - 1 ermans Get Concessions. Shah Riza is something of a dicta- tor, but so -far he has done nothing to bring his Parliament to'. the point of ratification. In fact, the Shah is prob- ably bringing no pressure to bear on the refractory Parliament. As Persia is not a member of the' Convention for the Regulation of Aerial Naviga- tion site has the sight to prohibit foreign machines Prom landing on her soil, Important concessions have been made, however, to a Russo -Ger- man company.. While Parliament was debating the agreement made with the British goy - eminent oyernment' the . Persian Government came forward with a proposal to open up a air service between C3ureta, on Vital Statistics Births Again Decline in Eng land and. Wales; Rate for • 1926 Approaches 1918 Low Record London. The spectre of "race suicide" has crept across tho English Channel to haunt British social sta- tisticians, The English and Welsh birth rate for 1920 again Inas shown a' decline, following the descending curve which has obtained since 1920, according to figures published by the • Registrar -General. The rate for the calendar year was 17.8 per 100,000 of population. Against this the official report shows that the death rate of infants less than a year old: was the lowest on me - cord. Scotland experienced a higher birth rate as web as a higher infant death rate than England and Wales. The 1926 birth rate tied that of 1917 and was barely higher than the 1918 rate of 17.7, the slowest on record for England and Wales. In b'rance, where the low birth rate for years has pre- sented what Is regarded as a graye national problem, the proportion .for 1926 was 18.8 for each 100,000.' Cancer, ,heart disease and tuber- culosis of the respiratory system led the list as causes of death in England andWales. Women, the Registrar -General's re- port indicates, were far 'more agile in dodging motor vehicles and in avoid- ing fatal accidents generally than were men. Also, the number of wo- men who committed suicide was less than half the number of mon who met death by their own hands. The suicide figures were: Males, 3,099; females, 1,350. Accidental deaths: Males, 9,531; females, 4,274. ritish Grants Aid Migration Imperial Assistance Stimu- lates 'Affortestation in South Australia Adelaide, 'S, Aust,—Au imperial grant of £35S,250 to South Australia as a nucleus, for starting afforestation on a larger scale was recently an- nounced by the State Premier, Riclr-' and L. Butler. 'Representatives of the British ` Government have had an eye on the southeast for a long time. It Aka is here that they expect an opportuu- ily to be able to place migrants from England. In addition, the Scottish societies • of this area are now draw ing up a scheme for the importation of families from Scotland. Several estates have been', offered to the Goy ernment for purchase and subdivision into farms, and a substantial income is assured " from these lands, where onions, ptatoes and cereals grow to perfection: In accordance with the terms of the above grant, a minimum of 50,000 acres is to be planted over a period of 10 years, and paper pulp works will also be started. It willbe necessary for the state to secure a furthers 100,- 000 acres of land to carry on the pro- ject, and already44,000 acres have been purchased at a cost of £69,000. It is estimated that the expenditure on on acre for 30 years' work will be £57. Every acre harvested will, on present' day coats, enable the state to replant, • Substitute Route Considered. Unless the Persians relent it will be necsssary,to map out a snUetitute link' on the Arabian side of the Persian' Gulf, a matter• now under considera- tion in. London. Many difficulties would have to be overcome before such a landing place could be estab- lished there. Soviet Russia has also met some re- buffs in Teheran, and one of her dip- lomats was recalled from the Persian capital because he was not successful enough in his dealings with the Per- sian Government. Nevertheless, Mos- cow's official minions in that country are exceedingly busy, and Russians were supposed to. be behind an at- tempt. by wealthy Persians to obtain oil concessions in a district adjacent to certain. areas where the Anglo -Per- sian company holds the. drilling eon- cession.' on-cession. The latest..difilculty of the Persian Government is over the terms of a contract -with Dr. Millspaugh, the American financial adviser. without involving the. taxpayer in any expense between six and seven acres of forest. This is the second grant made to South Australia under the British Policy of stimulating migration to the Dominion. Not long ago £250,000 was devoted to the development of a new wheat province, called Eyre's Penin- sula, where a great water scheme Is being carried out, known as the Tod River project. ,QMIRICA Canadra's. Leauikig Golfer d DON. CARRICK DOMINION CHAMPION Carrick shoots great golf but failed to class" in American Amateur Title Tourney. BRITISH TANKS ENGAGF. • IN HUGE SHAM' BATTLE Machines of All Sizes Sur- mount Obstacles on the `Historic Salisbury Plain - London. -A. gigantic sham battle in which more than 200 British Army tauks participated was held recently on the historic Salisbury Plain, The tanks were of all classes and ranged front the tiny two-seater "Crabs" to the huge 'wagon variety which fire eighteen -pounder guns as they speed along, The battle• started at dawn with these metal monsters stretching over seven miles of terrain . where every • conceivable difficulty had been placed , in their way. Squadrons of airplanes descended upon them unexpectedly, sections of the plain theoretically was soalted• with gas and steep gradients requiring all the skill the drivers couud muster had to be negotiated. Some .casualbies were reported. A. few tanks were unableto mount the greasy slopes of Beacon Hill and slid backward down hili. One "iron horse" got in a quagmire and had to be abandoned. A. crowd of several thousand wit- nessed the manoeuvres and showed great interest, ,particularly in the later "Crabs," which are the latest experiment in the tank line. These have a caterpillar trach and also two wheels in the rear which are equipped with balloon tires. At one point it was demonstrated how easily the "Crabs" could be camouflaged with foliage. Among those watching the demon- stration was a retired British cavalry Paul Redfern's solo 4,600 -anile dash from Brunswick, Ga., marked au ef- fort to break the existing long dis- tance non -atop record, made by Clar- 1 encs Chamberlin in his flight from New York to Germany. From the take -off point at Brunswick, Georgia, to the coast of South America it is 11,575 miles. To reach Rio Janeiro !down the east ,coast of the southern oontinent Redfern had 3,700 miles. on fly. It wouldappear ire is another loss to aviation pioneering, as no word or hien has reached us.. as trees!" he muttered finally as he turned away. The Geneva Fiasco London Truth (Ind. Lib.): I should call the recent proceedings at Geneva one Of the most lamentable exhibi- tions of political folly that have been seen in the last fifty years.. . . The Conference was by its constitution the worst possible medium for arriv- ing at agreement. How can you ex- pect the professional fighting men of different countries, naval and mili- tary, to agree between -themselves about the limits to be put on their own services, except under definite instructions from their political super- iors? Fighting is their business: in tact their raison d'etre. An admiral Or a general charged to negotiate with the admirals and generals of rival armed nations, can no more give away points to the other side in ne- gotiations than he can in war. If his Government' has left open for discus- sion any fundamental difference of opinion, his business is to look at it as a `fighting, man, not as a. pacifist' Governments have no business to put their -admirals and generals into stroll a position. The White Pine in Canada The botanical range of the white pine in Canada extends from the At- c 'antic ocean to the province of Mani- a toba. It is confined to the region ly- ing south of a running approxi- h mately from the southeast corner of a Lake Winnipeg, through Lake Nips- T gon, along the height of land north of t Lake Thniskaming, through Lake St. John to Point de Mots on the St. Law- rence and Cape Breton Island. Saved for Nation Stonehenge Circle on Saha. Eury Plai'n, Great War Camp, to Be Preserved London Pr mo Minister Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald, Viscount Grey and other prominent persons recently .eigne,l an appeal for $1.75,000 to pur- chase laud on Salisbury Plain for the purpose of preserving the remains of the prehistoric structut'o at Stone- henge. It is prapo:ed to protect the imme- diate n r:o•nvtiiugs of the Stonehenge Circle nom the erection of unsightly buildings. Nine yearn ago, after the original owner was prevented 'by the Actfor the Protection of Ancient. Monuments 6,0111 Selling Stonehenge stones fortransportation to the United States, it was presented, to the nation. It Is now proposed to pull clown a huge air- drome erected near by during the war `so that posterity will soe it against the sky in the lonely majesty before which our ancestors stood in awe throughout all our recorded', history." Stonehenge, the most imposing megalolithic monument in Britain, has long proved an enigma to scientists and a never-ending, sourco of romance tor "novelists. Its name, a modifica- tion of a Saxon term, means' "hanging stones." The Normans called the col- lection of stones "Choir Gaur," or the Giant's Temple. What the stones Were originally reed for has proved as great a puzzle as where they came tiom, for In the geological formations for miles` around there is nothing re- sembling thorn. Excavations and measurements have proved that originally they form- ed two concentric circles enclosing the tallest being 221/2 feet and 3 feet posed of the largest upright atones the tallest being 22@ feet and 3 feet 4 inches thick -only seventeen re- main. The inner circle, composed of smaller stones, is exactly 9 feet with- in the circumference of the outer. Although their origin has been va- riously ascribed to the Phoenicians, Belga° and the native Druids, no con- vincing evidence has ever been pre- sented which would rationally solve. the mystery. Scientist Goes to. Live on Iceberg Takes Dog Along, Rubber Boat and a Phonograph Edinburgh, Scotland.—John B. Simp- son, a British scientist, has left here with the intention of malting his home on an iceberg for three months. Ho was accompanied by a Samoyed° dog. "My purpose," said Simpson, "is to gather material for a book on the ice fields. I expect to be very comfort- able in my abode on some drifting ice- berg. I.shall erect a fur -lined tent, and I will warns it with au oil stove. I• have plenty of reading matter and a phonograph. "I have no idea where I alien drift to, but I have a collapsible boat In case of accidents." -- 4 Moscow Prepares Moscow Pravda.—One thing is, quite clear: we shall have 'war, and that very soon. . Not so very long ago we said that war would not be, that we did not want war. We still do not want it, but the latest events have forced us most seriously to pre- pare. . repare... We by no 'means want to frighten anybody with the horrors of heroical warfare. In some places we :ready notice the appearance of ante and dread, where the people ave been told unnecessary stories bout the destructive forces of gas. hese stories have certainly erred on be side of exaggeration. Science must be militarized, , .. We are con- fronted by a terrible danger. We must not lose a single. minute. Care- fully watching our enemy, we must accelerate our preparations , . , and victory will be ours. officer. As he looked on he appeared Good political timber is often de- more and more disgusted. "Christ- veloped on" the stump: The Hope 'o f the Empire The 1927 British Polo Team, who will ride against the American "Big Four" in the international' matches at Moadowbrook on September 5th. Big Storm .Lashes South of England Two Mail Steamers Collide and Shipping Driven to Shelter London—Ali this. year's records of summer rainfall were eclipsed ou Sat- urday, aturday, August 20th, by a great soutae westerly gale accompanied by tor- rential rainstorms which raged throughout the south of England and' 1 generally around the coasts. Seaside holiday makers and whips hail to •atrsh for shelter, regattas, and bathing wore suspended and from all points game reports of damage to crops -and other destruction through severe storms, The 900 passengers on the two mail steamers. St. David and St. Patrick had a tryingexperiencein a collision off ' Fishguard, Wales, the foroe of which carried away tine superstruc• turn under- the bridge. It was 2 o'clock in the morning when the collision took place.. In the darkness and, -.raining torrents it was impossible to ascertain the extent of the damage, consequently the 600 per- sons abroad' the St. David and the 300 on the St. Patrick, most of whom were half-dressed, became frantic and the utmost efforts of the ships' officers •hardly served to prevent a panic among the screaming and fainting Women and children, several' of whom were injured in the confusion of scrambling to the. deck. Both mail boats, although) consider- ably damaged, managed to return, to Pishguard under their own steam,. when the St. David's passengers were. transferred to another steamer which saildelay,ed for Ireland after considerable All cross-channel steamers had ter- rible crossings, among the sufferers being Prince Henry, who after a holi- day at Le Touquet, crossed from Bou- logne to Folkestone. A London ex- press train was derailed near Maid- stone but nobody was injured. Air liners also had rough crossings and needless to say the inclemency of the weather seriously interfered with seasonal channel swimming and the projected trans-Atlantic flights. Urges Removal All Auto i oras To Ensure Safety Driver Should Depend Brakes and Steering Gear to Guide Car on CONFIDENCE IN HORN New York—Automohtle. :borne, ori- ginally dovlsed as a safety measure. for highway traffic, have been so uni- versally misused, says C. T. Strong, President of the Buick Motor Com- pany, tbat he now believes .if they were removed entirely from automo- biles the result would be a marked de- crease in automobile accidents, "Without horns, he points out. "it would not take long for every one to realize that safety depends on keeping -the: eyes.'and ears open, : which is, after all, the only sure and: complete remedy , for accidents. A. long step in the direction of greater safety will have been taken when drivers realize that they cannot drive with the horn." While admitting that horns do oc- casionally prevent accidents., he states that they have inoculated, the average driver with a false sense of security which often breeds carelessness and results in disaster, "If automobile owners would try to drive their cars," adds Mr. Strong, "without the aid of the electric siren which is now standard equipment on every car, I am sure they would find themselves driving with more care .h than they had eXercised since their S b Sea Cook Guilty In 2nd Degree; Gets Ten Years Jlxiy Deliberates 3 Hours in U.S. Court; Judge Fixes Battice's, Penalty at Mini- mum Prison Term. Earl Leo Battice, mulatto 000k 02 the sch'oorler Hing'sway, which came into port; Jrecentiyi wiltiy a strange story of murder and near -mutiny ou a voyagefrom the West Indies to the African Gold Coast, was found guilty of eecoud degree murder y a fury in United States Court and was gives the minimum eentence of ten .years,' imprisonment in Atlanta Prison. Bat - lice was charged with the murder of Ins wife on the high seas last Febru- ary 5. The maximum sentence 005- etble under the verdict was life im- prisonment. Defendant Watches Judge During the summations by the at- torneys and while Judge Anderson was speaking, the defendant display- ed a keen interest in the proceedings, tilting his head to one side and. keep - fug 'his eyes fixed on the speaker. Caruthers' Ewing, who, with Prather 5, McDonald, was appointed defense' counsel by the 'court, pleaded theun- written Raw. He reminded the jurors that the de- fendant's affair with Emily Zomba,the Porto Rican girlat San Juan, had no bearing on the murder two months: later. He hurried on to the relations between Mrs, Battice, the Negro's wife, and Waldemar Bari Badke, the engineman, while the schooner Kings- way was in mid-Atlantic on its way to the Gold Coast of Africa. Iia declared that when Battice saw his wife In the embrace of the engineman ho became crazed and did' not realize what he did from then until he had slashed his `wife nineteen times with a razor. "Knives were in his mind," said Mr, Ewing, "and ought to have been there, nothing else could have been." He pictured the defendant as -"physi- cally weak, cowed and -crushed" in the face of Badke, "the bully, coward and • • yellow bound." Tuttle Charges Premeditation Mr. Tuttle told the jurors that the defendant had willfully intended to kill his wife from the time he fell in love with Emily Zamot, The defense was untenable, he said, because the only evidence to support It was the testimony cf Badke, who he admitted, agreeing with Mr. Ewing, was "an im- measurable Ilan" Every around on Mrs, Battice "cried out for justice,` he declared, and no evidence showed that Battice had ever asked the captain for protection from Badke. "I agree," he said, "that Badke is a yellow dog and a cur. There Is only one thing worse and that is to take a man by the hand and say, 'Come aft, my wife is crying for you.'" Judge Anderson .pointed out that the case would probably be a unique experience for every juror and told then: to weigh- carefully the testimony of EmilyZamot. If, he eaid, they should discover that the murder was conwzitted:in..the heat of passion they could render a verdict of manslaugh- ter, and, if they eblieved that the'de- fendant had lost this capacity.• to dis- tinguish between right •and wrong at the time of the fatal slashing they could render a verdict of "not guilty." AMAZONS KEEP MEN OF TRIBE IN LUXURY They Do the Work and Fight- ing and Are the Rulers of Their District Baku, Azerbaijan. --A tribe of Ama- zons in which the women fish and hunt while the men are locked indoors and kept in luxury 4s described as in abiting the Zakatal district_ by the oclety for the Study of Azerbaijan, says Tess, the Russian news agency. 'rhe tribe is called the Yassi and is of Dagestan origin. The Yassai women, like the legen- dary Amazons, are described as abso- lute rulers in the 'private andpublic affairs of their tribe: They settle quarrels with neighboring tribes with. weapons, do term work and control the sale of tbetr products. They keep their husbands and sous luxuriously idle or engaged in petty household affairs, the more laborioue household chores falling upon .the girl members of the tribe. It is regarded as stunt - Eying to the family dignity to permit the men to labor and the woman who fails to provide well is considered an outcast. The women are described as tall in stature and beautiful, of a dark viva• cions Cancastan type with masses of glossy -black hair, Adjacent market towns esteem them highly for their honesty- and intelligence. The tribe consists of approximately 150 fami- lies and is believed to be the rem- nants of the Ava people who inhabit. ed the Caucasus centuries ago. Wright Motor Maker Assails Pacific Race Bay Shore, L.I.—Charles L. Law -1 ranee, inventor of the Wright, Whirl- wind motor used on the transatlantic and California•Iiawait • transatl.antio flights recently, 'condemned • as "lit - otic" the offering of prize money for the airplane: race to Hawaii. The time is not yet ripe, he said, for races where various planes start :at, a cer- tain time regardleas of. theffIr condi- tion tor Beloit extended flight&, first experience as drivers. Drive two locks through traffic without the use of the horn and you will find that you are using more cars than you have ever used before to avoid accidents, You will drive as you should always drive, with due regard, for others who, are sharing the public streets and highways. This is true because you will not be (placing exaggerated ooniidence in a noisy bit of mechanism which can- not and never could of itself prevent accidents, ,even though many drivers show by their actions on the road that they credit it with such powers. "Then round out the test by noticing ELS you drive, and as you cross- the streets ou foot, what'effect tiro horns of other cars have on you. You will discover that the sound of an electric) horn no )auger causes you to jump out of the way, or pull your car over to the side of the road. Usually it is only after repeated warningsthat you notice the cause of the noise. Sometimes this happen& too late, and there is an aecidept which might have been prevented if the driver had de- pended moire 011 Pia steering wheel and brakes than on his horn," Water.PowerDevelopment The present recorded water -power resources of the Doninion will permit of a turbine installation of 41,700,000 horse power; The total tydraulic in- stallation up to the end of 1926 throughout the Dominion' was 4,556,- 226 horsepower or.lesa than 11 per cent. of the recorded Water -power; re- sources, • tip...