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Zurich Herald, 1928-11-15, Page 3Segrave to Seek Speed Re+cords in Motor Boat and Auto Races British Major Hopes to Achieve 240 Miles on Hour on the Daytona Track in February; Expects to Skip Over the Water at Ninety Miles an Hour London, -Tho Golden. Arrow, in Tires, he declared, were the great which Major H. 0, D. Segrave, holderproblem for racing motorists, "Last time," Segrave related, "the of the world speed record for motor company promised that the times would cars, hopes to roach 240 miles au stand up at 200 miles an hour for hour, is almost eomPleted. Major three minutes=and. they dict, This •Segrave will take the car to America time they promise one minute at 240 in January for tests on the sands of milesan hour, and that should be Daytona Beach, Fla. long enough" Simultaneously, his new Motor boat, According to plans now announced, christened Miss England, is receiving Segrave's car will present a unique final touches, This craft will be a appearance. It will be so low that the comrade of the Golden Arrow in seek- top of its tires will be the highest part ing to lower American records. Major of it; and Itcan stand upside down Segrave expects to hop, step and jump on its own wheels. over the water at a, rat& of: ninety Segrave's greatest problem lin con- miles an hour or more. nection with his motor boat is to pre "I intend to go for the records in vent it from turning over. With a February," Segrave declared in an in- single .propeller the twisting strain of terview. "It is hard to, say which of 1 the engine on the hull, called "torque,', the two records will be the more dif- is so great that there is a tendency ficult to beat; I am inclined to think !for the propeller to tura the boat over the motor boat record will be . the instead of •propelling it forward. One harder, and it will certainly be at way out of the difficulty is to use two least as dangerous as the other." propellers, revolving in opposite direc- Jucjging solely from the design of; tions. hBut the eb15 twicewthe water.—A. 'ranch car, Segrave said he knew it would i sistance produce a speed of 240 miles an hour. P. dispatch. Facts About New Warships Now on can works on special shelves not ac- essible to the general public. 'What the Galway libraries do to - Fleet Exercises day doesn't iu the least matter, see ing that in a few weeks. no books, n 'Cruisers With Oil Kitchen Pictures or sculpture will .be permit- ted iu Ireland," Shaw replied, after Ranges and Electric which he added the pessimistic pro - Bakeries .phecy quoted above.—N.Y. Herald - Tribune. (ld Ensland Noisy Cycle; It was Silver Cup Boy Settlers' 'la'. Manitoba and Saskatchewan Will Co-operate, States Forke PURCI-HAST CJI,-1EN 21 Scheme of Government Loans to Aid Buyers to Finance Ottawa -Tho Provincial Govern- ments are willing to co-operate` with the Dominion Government in bring- ing British boys to Canada and snake it possible for them to buy farms for themselves with the assistance, of government loans, .after they have reached the age of 21 years, 1Ion. 1 Robert Forke, Minister of Immigra- tion and Colonization, announced in a statement issued on his return froth a three weeks' visit to Western Can- ada. The purpose of his trip was to work out plane for closer co-operation with the'provinces. During his trip Mr. Forke had con- ferences with the Premiers and other prominent members of the Govern- ments of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Al- berta and British Columbia. Iiis et- fort to establish° closer. ^co-operation with the provinces was in keeping with the recommendations of the se- lect committee of parliament which conducted the immigration enquiry last session. "Tile Governments of both Manitoba and Saskatchewan have announced a five -lap scratch e START OF GREAT RACE vent of the British Motor-cYling Racing Club's meeting at Brooklands for the Butler which was won by C. W. C. Lacey. struetion from the Archbishop of Czar's Treasures i Tuam, have -segregated all the Shay - FIRST REHEARSAL Nelson and Rodney to Firel Byng Soon to Broadsides From 16 -in. Begin Police Work Guns In Moray Firth . during the 'next -few days some of the .newestand most "._x:o�bez•fn1ships of the Atlantic f'leet will••engage' in autumn everci,ce, some of e itsch will,,,be so eNealistic that the ,c,nly stbstartial factor missing 'will be d of art tress 1 f theportraits, r°tarns Londoi . { 300 000 000 ally rich a reit enetriy tai`geyef th Elle a �elsoii aliti,Rodney, the `lav'Y's latest� at Auction So representing Raphaeis "Sc'.. -1 of and wanted. to sleep until late in the Athens" was pre •'ented with three to the Russian Crown by the 1 afternoon From observation of his habits Scot - 0 others k this and inquiries French Dover their willingness to co-operate wit o French revolutiau. nnteatt just b°fore the land Yard new , hotel -keepers in towns near the Federal Department in its scheme • Soviet Government to Offer Empress' Furniture Priceless Objects for Sale VALUE £300,000,000 Signed Masterpieces of French • Furniture From Gatchina ! pieces by the same master furniture- - urniture anal Record Office containing neat Y hien Palace makers in the Cichelham sale two 200,000 portraits of criminals. A good boy has attained a practical knowl. London. --The Soviet Government years ago. proportion of these men are serving edge of farm work and live stock, has Other objects of art to be offered , time, others have reformed and are become 21 years of age, and has saved will offer for sale in Berlintuon Ns- are jewelled snuff boxes, candelabra now good citizens. while many others � up about $500, the Governments con - • 9 picures, furniture, tapes-• iu ormolu and lustre, eXcnusite French • have gone d All these portraits' cerned will make him a loan of $2,500 among the scene of the robbery soon dis- for the settlement of British boys in covered the afternoon sleeper. i Canada," said Mr. Forke. Under this Provincial and The French furniture consists main- To the detectives whose mind, scheme the Dominion, ly of signed pieces by the most cele- through long association with cram-, British Governments join forces to brated cabinet-makers in the reign mals has become a veritable picture give the boy an opportunity to become. of Louis XVI, specialty executed for gallery. and whose faculty for memor-' a farmer in Canada. British boys, the Empress Catherine II. izing faces, has become so keenly de -1 especially selected, between the agto es Some estimate of the value of this Veloped, such tasks present but little of ge id farm work and 20, who o will undertake of section of the sale can be formed by difficulty. the total of £ 150,000 paid for a few Housed at Scotland Yard is a trim- three years, will be placed in employ i ' t on Canadian farms. When a Will b' t tittit on Reorganization of Force Be -Started Immediately. by Its New Coin- rnander abroad. e ' Ord of the for the purchase of a farm of his own, .tries, and other are. o pec s s C° are classified with the ret belonged to Czars and Russian noble bronzes. Itatiau bas reliefs, French b g and German gold and silver work, and particular type of crime and fall into the loan to be repaid over a period of men; enamels. • different • catalogues. Althuogh there twenty years Chem° which was very • .Tb.e Bolsheviks have confiscated,' or ..Limoges'The Russian royal palaces and the' may be several persons wanted for "Another rc ilycl . provides for the tionsinnli`R,uss all private art collet collections of the Russian -princes,' similar offences, the trained mind Of favor -61)1 u tions Russia, and. by. this means noblemen were especi- the detective, after a few minutes' estabiishemeet of t ainngen for • - -� archdukes 'and t - 'iscount BYar of Veiny .have .become possesseddomestics iu Great Britain—one i It in French eighteenth ceu study o per ra has gone to Scotland Yard to begin ores worth e about tury ort. All the finest furniture ; piste I>icture o e pro nd full- Engweeks' England and course will beof given free to his rgone to S o Scotland the metropolegin If the result of the forthcoming sale and pictures, e•ceept the pieces made faced appearance of the fugitive I six has gone the Scotland Yardoa to begin of a first selection to be f the French Court were comms Result of Tralmn9ni come work a Canada through ears of a Royal Commis sioued b} sion headed by Lord Lee of Fareham, has been hearing what is right and wrong with police methods as they now exist. Lord Lee, like Lord Byng, was once a soldier. He was the British Mill; tary Attache .with the American forces during the Spanish-American War, and filled the same post later at Wash- ington. He married Miss Ruth Moore of New York. His present task is to find out what is `wrong with London's police force, once the city's pride, but lately the recipient of more brickbats than encomiums. Evidence so -far taken has been mainly in defense of the police force by its present heads, many of whom will retire when Lord Byng takes command. Sir William Harwood, Chief Commissioner, and Sir Wynd- ham Childs, Chief of the Criminal Investigation Department at Scotland Yard, who fall within this category, emphatically denied that anything like "third-degree" methods has been prac- tised ray tised in this country. The task of the police, they said, was to obtain from witnesses by all the artifices they could employ any information they required, but the moment those witnesses became sus- pected persons and started to .make statements that might amount to confessions, it *as the duty of the police to warn them not to say any- thing that might be used against them. This duty was always carried out, they said. Sir Wyndham, however, admitted° that a belief in "third-degree" meth- ods had become rooted in the public mind.. "Perhaps engendered by the preva- lence of crook films," suggested Lord Lee. A certain amount of indignation has been caused in feminist circles by the blunt assertion of the Chief . Comms -s sioner and his assistant chief that women police are still an experiment whose success has not yet been dem, onstrated. They have been used to watch the drug traffickers and to con- vict fortune-tellers, but, according to Sir lyilliain Harwood, they have been found "unfit or responsible work." The role of the silk-stocking sleuth apparently is cast on Bard lines in this country. The only critic 'of the police yet heard has been a niagist;•ate of long experience, Band his criticism is rather of the use to which the force is being put, Ile pointed out the growing ten- dency to employ the police to protect battlechipe, will fire broadsides from .their intense 16 -inch guns, JIood. Re- nown and Repulse, ships of the battle ,cru.ser squadr-in, will fire .15 -inch broadsides while • steaming at full power. NIGHT ATTACK. Cruisers, destroyers and aircraft terriers will shoot at Centurion -ail old battleship which is the target ship •of the Atlantic fleet—and destroyers will' carry out a night attack on the Third Battle Squadron. For the first time in autumn exer- icises Nelson and Rodney; the two great new battleships, are taking part. To say that they look odd is to be I:olite. "Ugly" would probably not be too harsh. The effect to the eye is .a lack of balance, which contrasts strongly with the fine lines of the bat` tle cruisers. ONE TON, ONE SHOT. But these ships carry, a bigger de- structive power than the designers of British fighting ships have ever at- tempted. The sixteen -inch projectile weighs just under one ton, so that • a broad- -.side means nearly nine tons of metal .and explosive. The guns have a maximum range of just under 22 miles, and it has been estimated unofficially that tetiat can n thousand yards the projectile pierce seventeen inches of armor. To build the ships costs early seven l which and a half million pounds, ' about three millions represent guns and turret armor. They carry ,complements of about fourteen hundred officers and men, who consume .two and three-quarter tons of food a day. 1,200 LOAVES A DAY The vast stores in the ships provide for carrying naval stores and dry pro 'visions for six mouths, while the re- :frigerating system makes it possible . to carry provisions for nine weeks. The ships' kitchens would snake the ;average housewife green with envy. ,Coal is unknown. Oil, which fires the • tboilers, also heats the cooking ranges, • rand an electric bakery produces twelve " [hundred loaves a day. of these treasures s_ or fulfills expectations, it is likelytheRussian collectors at followed by other auctions. the time; and the Russian palaces The works to be autctioued in Ber and mansions all contained rooms en - lin next month include pictures, scalp• tirely decorated with the owners' ture, tapesteries, bronzes and signed favorite artists' works. Nearly all the masterpieces of French furniture from best pictures by Hubert Robert, for the Gatchina Palace, which was a per- sonal palace of the Czar, and contain- The treasure ed 300 pictures; from the Mikhailoff Palace, the world -fatuous Hermitage Musuem, and other "nationalized" collections. "nationalized" art. The Soviet Government, as is well known, "nationalized" all the great private art collections in Russia, add- ing, thereby four thousand master- j® Scotland pieces by old masters to the Hermi- JJit �� tage Museum, which already contained. I eleven thousand pictures, and incal- culable wealth in ecclesiastical and domestic objects of art of all kinds. Detectives Trained in Con - The contents of the Hermitage stank. Registering of Fact and Form perts early this year at £ 50,000,000, and the total value of the Soviet's During the past few days a noted art treasures cannot be less than burglar was caught in the English £300,000,000. Midlands purely from observation of issued for his arrest. The pictures to be offered in this his Habits, writes a student of crime I A few seconds'. study of his photo - first sale include works by Boucher, in the London Daily Mail. Far too graph at the "Yard" sufficed. In the 1e finger -print female domestics contemplating house Acute observation can onlyie from a mind developed and trained in "With regard to the miner harvests the Minister said: "It seems the constant registering of facts and situation, - forms. I to be settling down quietly. So far Observation Yeas brought many Crim- i as I could learn the great majority inals to justice. The annals of prim- t of the harvesters fitted into positions biology teens with instances. Not . on Canadian farms without much dif- s now offered are long ago Stewart, sentenced to death 1 ficulty. worth a sensational total, but the for. the Bayswater murder,e was ar- powers only There pueP a weerh aps a few as mush collection even so is only a sample rested by a detective but of the Soviet Government's stealth in of observation enabled him to pick 1 trouble as his man out of thousandsonthe front I quickly weeded could, out. May of the at Southend. 2 harvesters now returning to Great Bri- Outside the police force Sir Bernard ; tain will carry good reports of Canada Spilsbury, the eminent pathologist, is ! and probably many of them will come an outstanding example of the train -t back as permanent settlers." ed, observant, analytical mind. He is considered by the authorities to be a prince of observers. At all times of the day and night a detective's powers of observation may be put to the test. A few mouths ago a Scotland Yard detective was told that a man whom he had never seen was in the stalls of a certain theatre and that a warrant had been Shaw Sees "Dark Ages" in Ireland Dramatist Comments on Free State's Censorship bf Books London --"Ireland is going to relapse' and support morals rather than simply into the dark ages," is George Bern- to enforce the law, which, in the long and Shaw's warning oft what will run, gave the best results. happen when the Free State's censor- Changes of time and custom gave ,Ship of books will become law. provided new duties for the espolice. "The Free State has apparently de- Drunkenness, lie states, ,cided not to be a cultured coLesscreatrouble than ooy or .obut the s lta- It has decided that books, pictures s ;and statues are dangerous, so it isn'tdoubled and tripled their traffic ditties, ;going to have any. Ireland will sink while the growth of the night-club to the cultural level of the Andaman habit keeps then busy in the small Islands ---that's all," the veteran hours. ,dramatist added, An investigation is 'now being made G. 13. S,'s Comment was called forth by the London police chiefs to aster- -when an interviewer drew his litten- tain the source of the leakage of of - •tion to the fact that the public librar= ficial infermatioit about the recent 'lee in County Galway, following fit- raids oil such establlsitmeiits. Yard Observes Museum alone were valued by ex- Greuze, Canaletto, Hubert Robert and clever to leave other favorite eighteenth century inas- behind, the man was caught on the ters. The sculpture includes J. B. afternoon following the robbery. Lemoyne's celebrated marble bust of It has been his habit after "crack - Marie. Antoinette; the tapesteries are ing a crib" to go to any hotel in a Gobelins of the finest period. • near -by town and ask for a room. ex - One great piece of silk and wool plaining that he had travelled all night half light of the auditorium the offi- cer, standing by an exit door, was able to pick out his man and make an arrest. There was nothing distinctive about the man's face, and to an un- trained mind this task would have been impossible. A Ton of Death Just Launched a TERROR OF THE SEAS A torpedo fired from the deck tube of the. new Chilean destroyer Orella during its trials in the English sbou after "it had been launched. Ontario's Fiscal Year Now Closed • Temiskaming Railway Hand: Over $1,300,000 Surplus Treasury Toronto.—Ontario's fiscal year 1927- 28 closed at 3 o'clock on Oct. 31st. One of the last acts of the Treas• ury was to deposit a cheque for .$1,. 300,000 from George W. Lee, chair. man of the Temiskaming & Northern Ontario Railway. This represents net operating surplus of the railway for the year, and is the same as the surplus of last year. It was stated, however, that the amount indicated the best year in the history of the road when an expenditure of $300,000 on track and right of way repairs was taken into consideration. Full interest charges had also been met on the $6,000,000 loan negotiated in the spring to carry out an exteu- sion program. Neither Premier Ferguson nor Pro- vincial Treasurer Monteith would comment in regard to the condition of Ithe Provincial purse, but it is under stood that the Government expects to be able to announce a surplus of approximately $225,000. THE REPTILE "The reptile: How dare he speak of me that way'." "Why call him such a name?" "He's a lounge lizard, that's why." "Ho wmany tulles do you imagine he kissed you?" "So far 'ti haven't had to imagine eh's kissed me at all." Small Boy: "Please, Munt, I don't like these holes in the bread." :Pared Mother: "Never mind. You needn't channel eat the holes. Leave thei t on tb* plate:"