Zurich Herald, 1930-11-20, Page 6Startling Sensations Made
At R-101 Investigation
Inspection Chief Says He Would Have Refused Airworthiness
Certificate—Expert Says They Were Fouled
by Wires, Bolts and Nuts
London.—Inspectien Chief F. Me- red to holes in the dirigible's gas bag,
Wade of the Cardiugton Airfield, tes-
tified recently before the court of in-
quiry into the R-101 disaster, that had
he been asked he would not have
given a certificate of airworthiness for
' its fatal flight to India.
This testimony and the introduction
of two letters relating to holes in the
bag of the big British dirigible which
crashed. in France, provided the great-
est sensation yet brought out in the
it quiry, which is attracting deep inter-
est throughout Britain,
The letters were read by Sir John
Simon, head of the court of inquiry.
They were written by Col. Richmond,
designer of the R-101, to McWade last
Summer.
In each letter, Col. Richmond refer -
Junior World Mark
Est :. blished By Boy
In Parachute Jump
which the designer insisted Testi
in a "startling" loss of gas,
McWade said th ga al bags were
fouled by wires,
ts i
thousands of places throughout the
great ship. He testified this condition
was "very serious and unsatisfactorY,"
and declared had he been asked lie
would not have given a certificate that
the R-101 was airworthy for a voyage
to India.
McWade said he had recommended
that the 8-101 cease- flying until the
defects had been remedied.
The dirigible's crash hi France on
October 5 resulted in the death of Lord
Thomson, Air Minister, and 47 other
Persons, including many of the best
minds in aviation in the British Em-
pire.
Newly Crowned King' of Abyssinia.
'Doctors Should Study People
Who , Have Not Become Sick
Black Diamonds
Brazil has long been noted for its
nuts and has made the front page re-
cently 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 producer
of white diamonds, but Brazil is
thought to lead the world in gems of
the black variety. Three varieties of
diamonds are known: the crystalline
gem stone, the bort, resembling the
carbonado; and the true carbonado,
Brazil possesses the only known com-
mercial deposits of the carbonado, a
so-called anthracite variety of dia-
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 the invention
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, c!Smonds now bring a hun-
dred and eighty-five dollars a carat
in the market. Prospecting bg' the
use of the diamond -drill is now approv-
ed engineering everywhere. The car-
bonado 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 example of
the folly of calling a thing rubbish
and casting it to the void, simply be-
cause we have not discovered its
use. The so-called rubbish -heaps of
the world are all coming in turn to be
worked over again with many start-
ling results.—From "The New Out-
look."
Charles Daly Jr. Drops 16,200
Feet and Drifts 15 Miles
Toronto—Charles Daly Jr., of To-
ronto, 13 -year-old student of Humber-
side Collegiate, established a junior
world.'s record for parachute jumping
Monday 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,
he climbed into the machine at 3.3b
p.m., 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-
half hours later, when word came that
the youth had landed safely in Scar -
bon' Township.
Turned Somersault
Speaking shortly after his descent,
Young Daly related that he had made
a perfect lauding, and was none the
worse for itis experience. "Some-
thing happened a few seconds after I
had left the plane," he stated, "anal
as I pulled the cord, I seemed to turn
a -clean somersault." Just what took
place he was at a loss to know, but
he told of drifting eastward driven
by a Cold wind. He finally landed in
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
him on his achievement, and young
Daly, after loosening himself from
the parachute attachments, strolled
across a couple of fields to the home-
stead of J. C. Hunter, and related
how he had come therefl
In his achievement Daly eabily tri-
umphed over a record of 13,000 feet
which held only overnight, after Weg-
ner Lips had set it when he landed
at Guelph on Sunday, after going up
at Kitchener.
Daly, who made his first descent
only last May, declared 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 so." he added.
DO -X Lands Safely
The next great advance in medical
science, the distinguished British sur -
goon, Lod 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 who 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
lora hope to work 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 -
View of Negus Ras Tafari, as he was crowned co -ruler of Abyssinia with
Queen Menen in 1928, a scene which was repeated recently, on his. corona-
tion as sole Emperor of Ethopian Empire.
Nations' Good -Will
Stressed at Opening
Of ', order 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 an November lst.
Cheers, band music,
Dependents of R-101 Dead
Will Receive Compensation
London. --The British Government
will pay compensation to the depend-
ants of victims of the crass. of the
airship R-101 on Oct. 5, Frederick
Montt.gu, Under-Secretary for Air,
announced in the Hosse of Commons
recently.
The ?elisions will vary from $900
with a gratuity of $2,250, plus $120
annually on account of each child, to
pensions of $5.50 weekly plus $L25
weekly for each child. These 1pply to
dependents of the airship's officers
and men.
Civilian pensions will be paid vary-
ing from $500 to $1,500 with special
children's allowance except for those
already receiving pensions under the
workmens compensation regulations.
The latter awards where necessary
will be made up by the Government to
the scale paid civilians not so qualified.
The • force pension is $900, while
the civilian scale it about $285 annu-
ally.
On English Field
Great German Flying Boat
Ends Second Hop of
Ocean Flight
Calshot, Eng.—The DO -X set itself
clown here 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 be Havre, whence
the DO -X heads for Lisbon, then out
across the ocean for the Azores and
the United States.
Peddler—"Any umbrella rings, pen-
cils, teapot spouts, studs, shoelacss,
brushes or needles?" Lady—"Go away
or I'll call the police," Peddler—
"'Ere you are, lady, whistles, six-
pence each."—Passing Show.
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Teacher --Torah ny, if you had fifty
cents, and you lent your father thirty
cents, and you then lent your brother
twenty cents, how many cents would
you have? Tommy—I wouldn't have
any sense.
bursting of
bombs, clicking of camera and the
flare of flashlights were the noise fea-
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 $25,000,000 pro-
ject which is the first vehicular tun-
nel
unnel to connect two nations.
Spirit 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 burden of 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 nations, 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 pressed 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 was the signal for prolonged
cheeriug by the immense crowds, and
ready was defeated and in full retreats
It ought to be possible, theBritish surd
geon urged, to develop an entirely dial
ferent type of medical science, dealr�
ing with normal people and with the
fight against disease before the first
engagement has gone in favor of the
eneiny instead of. afterward. To'
create the detailed knowledge of nor-'
mal and "near-normal" human beings
.necessary for such a science, Lord
Monynihan advocated the establish -
hent in medical colleges of professor-
ships of normal human physiology;
giving these professors and their as-;
sistants access not only to hospital,
sick paitents and to sick people gen-
erally but .to groups of normal people
in ordinary walksof life, and especial.
ly to people who feel themselves just
beginning to fall sick,
Canadian History Depicted Canal Record Is
In Royal Christmas Cards
A delicate compliment has been paid
to Cant da by the Prince of Wales in -
his choice of a Christmas greeting
card, for it comprises 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 four minutes from her own time, and
your greater good." negotiated the passage from Thorold
The King's Card, also a painting by to the end of the breakwater in Lake
Bernard Gribble, depicts "The Sailing Ontario in three hours and six ,nine
aerial bombs crashed overhead and
bands blare(' forth.
"The Fieetway"
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,
and Michael J. Walsh of Windsor, for-
nierly 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.
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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.
A visitor from the city one day
asked a farmer which he did with
suck an enormous peach crop. The
farmer replied:
"Well, we eat what we can,. and
what we can't we can."
"We do the same thing," replied
the visitor. "We sell what we can
sell, and what we can't sell we can-
cel."
Astronomers to Watch Heavens
To Determine Date of Meteor Showers
Washington.—Astronomers through-
out the country, with the assistance of
a large grouts of amateur observers,
will soon be watching the night sky
for shooting stars, hoping to learn
whether we may expect a huge meteor
Shower in November, 1933 or 1934.
Snell showers occurred in 1799, 1833
nathe
skywars
said
to
when ti.
,l 1866,w
1 been covered with shooting stars,
or ;acteors, whioh looked like the in-
numerdh1e rib of a gigantic umbrella.
Another was expectP,d in 1899, but
failed to materialize for reasons that
had not been foreseen.
There may be, however, another
brilliant display within the next few
years. If so, the meteors should be
more numerous than they have been
for a lona! time. The nights of Nov.
14 and 16 are the dates for the display
of ine'teors whioh astronomers and in- 7aro Agile, said to be 156 years
d
er
terested amateurs will sou tt t to deter -
York elty, Indian philosopher, what
mine the date of the shower of Shoot-
ing Stars, of girls profit Roseland ballroom gather
MIXED FISH
You can eke out left -over fish to
make an excellent supper 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
Canadian newsprint exports reach
all quarters of the civilized world.
Sleeping comPartmi1ts, fitted with
proper bedsteads, running hot and
cold water, steam radiators, folding
trouser -bangers, and a temperature re-
gulator, are now ruuning on one night
express between London and Aber-
deen.
Lowered 3
0
rs ,
St. Catharines — The package,
freighter Georgian, under the com-
mand of Captaiu D. Hudson, continu-
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
utpfficially opened tor navigation at
Port Weiler, she was also the first
boat to pass through the twin flight
locks at Thorold, and now she has
set a new record when she clipped
of the royal London from Deptford.
Built by the Lord ayor, Alderman and
Companies of the City of London in
1666 she was said by Pepys to be the
"best ship in the world." The motto
on the greeting page is "The Heavens
give safety to; your purposes." Her
Built by the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and
a garden scene, being a painting by
Flora Pilkington entitled "The Frag-
rance of the Flowers," and in addition
to an appropriate quotation by Alan
Estmexe it bears the motto "Fair days
to you and may each glad tomorrow
Bring Happiness to you." The coach-
ing picture of the Duke and Duchess
of York is entitled "The Good Old
Days" and was painted by Gilbert
Wright. It carries a quotation from
Charles 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.
Iris Lad been sitting with an ab-
sorbed look on her face, gazing at
her father. "Why did you harry
mother; dad?" she suddenlysaid.
"Because I was a fool, I suppose,"
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 -Year -Old Turk Peers Into the Future
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utes.
Seaweed May Yield
High -Grade Papei
One of the big problems of the day
is to find new sources for the supply
of paper. Most of it is made from
wood, but we are using up the world's
timber faster than nature can grog
it for us.
From Russia comes news of a dis
covery which may revolutionize the
paper -making industry. An engineer
named Velijeff was struck some time
ago with the idea that seaweed prob.
ably contained the essential sub
stances for making paper. Now he
has evolved a process which allow:
this to be done on a large scale •at a
remarkably low cost. A factory near.
ing. completion in the neighborhood of
great sea lakes in Sibera 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 half an hour. Sixteen dif-
ferent kinds of paper, as well as card-
board and glue; have already been
obtained from seaweed, and the chief
waste product is a fireproof substance
that can be manufactured into tiles.1
The Possibilities of Tubes
While driving along M-65 recently I
spied an 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 I gave a thorough
washing. When dry I made a hand-,
bag from it by cutting two pieces
eight inches by five inches. The bot'
tom was cut into fringe, the sides
picked and laced up. To finish it up I
worked a beaded design on the front..
Bands were cut from the tube, cow,
ered with ribbon, and the addition of
organdy flowers made them into fancy
garters—A Reader.
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 bean
used successfully in the construction
of both concrete and asphalt roads.
If the use of cotton for road -making
spreads, a great deal of cloth can be
used in this way. Road engineers are
always on the look cut far 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 ha, fallen recently.
au
the
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 being 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 Admi'•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 Vainly, placed in
service early this year.
Goiter Preventive Found
In Kentucky Limestone
Lopuisville.—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 Kentucky 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."
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 spaces all around,
catching edges together, thou make a
• shell with picot in middle. I have no
directions for this, made it up myself.
It is heavy enough without t lining
and so easily washed. I also crochet
Iwash cloths, making two pink, blue
or yellow stripes to three of white,
with the colored edge. They are
pretty, too.
4,....--s—
BORAX
'BORAX STARCH
If you add a 'pinch of borate to the
water in which. you rinse your linen
learns from Princess Mahletka, New or batiste collars and stiffs, they Will
0 id
future ltof s for14,04
fPNpristine ()Appose when iron -
around to ''sten iitw 0. 4
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Canadian Office in Cairo
A new Canadian Government Trade
Commissioner's office is to bo opened
at Cairo, Egypt. The territory for
ibis 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 al
Cairo, Canada will have 34 trade com-
missioners in different parts of the
world and a commercial agent at'
Sydney, Australia.
Prince Receives
Boyd and Connor
London -- Capt. Errol Boyd and
Lieut. Harry 1', Connor, Canadian
trans-Atlantic filers, were received by,
the Prince of Wales apt y'ork House
on Nov. 6th.
"The prince gave us a inarvellous
little time," Captain Boyd said. "We
were with him talking .probably far
forty minutes, Mostly he discussed
aviation. Ile seemed to know a great
deal about flying. He mentioned the
German DO -X and seemed very inter,
estedin tate possibilities of future dei
veloprnelit along this line.*