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Port Perry Star, 10 Sep 1931, p. 6

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Raynor, aged 12, was instantly killed; : nk Stanley Powell, pupil of ak on the rail- | here trains mowed down by trespassers within a few 5,0f each other in two differ-| tions of the city. One, Reginald the Ontario School for the Deaf at Belleville, lies in the hospital serioys- injured. At the same time in the ris hospital, two more youthful law breakers are recovering from injuries suffered in the same manner. Shortly "after 12 o'clock Thursday, Powell was hit by a freight train while walking along the C.N.R. tracks near St. Paul's avenue, and was bad- ly gashed and suffered internal in- Juries. A few minutes later Raynor, with companion, was walking on the T. H. and B, tracks in West Brantford. His chums elected to cut to the side of the tracks to let a gasoline-electric car go by. Raynor felt he could make the level-crossing but failed, being almost instantly killed by the car, which car- ried him 75 yards down the track to- wards Winnett Street before Engineer William Preeth of Hamilton could stop the heavy vehicle. Both accidents followed the apoeh r- ance of seven youths in police court, arrested by detective Mullen, who stated that he was taking stringent acdon in protection for the youths, since there were now. two youths in Paris General Hospital saverdly hurt while trespassing. The s2ven were caught at Paris where they were try- ing to hop freight trains. The seven pleaded guilty to tresyass and were fined $10 and costs or 15 5 days in jail, | Ra =3 Alone F or Schneider Cup France and Italy Withdraw-- Request for. 6 Months Posinonement Refused London.--Great Britain will race against herself for the Schneider Cup Sept. 12. The Royal Aero Club learned from France and Italy that reasons sum-' med up as bad weather, bad luck and! loss of machines, they would be un-: able to compete in the famous air race unless it could be Postponed for six months. The club replied that the rules did not permit such postpone- ment. The race, therefore, as an in- ternational event, is off, It was learned at the same time, however, that British pilots will con- duct a "flyover" by racing against ne another in the hope of bettering the speed record for the race, which now stands at 328.63 miles per hour, It was assumed that Great Britain will keep the trophy, since she already had won it two years in succession, It was also regarded as probable that this year's race might be the 'ast of the series. In a recent statement 'issued by the Royal Aero Club said that an at- tent t would be made to lower the existing world speed record of 857.7 miles an hour. rere ein Bumper Tobacco Crop In Essex and Kent. Chatham, Onty--Tobacco cutting throughout the entire growing arca | from the Essex border to Delhi is gen- | eral, according to fieldmen, who re- port there is an indication of a bump- er crop of Burley type in Kent and Essex. They also report an enormous yield of the flue-cured in the eastern countizs. They estimated that 7,900 acres of land in Kent are under culti- vation in Burley tobacco, and that 21,- . 000 acres: of tobacco or flue cure is|® being harvested in the Delhi district. Four Lose Lives | "In British Mine Eight Others Seriously Injured by Explosion in War- wickshire Astley, Warwickshire, Eng.--Piti- ful scenes were witnessed at Newdi- gate pithead recently when the bodics of four married men, killed in an underground explosion, were brought to the surface. A violent thunderstorm, raging at She tinge, illuminated the scene as the re brought to the pit ca- Manse a ste ta he vietims were: H the Square, Attlebor- ough; J. Miles, Wynfield Road, Nun- Me x Casey, Cross Keys, Exhall; | Queen Street, Astley. Eight others were seriously injured. , ee wo 1 ny ped. mile ud » halt from ils mouth of | when, the words , "There was a vivid ET on hu Japon twa eon'd 'recently. Took 72 House! Gover Some 4,400 Miles--Reaches Pernambuco Pernambuco, Brazil.--The German dirigible Grat Zeppelin completed its second flight to Brazil on Sept. 1, ar- riving at this northeast coastal city at 6.18 p.m, after a non-stop trip of some 4,400 miles from Friedrich- shafen, The dirigible, commanded by Dr. Hugo Eckener and carrying 13 passen- gers at $1,500 each, soared over the Brazilian coast at the énd of a 1,600- miles flight across the South Atlantic Ocean, where winds retarded its pro- gress, The ship required 72 hours for the flight, which began on the shores of Lake Constance. The average speed was slightly more than 60 miles an hour, due chiefly to adverse conditions as the dirigible approached South America. It was the first non-stop flight the Graft Zeppelin had made from Friedrichshafen to Brazil, having halted in Spain on the previous jour- ney. "We had a magnificent trip," Dr. Eckener reported. "The only incle- ment weather encountered was near the Islands of Fernando Noronha, about 125 miles off the Brazilian coast, where we were held back by strong headwinds" timed Analyze Wheat For China Market Millions of Bushels Could be Used in National Dishes, Claim Montre:! --Canada's surplus wheat in elevators throughout the Dominion would save the lives of thousands of Chinese now starving in the areas { flooded by the Yangtze River and pos- sibly be the means of furnishing a | future outlet for Canadian wheat that "would prove of great benefit to this country, Wong Han, prominent mem- ber of the local Chinese calony, siated All that was left of P. H. Aguire's's saw mills, which everatol for past 30 years, after disastrous blaze sweep Osnabrick Centre, recently. pei tame Hall Caine Passes |Chinese River At Boyhood Home Continues to Rise Isle of Man Mourns the Death | Yangtse Menaces Nanking, of Famous Novelist 4,000 Dead Only Fifty Douglas, Isle" of Man--Sir Hall Miles Away . Caine, noted novelist, passed on Sept. Shanghis. Great floods broke 1st, at his home, Greeba Castle. through the Yangtse River dykes this Sir Hall Caine came from Runcorn | wel threatening inundation of Naa- Cheshire, at an early age to live on King, China's capital, after having the Isle of Man. Later he was sent caused the deaths of approximately to Liverpool to be trained as an archi: 350,000 Chinese recently and leaving tect. He mever practiced that profes. many millions facing starvation. sion, however, but turned to journal istic work. He became an editorial writer on the staff of the Liverpool Mercury. After six years he went to London on the invitation of Mr. D. G. Rossetti, the poet-painter, and remain- ed as his secretary and companion un- til Mr. Rossetti passed on. Moving down from the sister cities, Hankow, Wuchang and Hanyang, where more than a quarter million perished, the flood entered 'Wuhu, 50 miles' up river from Nanking. four thousand were reported dead at Wu- ih and 200,000 destitute and home- He thought that there was an excal- lent market for the hard wheat of Canada In his homeland. "The Chl: nese," he explained, "will never eat bread to any great extent, as it is a food absolutely foreign to them and would require cooking equipment not found in the average Chinese home, Canadian wheat, however,' he went on, "could be used freely in the pre- paration of Chinese dishes, such as the making of dumplings and noodles, and its use for this purpose would take millions of bushels of Canadian wheat yearly." DS. Big Loser P. Alguire, "one of the big losers in destructive fire to the in the Osnabruck Centre H. gost which razed his sawmill ground (near Cornwall, Ont.) blaze. <> 40-Mile Rate Compulsory On Chicago Highway Indianapolis.--Forty miles an hour, once considered highly dangerous, now is called the safest minimum automo- bile spced on the Dunes Highway, across northern Indiana to Chicago. State police have been instructed to see that a speed of at least forty miles an hour is maintained on that mueh- traveled road éach week end, to avoid traffic jams and collisions. Under the new plan, police believe the maximum safety will result, for no driver will be permitted to cut in and out of trafic lanes, The order to keep cars moving rap- idly was made by Groverf C. Garrott, Indiana police chief. It is the first attempt to fix rural minimum speed limits in the Mid-West. The closest comparison to the experiment, Chief Garrott said, is the regulation of traf- fic through the Holland Tunnel, in New York. ------ these Statue of Thomas Hardy Marks World's Exteom A bronze statue of Thomas Hardy To ag veiled at Dorchester re] cent James Barrie. who was an ol yd of Hardy, This is a me- morial which has been publicly sub- Ee les, The first writings of Sir Hall to at- Three. dykes gave way near Nan- tract attention were "Sonnets of Three king. Its western suburbs were flood-| © Centuries" and "Recollections of Ros-| oq and thousands took refuge within sett," both published in 1883. For], wajied city of 400,000 inhabitants. nearly 50 years thereafter 'he pro | More than 1,000 refugees encamped duced novels and plays, many of the, the walls as the Yangtse rose and latter being dramatized versidns of ! ! efforts were 'made to strengthen | the his books. One of his early successes ' dykes. was "The Deemster,' a story of early The main floods were in two arzas life on the Isle of Man. "The Manx- | --along the Yangise River and the man," a development 'ot the Bame Grand Canal, 40 miles northeast of theme, was even more popular. These Nanking. At least 100,000 persons and a few others firmly established his were believed to have died in the past reputation and laid the foundation for 10 days as the canal overflowed, form- his fortune. He acquired Greeba Cas- ing a great lake which swallowed sey- tle, one of the finest residences on the eral villages and flooded large cities. Isle of Man, and for some years sat Taichow and Tungtai were under in the House of Keys, the Manx par. | Sdveral feet of water. Portions of lament, ! Hinghwa were covered 20 feet deep Others of sir Hall's better known, ad it formed the centre of a 'lake works include "The Christian," "The radiating 86 miles. Countless people Eternal City," "The Prodigal Son,' were believed to have perished in the "The Woman Thou Gavest Me," "The surrounding country as the waters Bondsman," "The Scapegoat," "The closéd over trees and house tops to White Prophet" and "The Master of | hich they had clung. Men." He wrote "Darby and Joan" iginal film story, and a num- BE AR a Hudson Bay Fort May Have Replica ber of the books mentioned were shown on the screen in Great Britain | | Edmonton, Alta.--Canstruction of a replica of the famous old Hudson's and the United States. ---- iin: 1 000 Bay Company fort in Edmonton and Ford to Give 50 jason changes in downtown Work This Month treets which have suffered through Detroit.--The Ford Motor Compauy, faulty surveys lin the past will be which on August'l sharply curtailed among matters considered at a meet: its manufacturing force, an- ing of the Edmonton Town Planuing nounced that between 15,000 and 26,-! Association in the near future. 000 men had been ordered to return| One plan is to build a highway starting September 8. through the proposed civic centre Officials of the company said they which will require removal of some expected 50,000 men to be recalled by buildings. the middle of September. The com- i ee pany made no announcement of me, | Washingtont s Trees change in the three-day-a-week work Fed Ground Meal ing schedule which has been in effect ! for many months, | --_-- British Night Plane Passes First Trial London.--The fastest night-fighter airplane in the world has passed its ! flying trials. [It has a speed of mora than 200 miles' an hour at a height of three miles above ground, and can Washington. -- Raw ground bone meal is being fed to all of Washing- ton's valuable park trees to save them. Artificial feeding was resorted to some time ago by the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks as the re- "sult of the drought. Holes ere drilled - three or four feet into the ground beside threatened trees, raw ground bone meal placed in them and the earth saturated with climb to over six miles. ater. Sli 7 Electrically heated clothing and A True Life oxygen breathing apparatus are in- cluded in the equipment for use by tha pilots in the cold and rarified high air, and ther. is electric light and heating, No intelligent person can fail to ob- serve the power of a true life for good upon all with whom it comes in direct contact, 7 Trestle Desttoyed by Gale of geribed by Hardy's admirers all over - the world, and is to be presented to Dorehestar---the Casterbridge "of - the Hardy novels, and the novelist's old homie. carrying with it seven s who were | romping in sawd One of the boys, aged 13, lost his life when he was buried in sawdust and 'smothered. | Five others were injured, while one escaped unharmed. The obys were so, terrified when thep found they coul ting their injuries, they ran over quarter of a mile to his house to sum- | mon assistance. One of the boys had both arms fractured and 'another a severe cut in the foot. notice it, we were so frightened," one of them explained later. din, 11, fractured arm and bruises; Magcel "Marchand, 8, cut foot; Lucien Goyette, 11, bruised side and: ' possible arms fractured; Andre Goyette, 8, cut foot; Paul Normandin, 9, was unhurt, There was a double roof, the inner one covering the ice and bearing a thick layer of sawdust to prevent the cold air from escaping. Above the whole was the outer roof of the build- ing. The boys were playing in the section between the two roofs, when part of the lower roof, measuring 20 by 25 feet, collapsed, shooting the boys and the sawdust down tq the floor. The boys picked themselves up, and noticed that young Sabourin was lying still. "We tried to awaken him and we shook him. When we saw that he did not come to we got scared and ran to his house, a quarter of a mile away," Georges Normandin said, Police and citizens rushed to the scene and quickly located the body. but artificial respiration failed to re- vive the boy. None of the injured lads were in danger, it was stated. It was estimat- ed that 500 cubic feet of sawdust. fell with the victims when the collapse de- curred. ------ ------------ Vault Survives Here is the town hall vault, all that was left of hall when 3100, 000 blaze razed two thirds of Osnabruck Centra, village 20, miles west of Cornwall, Ont, re \ cently. > Nautilus Silent For Four Days Fears for Safety of Wilkins' Craft Are Now Enter- tained Oslo, Norway.--Serious concern was felt here Thursday for the safety of the Nautilus, Sir Hubert Wilkins' Arctic. submarine, when no news of the ship had been received for four days. Authorit'ss instructed ail amateur radio operators to try to establish communication with the submarine. All official wireless stations have been calling the Nautilus without re- sult for several days. The captain of the Norwegian co l- ing steamer Ingerte, reported that he heard faint signals from the submar- ine, but that these were too weak to be read. 'I'he suggestion was male here that there signals might have come from the submarine's portahie transmitter which may have been carried oution the ice-by the crew. The Board of Fisheries has in- structed a sealing ship which is now at Longyear City, Spitzbergen, to re- main there in readiness for a relief dash if necessary. The admiralty also considered the possibility of send- ing the sloop Fridtjof Nansen, now at Harstad, County Nordland, to try to locate the Nautilus, but no definite Hecision was 'made, SOVIET TAKES A HAND. Moscow--The Government ordered all Soviet ships at ports in northern to ¥" | waters to take all possible steps ' communicate with Sir Hubert wil pe Arctic a Nautilus. A not "awaken". Sabourin that, forget- m "We didn't! The injured were: Georgs.Norman- internal injuries; Jules Aube, 12, both 5. Joan, QT one rot ot empty ice-house here, omic crisis throughout the world congress to b that no single remedy is likely to during September, The electrical and culty. | turning London into a fairyland city. The committee's declaration was While .the original proposal was to yecom- have the city illuminated for one submitted week, so great has been the enthusi- - the commission in. Pra session. asm that the display, it is said, will be .In proposing a number of measures held ail through tite month. tor improving the present condition of. Instead of ordinary floodlights, an - international commerce, industry and elaborate color scheme 1s being work. finance, the committee called om the ed out, Among the principal struc politicians to spredd through the world tures to be illuminated are the Houses by all possible means, "a general feel- of Parliament, Buckingham Palace, ingot confidence." Westminster Abbey, Nelson's Column, The European committee's chief re- Westminster Cathedral, County Hall, commendations to the commission Somerset House, Foreign 'Office, India may be summarized thus: Office, Admiralty Arch, Victoria Mem The ultimate goal of efforts for orial, Horse Guards Parade, N National economic 'alleviation should, be to Gallery and St. Thomas's Hospital, make Europe a single market for the| Service searchlights will also be put products of all countries of the world. into play and will turn the Thames in- This contemplates the development of. to a luminous waterway. Victoria Em- an economic and customs union em- bankment will be lighted and Big Ben bracing all Europe. Tower, brilliantly illuminated, will be The League of Nations should take visible from many parts of the metrop- a more active part in faciliating the olis, Church spires and bridges will issue of state loans of an international be lighted and in addition to the character, searchlights, fire floats will ply the The League's finance committee Thames and throw up fountains of should co-operate with the bank for |water i colored lights. A special ex- international settlements and nation- hipition will be the Joodlighting by al treasury officials in extending fin: gas of the western end of the lake in ancial assistanee to needy states, * | St. James Park and a demonstration of 'an 'bring relief from. the prevailing diffi- gas industries are to collaborate im The European commission should study the proposal for creating an in- ternational bank for granting, long term credits, The European Sommission should study the possibility of encouraging commercial treaties embodying pre: ferential tariff rakes, provided these | airdrome and aircraft lighting will be held at Croydon. Authorities in the suburbs plan to | light their prominent buildings in a similar manngr. Many cities through- out England ove joined in the cele- bration, and there will be similar ob- servance at the castles of Edinburgh, treaties are publicly negotiated and do ' Scarborough, Dover and Rochester and not Tnjure third parties. To .reduce unemployment an inter- national placement bureau should be! created. ~ A technical conference on placing labor should be convoked. The Soviet economic non-aggression pact should' be profoundly studied. ttn Brazil Dumps 1,250,000 Bags of Coffee Into Sea ed between $5,000,000 and §10,000.000 , worth of coffee to eliminate a part of the enormous surplus of the product, ; according to statistics compiled by the change. It is estimated that approxi- mately 1,260,000 bags of coffee, with 132 pounds in each bag, were destroy- ed between September, 1930. and Aug- ust of the current year. Although ' some of the coffee was dumped into the sea, most of it was burned. From September, 1980, fo June, { 1931, the Sao Paulo Coffee Institute destroyed 479,000 bags. This was all | low grade coffée that was confiscated { by the institute or given up by pro- ducers, who, in return. were granted permission to ship out an equivalent amount of high grade coffee above the regulated export quotas, ment put into effect the "ten-shilling"' coffee export tax, which provided that a special tax of ten shillings be placed on each bag of coffee for export. The money levied from the tax was to be used for the purchase of higher grade | Santos coffee for destruction under the | supervision of the National Coffee Council. During the last three months the council has destroyed 770,000 bags of cbffee purchased with the money from the ten-shilling tax, A Maple Sugar Products Cut 50 Per Cent. 1931 Quebec.--A decrease of 50 per cent. is shown in the production of maple sugar products in the province of Que- hec this year as compared with 1930, it was announced recently hy Cyrille Vaillancourt, chief of the Maple Pro- ducts Service of the Department of Agriculture. The crop this year had a value of $1,817,000 as against $3,611, 783 last year, The decrease in pro- duction'this year is attributed to lack of rain during last Fall and Winter, and ahsence of aight frosts this Spring. wept -- Chinese' Newsboys Ordered to be Silent Tientsin, China.--Chinese newsboys who shout "paper" and cry out the contents of the newspapers as a means of 'attracting the people to buy them, have been ordered by the local officials to sell their newspapers "silently." It is chargeld that these mewsboys 'advertise aloud the sensational stories and often contradict ha 'is actually published 4n- the ne (It ds said that in times. "polit 1 upheav- | als, such shouting -on the streets causes fear and unrest among the populace The Brazilian government has burn- | New York Coffee and Sugar Ex-| Karly in June the Brazilian govern.) | the cathedrals of Durham, Newcastle, Ripon and Hexham. : FA 'Boys Complete Bust & Of Sir Walter Raleigh _ Williamsburg, Va. -- The life-size bust of Sir Walter Raleigh, made by ' Italian boys at the North Bennett Street Industrial School of Boston, (Masa, has been brought to Willlams- "burg by Perry, Shaw & Hepburn, re- storation architects, for filling the "niche above the main entrance to the | restored "Raleigh Tavern," to replace ithe original, which has been lost or destroyed. This famous hostelry, first owned, it is believed, by Dr. Archibald Blair, a brother of the first president of William and Mary College, will be reopened in the near future. This leaden bust of Sir Walter is a new handicraft developed at the Bos- ton school under Mr. George Greener. This same school has done some work in brass for the restoration here. The work of landscaping the premises of the ancient rebuilt Raleigh, burned in 1859, is nearing completion. - Under the lawn are the old foundation ruins of a colonial shop that went by the name of the "Unicorn's Horn." ------ Search for New Grasses Is Urged by Canadian Scientist London.--A world search for new, grasses in order to improve the grass- lands of the Em ire for the purpose of raising cattle an' sheep is suggested by the Canadiia scientist, C. McCon- key, in an Empire Marketing Board report on "Recent Advances in Pas- ture Management." The scientist argued: "The limiting factor -of production is not the num- ber of cattle and sheep, which can be increafied indefinitely, but the raw ma-) terial which they transform. Grass is therefore a subjec. for research pre- eminently worthy of intensive work on an Empire basis." pts British Railways Show Big Carrying Year Seventeen million animals, 200, 000,000 tons of coal and 63,000,000 tons of minerals traveled by rail in Great Britain during the year ended July 1. Tons of merchandise trans- ported came to 55,000,000. while 218,- 000,000 gallons of milk and 76,000,000 parcels, apart from those carried in his Majesty's mail bags, were carried, i Chnuee ph Churchill Elevator Active Churchill, Man.--Canada's farthest northgrain elevator went into action on Sept. 2nd at this thriving settle ment on the rocky shores of Hudson Bay. Twenty-four cars of No. 1 North- ern wheat, destined to be transported | overseas in a two-boat test of the Bay route. this month, "recently reached 'here. linens CONSCIENCE conscience begin to grow hard, for it ror ri. an it 4 not crushed even compared hind logs obtain nourishment, they ages nderous loads of iniquity --C. 18 Bpquen "It is a very terrible thing to lot 'soon 'chills into northern Tron and zs '

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