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Port Perry Star, 11 Sep 1930, p. 6

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Fliers Conqu a Complete 4,100-Mile Trip in 37 Hours and 18); Minutes. Valley Stream, L.I.--Captain Dieu- donne Coste and his co-pilot, Maurice Bellonte, completed the first direct flight from Paris to New York on Sept. 2nd when they landed at Curtiss Airport at 7.12% p.m., after a.journcy of 37 hours 18 minutes and 30 seconds. They covered a distance of 6,500 kilo- metres, or about 4,100 miles. Their achievement marked the first uninterrupted crossing from Europe to the United States metropolis, What others have tried to do and failed, Captain Coste and M. Béilonte accom- plished. In doing so they triumphed magnificently vver the dangers which sent Nungesser and Coli, the first two Frenchmen to try the westward trip, to their doom. t CROWD GREETS VISITORS. Ten thousand throats gelled a wild greeting to the two French masters of the air as their plane, the scarlet Question Mark, beariug upon her sides the written record of a dozen Odysseys of the sky, came down smoothly and gracefully on the east side of *he field and taxied rapidly toward the hangars on the west side. Here among the first to. greet Captain Coste and M. Bellonte was Colonel Charles A. Lind- bergh, whose visit to Paris had now been returned. "It's a great flight," was the en- thusiastic comment of Colonel Lind- bergh after he had finally managed+ with .the assistance of policemen to make his way toward the French air- men, following their rescu- from the cheering, weltering crowds, whose en- thusiasm exceeded all bounds. Never before in the history of aviation in this country, according to veterans of the science, have any flying men ve- ceived the reception accorded to Cap- tain Coste and his companion. PARIS"HEARS NEWS. Paris.--The greatest celebration since the Armistice was staged by Paris as loudspeakers bellowed the announcement to anxious multitudes that Captain Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte had conquered the treacherous Atlandc on September 2nd, completing the hazardous west- ward crossing from Paris to New York. The explosion of delight was almost unprecedented as the pent-up enthu- siasmfi restrained for hours in fear that the fliers might meet the fate of Nungeseer and Coli three years ago, vanished with he official word that victory had been achieved. Then the loud speakers opened up with the voice of an announcer at Cur- tiss Field, and the crowds became simply delirious as the radio man de- scribed the landing of France's great- est aviator. The reception was clear and the words came through almost as well as if the Parisians had been standing on the landing field itself. All France was thrilled, all France was proud, all France was thankful, The news was sped quickly to all parts of the Republic and the rejoicing there was similar to that in Paris, although less in volume. Through it all the people offered prayers of thanks that the two brave airmen had not suffered the fate of Nungesser and Coli. me msn, BULGARIAN VALLEY OF ROSES HAS BUMPER FLOWER CROP Karlovo, Bulgaria--The harvest of roses here has been a bumper one. Distillers where the famous attar of roses is made are hard at work, and the district is filled with the perfume of the blossoms. Villages are empty, for men, women and children are gathering the flowers. From dawn to sundown country roads s are alive with the great wagons drawn by robust horses, little donkey carts driven by women and handcarts push. ed by children--all on their way to distilleries. ~ Nearly 150 villages in the Valley of Roses, as well as a few small cities, are dependent on the rose harvest. Nearly two tons of rose blossoms ane needed tc yield a pound of essence of roses. This year the official esti- mates are that the Valley of Roses will produce nearly 7,000 tons of flowers. gy Ocean Greyhounds Have Thrilling Race Brooklyn, ....Y.~--A race at sea be- tween two of the fleetest liners afloat --the Europa and the Mauretania-- was described on Thursday, August 28th, by passengers. The Mauretania left Cherbourg on August 16th just 20 minutes before the North German Lloyd vessel departed from the same port. Six hours later the ships were beam to beam. Passengers on both thronged the decks to witness the race through the night. By Sunday the Europa, with a speed of 26% knots, left the Mauretania behind. w-------- ~ , CHINESE WOMEN ARE y GAINING FREEDOM er Week-End Eleven Die -- Auto Crashes Cause Main Fatalities. Eleven Ontario people were killed in accidents over the weekend and four were seriously injured. Automobile collisions and upsets were responsible for eight deaths and a farm tractor crushed the life out of another. A Toronto hoy drowned at Lake Simcoe, and a Pakenham young man drowned in the river at that place. The list of dead and seriously in- jured follows: Dead i Mable Bremner, 19, Woodstock, killed near London in auto crash, Mrs. B, J. Sutton, widow, London, killed near Lobo Village in auto crash. Milton Miller, 52, Norfolk County Councillor, crushed by tractor. James McLaughlin, butcher, Wasaga Beach, killed when auto hit log. Jean Marie Marceau, 22, North Bay, died from injuries received in auto crash. Mr, and Mrs. Alex. Labute of Te- cumseth, 63 and 56 years of age, re- spectively, instantly killed in motor collision near Windsor. George McNab, 23, drowned while bathing. Eleanor Pacy, 9, of 30 Grant Street, Toronto, struck by car on Wardell Street. Leonard Farrell, 9 months old, of 1365 Bathurst Street, Toronto, in mo- tor accident near Oshawa. Bryce Lowery, 17, of 1847 Dufferin Street, Toronto, drowned at Lake Simcoe. Pakenham, Seriously Injured Miss Mamie Harrison, London, skull fractured in auto crash. Bremner Harrison, London, serious head injuries. 7 John Dunn, Niagara Falls, spine pos- sibly fractured in auto crash near Dun- ville, « Jeffrey Godin, North Bay, fractured spine from auto crash. -- Reverse Autoists Reach New York Saw Everything Backward for 42 Days --Motor Never Stopped Running. after backing all the way o Cali- fornia and backing back again. For 42 days they have seen everything backwards, and they nearly backed into pier Z, instead of pier A., where their friends were to welcome them on September Tth. Forty-two days ago the two youths, who come from St. Louis, where other non-stops flights of reality and imag- ination have been incubated, left the Battery in a flivver which had but one gear--reverse, Their dashboard was equipped with a wide-vision rear mir- ror, and their bright lights were drap- ed from the after-deck of the vehicle. Otherwise their equipment was stand- ard. They propused to drive the ma- chine backwardc all the way to Cali- fornia and return. An. obliging oil company bet them the cost of gas and oil they couldnt do it. But they did. They backed their way over the Lincoln highway to Chicago, out through the wide open spaces of Kan- sas, New Mexico and Arizona, and up the back door of the Los Angeles City Hall. Their motor nevar stopped running, and untii they reached New Mexico, where they were stopped by washouts, their backward progress was never stopped. They "ok turns driving and slezping, and ate from a well-stocked commissary department they carried with them. Their speed was never more than 11 miles an hour, and for the distance averaged about six miles. They used about 1,000 gallons of gas. If they had not been rurning in reverse, which is geared at a 5 to 1 ratio over the forward, they might have travel. ed 85,000 miles with the same motor effort, but they wouldn't have seen so much of the scenery. a ------ PRINCE OF WALES' . PRIVATE HOLIDAY London.--The Prince of Wales has declined to vndertake any public en- gagements until the end of September, He feels that he needs a completely private holiday. The Prince will spend much of his time at his residence, Fort Belvedere, Sunningdale, Berkshire, where he will play golf and take flights in his Puss Moth aeroplane. The Prince wishes to convert the grounds of Fort Belvedere into a typ- ically English garden, and it is ex- pected that he will devote much of his time to this. The King and Queen go to Balmoral towards the end of this month, and the. Prince will probably visit them there. roof CAMPING RECORDS BROKEN BY BRITISH BOY SCOUTS Decreased Attendance Is Not 80 For By midable As | Betty Nuthall, English tennis star, whose recent victory over Mrs. L. A. Harper at Forest Hill, L.I, took the women's title abroad since 1918. She defeated 'Mrs, Harper 6-1, 6-4. for the first time Massed around a roped-off square near the Main Bandstand some fifteen thousand citizens witnessed the im- pressive closing formalities, watched the great Union Jack flutter down from the giant flagpole, heard Presi-; dent Sam Harris declare that this year's Exhibition had been a magniti- cent gesture showing the basie sound. ness of 'Canadian prosperity, and then finally joined their voices in the sing- ing of "Auld Lang Syne" and the Na- tional Anthem. C.N.E. ATTENDANCE First Week. 1930 1929 Friday ...... 71,000 80,000 Saturday .... 85,000 140,000 90,000 Wednesday .. 167,000 133;000 Thursday .... 109,000 137,000 Second Week. Friday ...... 89,000 150,000 Fewer Settlers Come to Canada Immigration Figures for Four Months Register Decline Ottawa --Immigration to Canada for the four months endifig July 81, 1930, showed a distinct falling off compared with the same period of 1929, accord- ing to figures issued recently by the Department of Immigration and Co- lonization. This year 58,278 immi- grants entered the country and In the same period last year there were 94, 214. The total decrease was 38 per cent. Immigration from the British Isles showed the greatest falling off, al- though there were sharp declines in the United States slight drop in volume. During the other countries compared with 20,690. | Canadians returning from the United States during the period totalled 13, 090. | ------t | NEW BRUNSWICK OPENS | REFUGE OF 59 SQ. M. Montreal -- Establishment of the Bantalor game refuge, consisting of fifty-nine sfnare miles in York County, N.B,, has been announced. The order setting apart the territory in the parishes of Stanley and St. Mary's is signed by Charles D. Rich- ards, Minister of Lands and Mines of New Brunswick, and sets forth that "no person has the right to hunt or trap or disturb-game, fur-bearing ani- mals or birds found within the limits of this game refuge, or travel upon it with either a gun or dog at any time," The penalty for violation is a fine of $300 or six months' imprisonment. Opening of the new refuge makes a total of about seven hundred square miles of territory set aside in New Brunswick as game sanctuaries, where game and fur-bearing animals may breed and restock the hunting grounds. Mr. Richards pointed out that the policy of extending these sanctuaries had the indorsement of the New Brunswick Fish and Ganve Protective Association and other con- servative societies. --ee JUST WHAT IS A FARM? Just what is a farm? For census purposes a farm is a patch of land farmed by one person, either by his own labor or with the assistance of members of his household or hired em- ployees. When a landowner has one or more tenants, renters, croppers or managers the land operated by each 1s considered a "farm." ' Any tract of land of less than three acres used for agricultural purposes, which produced products to the value of $250 in the preceding calendar year, is classed as a "farm." -- ae Selt-discipline is necessary when dis- sension arises in thie life of married Ontario Visited. by Nearly 1,500,000 "Cars Up to July 1. American automobiles to the num- ber of 1,474,610 entered Ontario for touring purposes during the first six months of this year, and the amount $21,455,000 Is Spent . By Motor Tourists | of their occupants' expenditures while here is estimated by C. O, Hele, Direc-' tor of Publicity for the Ontario Gov- ernment, at $21,456,000. Of these tourist cars, 1,287,676 were admitted to the Province for a period' ! not exceeding 24 hours; 186,730 for a, : period not exceeding 60 days; and 304! came in for tours ranging between 2 and 6 months. Windsor, as usual, was the biggest the Movement of Dongen European | port of entry, with 488,701 cars of the and other races, 8 Movemen} Tom first class, 58,937 of the second class, showed only '&|,,4 95 of the third. Bridgeburg was with 395,606 one-day visit period under review there were 19,317, cars, 48.823 of the second type, and New York.--Jim Hargis ard Char- from the British Isles in 1930 com- 80 of the two-month-sta: : : : 7 -stay description. lie Greighton are back in New York pared with 41,064 in 1929; 12,076 from Niagara Falls was third, with 270,466, the United States compared with 14,-| 44,393 and 21 cars, respectively, for 773; 11,109 from Northern Europe | y the three classes; and Walkerville was compared with 17,797 and 15,772 from} fourth, with 86,859, 8,671 and 70 cars, second, respectively. 916 cars all told with 13,746. ameristar DOES IT EVER RAIN ANGLEWORMS? Naturalists do not believe that | angleworms are ever actually rained down from the clouds. ance of angleworms in unusual places after a rain can generally be explained It is admitted how- ever, that in some cases the presence of worms in certain places after a rain is difficult to explain. or not whirlwinds and tornadoes some- times scoop up the contents of a pond or other body of water and scatter them over the earth at a great dis- tance is a disputed question. by other means. above sea level. Two other prominent ports of entry were Sarnia, with 30, and Fort Francis, "r am Scotch-Irish or Irish-Scotch, dependftig upon what company I am in."--Sir Thomas Lipton. Mammoth Cave Is Discovered | On Nevada Side of Death Valley The appear- Whether Wednesday .. 96,000 103,000 Thursday .... 98,000 . 118,000 _~ Third Week. i Friday ...... 84,000 104,000 Saturday .... 156,000 193,000 Total for year 1,687,000 1,974,000 Decrease on year--287,000. Son and Heir Born To Belgian Prince Crown Princess Astrid Now Mother of Prince and Princess. Brussels, Belgium--Crowa Princess | bo Astrid of Belgium gave birth to a son on Sept. 7th. As her first child was a girl, the little boy becomes heir to the Belgian throne in the direct male line, The baby was born at Stuyvenberg Castle, which has been fenced uff from public curiosity by barbed wire, in order to assure the maximum of quiet for Princess Astrid. The baby Prince weighs nearly nine pounds. He was baptized with the name Baudouin Albert Axel Marie Gustave. News of the birth was announced to the populace by a salute of 101 guns and aroused great joy. Great crowds gathered outside Stuvenberg Castle to cheer Leopold, his wife and new son. ee a em WHEN MASTODON LIVED Naturalists have always supposed that the American mastodon has been extinct for at least 50,000 years. Dr. W. B. Scott, professor of geology at Princeton University, told the Na- tional Academy of Science at Wash- ington that the elephantlike animal may have lived in the state of New, York only a few hundred years be- fore the time of Columbus. He ar- rives at this conclusion from fossils in northeastern North America and the fact that a complete skeleton of a mastodon found near Quito, Ecuador, supplied convincing proof that the ani- mal had been killed by Indians not later than the fourth century A.D. Tonopah, Nev.--A new mammoth cave has been found by four men who dared the stifiing heat and humid, stale air to descend into hitherto un- penetrated depths of a cleft of rocks on the fringe of Death Valley. Letson 'Balliet, consulting engineer of Tonopah, and his associates climb- ed down several hundred feet with the aid of a 500-foot rope. found, Masses of them were covered with needleltke crystals, almost like exaggerated frost patterns. said he believed they were formed under water. Balliet thinks the upper part of the cave once was the floor of a sea. He said indications that the earth had lifted were shown by limestone strata, eight to twenty feet thick, piled like , but standing at angles, due Balliet's study of the formations con- presumably to earth upthrust. vinced him that the cave extends to| One area water level of Death Valley, which forest covered with white, frostlike would make the place about a mile needles. deep, since it begins at the end of an tites, which form in hollow gourd and abandoned mining tunnel 4,200 feet other rounded shapes. timb a subter The tunnel leading The canyon is in Grapevine Moun- Balllet Here also were bulb stalac- to the cave The explorers found heat of 120 to mouth starts on the sheer walls of 130 degrees at the point where their| Titus Canyon, several bundred feet descent began. : They sald the heat] above the canyon floor. increased until it became difficult to i ver 1 to 6 Tr n be Ey above alive p PROVISION PRICES ! Toronto wholesale dealers are quot ing the following prices to the trade: moked neats--Hams, med., 28 to] 36¢c 48 to 52¢; D; will loins, 40c; a ; cooked to : rolls, 34c; breakfast bacon, 26 to backs, peasmealed, 34c; do, smoked, ihe gh ight rolls, ; weight rol % tie 15 ils 15% a ao o ire % ' ; print Tierces, 12%c; tubs, 18 pals : Jp as shortening--Tierces, a ry ng--"' 16c! tubs, 16%¢; pails, 16e. ? GRAIN QUOTATIONS Grain dealers on the Toronto Board = of Trade 3k making the following quotations for car % wheat--No. 1 Northern, 90%c; No. 2 do, 88%c: No. 8 doy 85%c; No, 4 feed, 82%¢c; Nu. b, TT%c; No. 6, 63%c; feed, 51%c (c.i.f. Goder- ich and ba rts). Man. No. 1 feed, 38%e; No. i 2 do, 35%¢c. : Argeutine corn, 83¢, c.if. Port Col- rne. Millfeed, del, Montreal freights, bags included--Bran, per ton, $27.25; shorts, per ton, $28.25; middlings, 33.25. 3 Ontario grain--Wheat, 77 to T9¢; barley, 40 to 4dc; oats, 30 to 3lc; buckwheat, nom'nal. 'HAY AND STRAW PRICES Wholesale denjets in hay Bad are quoting shippers ollowi; es for carload lots, delivered on track, Toronto: t No. 2 timothy, $14; No. 3 timothy, $12 to $13; wheat straw, $10; oat straw, $10. LIVESTOCK PRICES en Heavy beef steers, $5.50 to $6.75; ose stoorss choice, $7 to $7.50; do, fair to good, $5.50 to $6.50; do, com., $3 to $5; butch.r heifers, choice, $7 to $7.50; do, fair to good, $6.50 to $7; do, com., $56.50 to $6.25: butcher cows, good to choice, $4.75 to $6.26; do, med., $3 to $4.50; canners and cutters, $1.50 to $2.50; butcher bulls, good to choice, $4.25 to $5; do, bologna, $3 to $3.50; baby beef. $9 to $11.50; feeders, good, $5.50 to $6; stockers, $4.50 to $5; calves, good to choice, $10 to $11; do, med, $8 to $9.50; do, com., $5 to $6; do, grassers, $2.50 'to $4.50; milk- ers, $50 to $95; springers, $80 to $100; lambs, choice, $9; ' uck lambs, $6.50 to $7; sheep, $3 to $4.50: hcgs, bacon, w.o.c., $12; do, selects, $1 per hog pre- mium; do, butchers, 75¢ per hog dis- count; do, trucked i, 26c cwt. under w.0.c. Br Samm Mushroom Theory Exploded at C.N.E. Way To. Distinguish Poison Varieties Shown. Toronto,--W. 8. O'ell, mycologist of of Dominion department of agricul- ture, explodes the old familiar theory that any mushroom which peels easily is safe to eat. As a matter of fact, he points out, the poisonous classes peel more readily than the edible. In the mushroom display of the Fed- eral division of botany, at the Can- adian National Exhibition, 46 varle- ties of edible mushrooms are shown, There is a very simple and safe rule for. distingaishi o pol from the edible mushroom, Mr. O'Dell 'ob- serves. The two poisonous classes are Angel or Death Cup. These can be easily distinguished by the white gills op of tho em an the Hoga 8 cup at the base of the plant. In the Greyhound of the Pacific with white spots people and the first love is worn off.-- | breathe. § tains, twenty-two miles from Beatty, | 0F3n8e cup covered: v Mrs, Franklin D. Rooseveit, Rare beauties fn stalactites were Nev, on the California side of the line, |18 an added danger signal. " m-- the Fly Amaita and the Destroying case of the Fly Amanita, a bright] & whole town. 'The ususl system the front, and the whole lorry can be jacked down to the ground in a few minutes for loading and unloading, In tlese days of giant structures and machines, nothing ratains its su- premacy for long. The monsters of the smoked | past, such as Big Ben, London's fam- ous clock, and the Eiffel Tower, un- 'rivalled for 'years, mow aave to give place to newer and greater marvels, A minute hand 356 feet long was, not long ago, hoisted up to the face 90| of a clock in Jersey City, and from then on Big Ben ceased to be the big- gest clock in the world. The new 'monster is 50 feet across, and 'the moving parts weigh four tons. Neo less than 220 electric light bulbs are used to illumine the hands of the clock, which are made of seven-ply wood, ra- "with 'structural steck - The great locks of the 'Panama Canal were expected to be unrivalled for years, but the building of bigger ships has led to the dwarfing of even these. At Ymuiden, in the Nether- lands, a lock has been opened 1,312 feet long, 164 feet wide, and 51 feet deep. This is over 300 'eet longer than the locks of the Panama Canal, besides being wider and deéper! In the construction of this lock innumerable difficulties were encountered. The ground was so soft that 15,000 rein. forced concrete piles had to be driven te stiffer the foundations. The new Cunarder, the keel of which is being laid now, will be over 1,000 feet long. The actual length is not yet announced, but in all probabil jty it would be too much for the locks of the Panama Canal. Itswill be the biggest ship afloat, developing 200,000 h.p., which is 80,000 more than the Bremen. And it is confidently expect. ed that, three years from now, this ship will win back the "blue riband" of the Atlantic that the Bremen re- cently captured from the Mauretania The Suez Canal, fortunately, has no locks, but its width was severely tested when the Singapore floating dock was being towed from the Tyne to its destination, The dock is 172 feet wide and 855 feet long, and tow- ered above the canal like a Colossus, It was towed by ten tugs, and there was only five yards clearance between the sides of the canal and the dock-- not much when you are dealing with 80 enormous a "craft." Furthermore, all the buoys and dredgers had to be removed from the waterway while the dock passed through, and the canal actually had to be widened. at Kantara to allow ship- ping to pass. The biggest shovel ever invented has just been installed at Montana, in the United States, It is electrically driven, and 'can 'be operated by ome man, but it excavates fifteen' tons at a bite'and can deposit it anywhere up to 300 feet away and 120 feet high. In Montana the coal deposits occur on the surface of the ground, and this machine is used for "stripping" them. |.It can dig and load 5,000 tons of coal in a ten-hour day. \ The biggest 'aeroplane in existence is the Dornier "DO X," which, with 169 persons on board, rose from. the surface of Lake Geneva and remained in the air for nearly an hour. This enormous machine measures 150 feet Loth in length and wingspread, and has twelve 526 h.p. engines mounted in pairs above her wings. This is a far cry from the carly plane in which 'Lt.-Col. J. T. C. Moore-Brabazon, M.C. made his first flight in 1908, only twenty-two years age This is indeed an age for the mon- ster creations of scieuce. Great power stations have been built that will pro. $25 iniaturs flashes op lightuing 9 t long, with electrical pressures over a million volts. Magnets are made that wil! lift sunken ships, see- tion 'by section, from a depth of fifty fathoms. And Diesel engines have been installed -in locomotives to pull | trains of 1,000 tons. . Finally, now comes word from Ger- soun 'control an army grt TE .

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