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i ) ~__ far as is known this is the first {v » amination, in her quest for suc- cess. She's too young! _ upon evolution, an annual plant has = the process of evolution in nature, AGE BARS GIRL Girl May Have to Wait THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1931 X-Rays Change Annual Plant Into Perennial in Cornell Test Ithaca, N.Y.--In experiments to learn more about effects of X-rays been changed into a perennial at "Cornell University. The annual: has to be raised from seed yearly, while the perenial comes up each spring from roots: ~ 'Although no X-rays are known in very similar short wave radiation exists in rocks all over the earth's surface, so that the X-rays both give a picture of what is possibly happen- ing in nature, and also a new tool for use of the scientist. Later it may become useful for the horti- culturist and gardener, . The plant which changed its na- ture at Cornell is the Euchlaena, the closest wild relative to corn. There are two species, Mexicana the an- n and Perennis the perennial. e of the seed was exposed to X-Rays for a few minutes and then germinated. The young stalk be- gan life as an annual] but later on, while still young, it developed some of the appearances of a perennial. Then the annual portion dried. up and disappeared, and the remaining stalk developed into a true peren- nial. It has been customary to classify this perennial as a distinct species. Therefore, if the change at Cornell stands the rigid tests which will be made to find some error in this seeming miracle, a single shot of X- rays may be credited with creating a new species virtually overnight. The change also may serve to ex- plain nature's processes in develop- ing perennial plants. One of the alterations caused in this wild corn plant by the X-rays has been iden- tified by Dr. L. F. Randolph, re- search associate at Cornell and as- sociate cytologist of the U.S. De- partment of Agriculture, who con- ducted the experiments, WHEAT IS PRICE OF ADMISSION 'A Bushel Will Buy Ticket to the Fair Indianapolis, Aug. 26. -- One bushel of wheat will admit either an adult or an automobile to the Indiana state fair on Farmers' Day, September 9, the fair board announced today. Children under 12 will peed only half a bushel in their sacks. Regular admission will be 50c for adults, 25c¢ for children. Farmers said the b50c saved would beat selling wheat at 40c. The wheat will be trucked to elevators and sold by the fair board. CANADA WILL SHIP | OATTLE TO FRANCE) Arrangements Made to Forward 10,000 Head, Says Minister Saskatoon, Sask., Aug. 26.-- Prither development of the export €anadian cattle trade was an- nounced by Hon. Robert Weir, when the Minister of Agriculture told representatives of the Saska- toon Board of Trade he had just completed arrangements to ship 10,000 head of cattle to France within the next ten months. As time for 70 years that cattle from this country have been shipped to France. The Minister further announc- ed that 80 stocker cattle are now being sent weekly to Britain in uddition to regular fat cattle ship- ments already arranged. Mr. Weir stated completion of arrangements for shipments to France was made while in Regina. The County Line Company will #01p the cattle and the Dominion Government will bear the cost of equipping the boats with stalls, the Minister added. ~ Mr. Weir dealt with the work of his department and again re- iterated his often-expressed view that farmers of the west must im- prove their cattle. If this was done he foresaw a bright future for the livestock industry. The Minister said it was prob- . able Rt. Hon. R. B Bennett would make his official announcement relative to relief work in Saskat- chewan on Aug. 28. Mr. Weir announced arrange. ments had been mads with the railways for a rebate of 50 per cent on freight rates for all cat- tle purchased from ranches from former feeder lots. FROM NORMAL Three Years on Tech- nicality 41 (By Canadian Press) Saint John, N.B.--A technical jarrier will retard Annie Mary ght, of Hopewell Hill, Albert County, second highest in New Brunswick in the Second Division Normal School Entrance Ex- restriction, and she will not be fourteen until September 24, she has slightly more than three years to wait before she can take the benefit of passing the entrance tests--although she was second in standing. Much of the credit for her sur- prising progress to date is said to be due to her instructor, Clyde Keith, principal, who took a help- ful interest in her when he dis- covered her consistent ability. Last year Annie won the Lieuten- ant-Governor's medal for highest marks.in Albert County. She has attended the same school all her life. FLYERS DROPPED PAPERS ENROU'TE Sixteen Copies of New York Daily Dropped on Flight (By Canadian Press) St. John's, Nfld.-- Somewhere on the Avalon Peninsula is an is- sue of a leading New York daily newspaper, securely wrapped and addressed to Sir Richard Squires, a complimentary copy that was dropped by Russell Boardman and John Polando as they sped over the Island dominion while on their hop from New York to Istanbul, Turkey. It is understood that the "'Cape Cod" carried sixteen copies of this metropolitan daily which the flyers dropped at specific in- tervals throughout the longest nonstop aeroplane journey ever made in history. But of the sixteen dropped only one was found, and that was pick- ed up by an air mechanic on LeBourget field at Paris. It was addressed to the Mayor of Paris, and was the first news to the ar- rival of the flyers over Europe, and was received just when con- siderable anxiety was being felt for their whereabouts. SPIRITED BIDS FOR SWORDFISH One Hundred Boats Now Engaged in Swordfish- ing Industry (By Canadian Préss) Glace Bay, N.S.--The business depression has not affected the swordfishing industry, if current quotations offered for the catch of swordfish fleet are any indica- tions of the prosperity of the in- dustry. A boat with a crew of three aboard recently arrived with six fish, the largest weighing 480 pounds; and for their catch the men aboard this vessel averaged about $80 apiece for the day. The arrival of the fleet with their catches at the Glace Bay waterfront causes a scene of con- siderable excitement. Spirited bidding takes place between the different dealers, and in a par- ticular case one swordfish changed hands no less than three times, to be finally sold at thir- teen and one-half cents a pound. Close to one hundred boats are now engaged in following the swordfishing industry here and this number will = be increased soon by fleets from the south- ward. The sworders are stil] in deep water, the boats having to steam almost twenty miles off shore to meet with any success. AVA NA PY [ MESSAGE FOUND AFTER SIX YEARS Bottle Thrown Out in Gulf! Stream Found in Norway (By Canadian Press) : Saint John, N.B.--On Novem- ber 17, 1924, the wife of the cap- tain of the three-masted schooner "Susan B." abandoned as a dere- let in a terrific storm in the Gulf Stream, penned a little message containing the story of the dis- aster, enclosed it in a bottle, and tossed it to the waves. In October, 1930, the daughter oi Captain Clifford Bighop of the Susan B., to whom the note was addressed, received a letter from a man in Norway, saying that he had picked up the bottle on the shore «of a little island called Flavor, on the coast of Norway. The man on finding the bottle and extracting the message, for- warded the latter to tlie United States address, where it was re- ceived and is held by Vera Bishop as an interesting memento of the sea disaster. The bottle, as a useful ocean carrier of news, has mow been displayed by radio and wireless communication, but in days gone by it was often the sailor's only means of sending out the story of the disaster. A strange story likely lieg be- hind the wanderings across the Atlantic of this bottle as it rode the billows of the storm-swept ocean for six years to be finally picked up on the rugged coastline of Norway, But of its wanderings over mountainous geas, in dark- ness and storm, or when sunlight played on the waves, man will never know. It took a long time, but, true to the traditions of its kind, it delivered its message. JUDGE IS GOOD AT | JIGG-SAW PUZZLES Will Had Been Torn Into 163 Pieces, But Was Interpreted by Judge (By The Canadian Press) London, -- Justice Sir Alex- auder Dingwall Bateson, of the F'robate Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice, proved himself an expert in jig-saw puzzles in the Probate Court recently when a will was produced that had been torn into 163 pieces. The solicitor pro- ducing it said he had stuck a number of pieces on a large slieet of paper, but he had been able to place correctly only 78 of the fragments. There were 15 pieces of wri- ting for which he could not find a place, and 70 pieces of margin and blank paper. Justice Bate- son examined the large sheet and the additional pleces, and then said, "I don't think you are very good at jig-saw puzzles. I have tried one of the stray pieces and fitted it into the jig-saw at once." His Lordship said the solicitor might make an affidavit, and pro- bate would then be granted of the document as pieced together and completed. The case was that of Clegg v. England, and concerned the will cf Harriett England, formerly of Goole, Yorkshire. H. B. Durley Grazebrook, of The Temple, who was acting in the case, explained in the Court that Mr. Clegg was seeking to ob- tain probate of the estate. Origi- nally, solicitors prepared a draft will and Hariet England signed the official copy. Some times la- ter she tore her copy of tne wili into pieces. These, however. were secured, and with the origi- nal draft which had been re- tained, they were presentad for prchbate, SEAGULL MAKE BIG MEAL OUT OF GRASSHOPPERS Birds Save Manitoba Dis- trict From Insect Menace (By The Canadian Press) Winnipeg, Man. -- Gull and grasshopper met on Manitoba soi) recently dn a greatly one- sided contest. Araules of Frank- lin gulls swept in over the north- end recently, swooped to earth and commenced to eradicate the grasshopper faster than any scheme yet put forward by sci- ence. As residents of the district watched, the gulls went to work, quickly, systematically and fatal- iy. The 'hoppers never had a chance with their inveterate en- emies of the air. They were Guickly pulled down into fea- thered throats that never seemed to tire. The gull-'hopper battle recal- led the famous 'hopper massacre in Utah, in 1878. Faced with famine as a result of the invasion of the jumping pests which threatened to devour everything on plant and tree, Utah's popnu- lace was rescued by the gull army. In the nick of time the Frank- iin gulls came to the rescue, rio the country of the 'hoppers and today, in Salt Lake city, there stands a monument to the fa- mous bird. Boy--"Do you keep the Family Herald and Weekly Star?" Newsagent--*'No, we sell it. We 3 4Aever get a chance to keep it." MISS NOBODY FROM NOWHERE web Elizabeth Jordan INSTALMENT XVI | They were in her sitting-room, and now she rose and walked to the | window, where she stood for a mo- iment with her back wo him, looking out. Something in her manner made him feel that he could fol- 'low her. He did so, and stood be- Iside her as he had done their first 'evening together in that room. The {same memory rose in the minds of {oth and under the force of it she turned to face him. : "You're right," she said quietly. "I love you. I didn't realize it till this week. I didn't want you to know it now. But I suppose I've been showing it Svary time I look- ed at you or spol 0 you." "Evel!" Her exptession stopped |his speech and held him motion- Jess. fie "I love you," she repeated. "But Tl never marry you, really, till I'm absolutely myself again.' ' "And when you're absolutely yourself again," he almost groaned, "you won't know me at all. My God, Eve! think what you're condemning us to, if this thing lasts!" "And think what I'd condemn us to if I married you while I'm like | this and then--" she felt for the right words and 'verbally underlin- jed them--"came back to find my- self the wife of a stranger, That's the way it's said to be, you know, in these cases." "But you love me now," he cried. "You've said so! I can't take it In yet, but you've said so!" "Oh, yes, I love you now." She added slowly, "And I'm depending on you to keep me from making any mistakes in that, just as I'm depending on you in everything else." There was a moment's silence while the full significance of the admission came to him, and 'the earth rocked. The combined love and pity he felt for her in that moment was the most shattering emotion he had ever known, He wanted to seize her and hold her; he wanted to kneel at her feet. He yeok her hands and looked down at her. "Eve," he sald, as steadily as he | had spoken, 'if I've won you once, and--thank God!--you say I have, I can db it again when you're well. I will do it again! And in the meantime I'll be the happiest and the most patient lover you can imagine." She continued to look up at him, and he bent with an inarticulate murmur and laid his cheek against hers. For an instant they clung to- gether, while he felt her tears on his face. Then she spoke. "Now I have done {t!" she brought out with 'a childish gulp of centrition. 'Now I've dragged you Into the very heart of this hideous tangle. I hate myself for doing it--for letting you know I care, But oh, Eric, how could I help it!" He released her and stood back, steady-eyed but trembling under his apparent calmness, "That's that," he cheerfully an- nounced. "Now we'll go down. to luncheon. And to-night we'll take in a musical comedy and drop in at Jake's afterward." "And I'll have to put on the same dancing-frock I wore there every night," she smiled, gallantly play- Ang up, "because § haven't any- 'thing else." "But what about the dyed hair? 'You certainly don't have to go around now with it looking this 'way?" he pointed out. They stared at each other in con- 'sternation. ter lunch I'll go up to the beauty parlor," she decided, "and ask them to get rid of it for me. That will give you an afternoon off uty." As the visit to Jake's drew near- er she found herself growing ner- yous. "Perhaps he won't even speak to me," she told Hamilton when they were entering the big dancing-room toward midnight. "Oh, I guess he will." Hamilton spoke soothingly, but it was clear that the matter of Jake's reception was not burdening his mind. Nor did the place disturb him, as he had expected it to. He was now in a state of well-benig nothing could ruffle. Eve loved him. Incidental- ly, he played the game as she would wish him to play it. Looking very handsome in his evening clothes, he followed the waiter to the table he had reserved, and consulted Eve at every stage of an elaborate sup- per order. She, however, found it hard to - fix her mind on that vital interest. Her eyes were busy. She saw Maizie and Stella at the far end of the dancing floor, but apparently meithet saw her. Queenie and Ivy 'were not in the room. However, [the night was young and they {would surely appear later. ;, She stared around her, intrigued (by the chance to study as an ob- ,server the scene in which she had i80 often taken a professional part. {In all her nights there she had never been able to sit at a table and really give her eyes to the tab- ileau as a whole, and she did it 'now, while Eric and the waiter, the Jatter a man she had not seen be- [tom Jone Somtinued ¢ to Seenirale duel 'tho on supper y It was met at last and as Eric straightened, prepared to give his attention to his companion, a familiar voice spoke to Eve. It was Jake's, and the new-comers were ., He recalled the departing waiter, gave him instructions for very spe- jclal service, and, as the man de- |perted, turned away, making it Io their former octaiatames wad r r |come from him. sald; land take in the fact that sterner {left here. | She had never before seen Jake smile. The phenomenon was worth Iwitnessing, for it made Jake's cold mask suddenly and warmly human, vg The two men measured each other with a friendly glance, "That's all right," Jake said. "I Knew'there was some good reason." A little later Ivy and Queenie pre. sented themselves with beaming Eric's invitation to supper. Miss friendliness and promptly accepted Morris refused to be greatly im- pressed by the marriage, but Ivy's unwinkling blue eyes never left the bridegroom. . "Any chance of soap back?" Queenie asked nonchalantly. "Not the least," Eric said before she could speak. / "I & you know your gentle- man friend from C 's been blowing in and out since you faded away," Queenie went on thought- fully stirring an oyster in its tomato bath. "But don't worry, dearie, for he didn't get a thing on you here." ; "We didn't know a thing to give him," Ivy tactlessly contributed. "We wouldn't of told it if we had," Queenie austerely pointed out, and with a disgusted glance at her friend swallowed the oyster. Jake reappeared when Eve and Hamilton were leaving and gave them another excellent imitation of his great cabaret model. He also offered Eve a newspaper cut- ting and watched her face as she read it. It was Henderson's ad- vertisement. She looked up, start- led, and handed it td Hamilton, "Has any one else seen this?" the latter asked quickly. "Nope. Wasn't sure the lady her- self seen it. Thought I better put her wise." "Thank you," Eve sald. "How long have you known about it?" "Saw it the day it came out. Reco'nized you from it the first night you blew in here," Jake ad- mitted. "And you haven't spoken of it to any one else?" Eric asked. "Cert'n'y not. Nobody's business but the lady's." "Yours even kinder than I thought you were," Eve said grale- fully, and to Jake's surprise offered him her hand at parting. Eric, too, gave his hand a firm grip. "Sometime, perhaps, I'll be able |to explain," Eve went on. "I can't yet." Jake shook his shining black head and smiled his rare smile, "No explanations ne'ssary," he gallantly told the lady. "But I'm sure glad to know everything's all right now." His black eyes ware very human. "Gladsomeone's look- in' afterher," he brought out in a rush, "Waskinda-worried." It was his exit line from their lives. "And yet some people think this is a hard world," Eve tpld Hamil- ton as their taxicab made its slow way through the Tenderloin's con- gested traffic. "I've had nothing but kindness. If I hadn't. I wonder what would have become of me if I'd had the sort of experi- ence one often reads about?" "It doesn't bear thinking of," Hamilton recalled his thoughts on the night of Zve's disappearance and added hastily: "I'm glad we went to that place. Seeing it, and meeting that chap Jake, have changed my feelings about it." "I thought they would," Eve smiled. He glanced at her quickly. The Chicago agency's reply to Eric's telegram had promised a full report by mail. The document it- self came on the morning of the fourth day. It was a completa re- port. It even included the names and addresses of Eve's Chicago physicians and of the nurse who had attended her. Out of it, more- over. Henderson rose in triumphant vindication. Hamilton telephoned Carrick the confirmation of the manager's story and added a breathless question: "How much can I tell her?" "Nothing," Carrick ruled. "But--" "Not one word! I've felt sure the story was straight, just as you did, so I've been getting ready. Well make our experiment in a day or two, and I'll give you the details in an hour if you'll drop into me office. Can you get away from Miss Carrington long enough to do that?" : This was Carrick's idea of a joke and Hamilton ignored it. But he was on time for the appointment, and the psychiatrist, after greeting him exuberantly talked for half an hour. "I think. it's an awful risk" Hamilton muttered. "Are you setting ment against mine "Yes." Carrick laughed. "Well, don't," he advised. "But Tll come down to the Garland during the morning and put Miss Carrington through some more tests," he added, relenting, he sent the anxious bridegroom out of his office with a friendly push on the shoulder. Hamilton was not an easy man to down. At five that afternoon he was again in Carrick's con- | sulting roc 1, expressing the ad- ditional doubts that had come to | him after the unsatisfactory results | of the tests. At last Carrick, de- spite long experience with the anxious friends of patients, lost his pup your jydg- per. "You realized, didn't you, that she didn't respond to any of the tests I made this morning?" he snapped. "You bet I did." "Not even the plano meant any- thing to her, did it?" "It didn't seem to." "And she's still afraid--panicky at times?" "Yes. She says she has even given up the notes sh made and carried around with her. They end the day she left Jake's." "All right, then. Do you want her Jo, emain in this state indefintie. "God knows I don't." "Then prove it. Open your mind measures are necessary. 'The im- portant thing now isn't what you think, but what you've done. Have done what I told you to do?" (To be continued tomorrow) . Aviation is wonderful. A per- scn can circle the globe in abour a week and still have some of his vacation Jeft for pleasure, Grandchildren Persuade Aged Couple to Remarry Chicago, Aug. 24--An 86 year old man and an 80 year old woman di- vorced in 1897 after living together 29 years, will be married again next Saturday. : "I don't know just where it will be though, our great-great-grand- children are attending to that," said Norville Williams, the bridegroom- to-be. "It was the great-great-grandchil- dren, and the great-grandchildren, and the grand children and the chil- dren who brought us back together again after all these years," he ex- plained, "but I always wanted to go back anyway, because Emma was my vrst love and I never forgot her." The couple first were married in August, 1868, After their five chil- dren were grown, they were divorc- ed in 1897. In 1915 Mrs, Williams was married to Norville Martin. Williams was married again the same year. Martin died two years ago. Williams second wife died this year. Then the great-great-grandchild- ren got busy. COMMISSIONER HAS RESIGNED Leader of Girl Guides Not Satisfied With Conditions Retirement of Mrs, I G. Bogart, of Kingston, from the position of divisional commander of Girl Guides in Frontenac, Grenville and Leeds Counties, is announced. A number of other Guide officers in the dis- trict have also resigned. "We have resigned because we are not satisfied with existing con- ditions," Mrs. Bogart explains. Headquarters of the movement in Toronto issued the following state- ment last night, signed by Mrs. Sarah T. Warren: "Mrs. I. G. Bogart, of Kingston, did not resign her commission as divisional commissiner of Grenville, Frontenac and Leeds. Her warrant was recalled by Dominion headquar- ters on August 6, as it was decided by the Chief Commission and the Canadian Council of the Girl Guide Association after long and careful investigation, that her work as com- missioner was not conducive to suc- cessful guiding in the division. Mrs. Bogart has not held the office of district commissioner since June, 1930, when her warrant as district commissioner was cancelled. Mrs. Bogart was the first divis- ional commissioner, and had the honor of being the first warranted district commissioner in 1922 and divisional commissioner in 1926, she stated she had given 13 years of her time to the Guides. Expressing regret that she was relinquishing her command, she stated she loved the work, and at all times had put her best effort into it. MOVING STOCK FROM DRY AREA Railways And Government Co-operate to Save Cattle Regina; Sask. The government of Saskatchewan and thé railway companies will joint- ly finance the shipment of stock to pasturage in the north from the drought areas of the south- ern part of the province. Hon. W. C. Buckle, minister of agricul- ture has announced. It is con- sidered wiser to ship cattle from the drought areas than to ship feed down from the north. According to estimates pre- pared on the basis of 500 head, the department has arrived at the conclusion that by shipping the stock rather than the feed a saving of approximately $4,000 can be effected, MISSIONARIES ARE PRISONERS Bandits in China Hold Members of Three Churches Peiping, Aug. 26.--Dispatches to native newspapers from Tsin- antfu today said 230 missionaries from North America were being held prisoners by bandits at 5 Tamingfu, 250 miles south of Peiping. The dispatches sald Chinese government troops were besieg- ing the gang, headed by the ban- dit leader, Liukwei Tang, in an effort to free the prisoners. The missionaries were described as belonging to the Nazarene, Men- nonite and National Holiness churches, SUGGEST TRADING FISH FOR WHEAT New York's Chief Citizen Now Swears by Ger- man Brew (By The Canadian Press) Saskatoon, Sask. Prairie wheat may be exchanged for fish and coal from the Maritimes, if a new proposal for the Hudson Bay route is put into effect. The latest suggestion for the develop- ment of trade through Churchill, rorthern Manitoba port, has been received by Dr. E. H. Oliver, moderator of the United Cuuren of Canada. Future development of inter- provincial trade by the Bay is envisaged in the Maritime inter- cst expressed through Dr. Rich- ard Hamer, general secretary for the United Church, at Halifax, N. 8. The fish-coal-wheat trade idea is advanced as a move to remedy acute distress among Maritime fishermen as well as to aid weste wheat.farmers, who heve been hit by low prices and adverse weather. Thousands of shore-fishermen, according to Dr. Hamer, are won- cering how they will live this winter and they are unable to find a market for their product. On fish disposed of, he says, the Maritimers realize only one cent a pound. They would be tided over 'the bad times by milling the wheat and also by trading it for winter coal. "Would it not be possible for the government to charter a suit- atle boat-service from Churchill, on Hudson Bay, to Halifax, Pic- tcu and North Sydney, asks Dr Hamer, in a letter to Dr. Oliver. "In any case, assurance of return freight would: make for cheaper rates by boat or rail." "We could.also trade our fisa fcr coal from the Cape Breton miners here and supply them with wheat for which we paid you in fich," suggests the communica- tiop., "Thus, miners, farmers * and fishermen, three primary pro- ducers, could obtain the neces- sities of life during the winter and avold unthinkable hardships.' Attention of Premier J. T. M. Anderson has been drawn to the proposal and efforts will he made to obtain a decision before the Bay route opens 'or test wheat shipments in mid-September. A man went to see his physi- cian for advice as to how to be cured of the habit of snoring. "Does your snoring disturb your wife?' asked the M.D. "Does it disturb my wife?" echoed the patient. "Why, it disturbs the whole congregation." THE STRIDER SHOE = rar Z oz % 4 me - 7 % Real Thrift! $ YEAR ago you paid from $7 to $8 for Footwear of equal quality, but price revision has been definitely in your favour this fall. SHOE STORE how easily avoided if gloom and glare with Lamps. Use these dependable lamps freely throughout your home. Lu CANADA