9 » ! f if'.'.'*-' » « V* '% k > '«v *• '*t â- Ik ^ * * 1 • I ^ 1 « A l« Segrave to Seek Speed Records in Motor Boat and Auto Races British Major Hopes to Achieve 240 Miles on Hour on the Daytona Track in February; Expects to Skip Over the Water at Ninety Miles an Hour London.â€" The Golden Arrow, In > Tires, Ue declared, were .the great which Major H. O. D. Segrave. holder P^oW<^^ J°^ ^f^'ng motorUts. ' , , â- 'Last time," Segrave related, "the of the world speed record for motor , ^.^j^p^ny promised that the tires would cars, hopes to reach 240 miles an • gtand up at 200 miles an hour tor hour, Js almost completed. Major ; three minutes â€" and they did. This Segrave will take the car to Amer'ca ', time they promise one minute at 240 In January for tests on the sands of miles an hour, and that should be Daytona Beach, Fla. I long enough." Simultaneously, his new motor boat, I According to plans now announced, chrl.stenod Miss Kngland, is receiving Segrave'a car will present a unique final touches. This craft will be a ' appearance. It will be so low that the comrade of the Golden Arrow in seek- top of its tires will be the highest part Ing to lower American records. ' Major ; of it, and it can stand upside down Segrave expects to hop, skip and jump on its own wheels. , over the water at a rate of ninety ' Segrave's greatest problem in con- miles an hour or more. ' nection with his motor boat is to pre- "I intend to go for the records in vent it from turning over. With a February," Segrave declared in an in- single propeller the twisting strain of terview. "It is hard to say which of the engine on the hull, called "torque,' the two records will be the more dif- is so great that there is a tendency flcult to beat; I am Inclined to think for the propeller to turn the boat over the motor boat record will be the instead of propelling it forward. One harder, and it will certainly be at way out of the difllculty is to use two Old England Likes Noisy Cycles least as dangerous as the other." propellers, revolving in opposite direc- Judging solely from the design of tions. But there is twice as much re- hls car, Segrave said he knew It would sistance of the boat in the water. â€" A. produce a speed of 240 miles an hour. P. dispatch. Facts About New Warships Now on Fleet Exercises START OF GREAT RACE Butler It was a five-lap scratch event of t!:e British Motor-cyling Racing Club's meeting at Brooklands tor the Silver Cup which was won by C. W. C. Lacey. ^_^_^^^__^____^â€" â€" ^-^â€" Cruisers With Oil Kitchen Ranges and Electric Bakeries FIRST REHEARSAL struction from the Archbishop of Tuam, have segregated all the Shav- ian works on special shelves not ac- cessible to the general public. "What the Galway libraries do to- day doesn't in the least matter, see- ing that in a few weeks no books, pictures or sculpture will be permit- ted In Ireland," Shaw replied, after which he added the >essimistic pro- phecy quoted above. â€" N.Y. Herald- Tribune. « Czar's Treasures at Auction Soon Soviet Government to Offer Priceless Objects for Sale VALUE £300,000,000 Nel son and Rodney to FireBvnfiT SoOn tO J -J r lA :_ r_ ° _ _ Broadsides From 16-in Guns In Moray Firth during the next few days some of the newest and nost powerful ships of the Atlantic Fleet will engage in autumn evei-cl<!rs, some of v.hith -will be so realistic that ilie only svbstantial factor missing 'will be a real enemy target. Nelson and Rodney, the Navy's latest battk'Ehips, will fire broai.fides from their immense 16-inch guns. Hood, Re- nown and Repulse, ships of th-* battle cru;sei- squadrjn, will fire l.'5-in-';h broadsides while steaming at full power. NIGHT ATTACK. Cruisers, destroyers and aircraft carriers will shoot, at Centui-ion â€" an old battleship which is the targ^et ship of the Atlantic fleet â€" and desfroyers will carry out a night attack on the Third Battle Squadron. For the first time in autumn exer- cises Nelson and Rodney, the two great new battleships, are taking part. To say that they look odd is to be polite. "Ugly" would probably not be too harsh. The effect to the eye is a lack of balance, which contrasts strongly with the fine lines of the bat- tle cruisers. ONE TON, ONE SHOT. But these ships carry a big'ger de structive power than the des-ig^ners of British fighting ships have ever at- tempted. The si.vteen-inch projectile weighs just under one ton, so that a broad- side means nearly nine tons of metal and explosive. The gnins have a maximum range of just under 22 miles, and it has been estimated unofficially that at ten thousand yards the projectile can pierce seventeen inches of armor. To build the ships costs nearly seven and a half million pounds, of which about three millions represent guns and turret armor. They carry complements of about fourteen hundred officers and men, who consume two and three-quarter tons of food a day. 1,200 LOAVES A DAY The vast stores in the ships provide for carrying naval stores and dry pro- visions for six months, while the re- frigerating system makes it possible to carry provisions for nine weeks. The ships' kitchens would make the average housewife green with envy. • Coal is unknown. Oil, which fires the boilers, also heats the cooking ranges, and an electric bakery produces twelve hundred loaves a day. Shaw Sees ''Dark Ages" in Ireland Dramatist Comments on Free State's Censorship of Books London â€" "Ireland is going to relapse Into the dark ages," is George Bern-j ard Shaw's warning on what will happen when the Free State's censor-! ship of books will become law. | "The Free State has apparently de-j elded not to be a cultured country. I It has decided that books, pictures ' and statues are dangerous, so It isn't < going to have any. Ireland will sink i to the cultural level of the Andaman Islandsâ€" that's all," the veteran' dramatist added. r Ti. S.'« comment was called forth] iMii.rviewer drew his atten- ' I :':';t ili;U the public librar- 1 . y Ual.\.'y, following in-. Begin Police Work Reorganization of Force Will Be Started Immediately by Its New Com- mander London. â€" Viscount Byng of Vimy tas gone to Scotland Yard to begin his reorganization of the metropolitan has gone to Scotland Yard to begin through the ears of a Royal Commls- sion headed by Lord Lee of Fareham, has been hearing what is right and wrong with police methods as they now exist. Lord Lee, like Lord Byng, was once a soldier. He was the British Mili- tary Attache with the American forces ; during the Spanish-American War, and i filled the same post later at Wash- j ington. He married Miss Ruth Moore I of New York. His present task is to j find out what is wrong with London's police force, once the city's pride, but lately the recipient of more brickbats than encomiums. Evidence so far taken has been mainly In defense of the police force by its present heads, many of whom will retire when Lord Byng takes command. Sir William Harwood, Chief Commissioner, and Sir Wynd- ham Childs, Chief of the Criminal Investigation Department at Scotland Yard, who fall within this category, emphatically denied that anything like "third-degree" methods has been prac- tised in this country. The task of the police, they said, was to obtain from witnesses by all the artifices they could employ any information they required, but the moment those witnesses became sus- pected persons and started to make statements that might amount to confessions. It was the duty of the police to warn them not to say any- thing that might be used against them. This duty was always carried out, they said. Sir Wyadham, however, admitted that a belief in "third-degree" meth- ods had become rdoted in the public mind. "Perhaps engendered by the preva- lence of crook films," suggested Lord Lee. A certain amount of indignation has been caused in feminist circles by the blunt assertion of the Chief Comml-s sioner and his assistant chief that women police are still an experiment whose success lias not yet been dem- onstrated. They have been used to watch the drug traffickers and to con- vict fortune-tellers, but, according to Sir William Harwood, they have been found "unfit or responsible work." The role of the silk-stocking sleuth apparently is cast on hard lines in this country. The only critic of the police yet heard has been a magistrate of long experience, and his criticism is rather , of the use to which the force is being put. He pointed out the growing ten-' dency to emgloy the police to protect and support morals rather than simply to enforce the law, which, in the long run, gave the best results. Changes of time and custom have provided new duties for the police. Drunkenness, he states, gives them , less trouble than of yore, but the in- ' crease of motor-car owners has doubled and tripled their traffic duties, while the growth of the night-club habit keeps them busy in the small hours. An investigation is now being made by the London police chiefs to ascer- tain the source of the Ifak.-ige of of- ficial informntlon nboui the recent raids on such estublishment-s. Signed Masterpieces of French ] Furniture From Gatchina I Palace London. â€" The Soviet Government will offer for sale in Berlin on No- vember 9 picures, furniture, tapes- tries, and other are objects that once belonged to Czars and Russian noble- men. The Bolsheviks have confiscated, or "nationalized", all private art collec- tions in Russia, and by this means have become possessed of art treas- ures worth about £300,000,000. If the result of the forthcoming sale of a first selection of these treasures fulfills expectations, it is likely to be followed by other auctions. The works to be autctioned iu Ber- lin next month include pictures, sculp- 1 ture, tapesteries, bronzes and signed , masterpieces of French furniture from the Gatchina Palace, which was a per- '. sonal palace of the Czar, and contain- 1 ed 300 pictures ; from the Milthailoff ! Palace, the world-famous Hermitage i Musuem, and other "nationalized" i collections. j The Soviet Government, as is well J known, "nationalized" all the great | private art collections in Russia, add- i Ing thereby four thousand master- pieces by old masters to the Hermi- tage Museum, which already contained eleven thousand pictures, and incal- f culable wealth in ecclesiastical and j domestic objects of art of all kinds. ! The contents of the Hermitage } Museum alone were valued by ex- perts early this year at £50,000,000, and the total value of the Soviet's j art treasures cannot be less than- £300,000,000. The pictures to be offered in this first sale include works by Boucher, ' Greuze, Canaletto, Hubert Robert and other favorite eighteenth century mas- ters. The sculpture includes J. B. Lemoyne's celebrated marble bust of Marie Antoinette; the tapesteries are Gobelins of the finest period. | One great piece of silk and wool representing Raphael'.s "Scl 1 of Atlmns" was presented with three others to the Russian Crown by the | French Government just before the . French revolution. Empress' Furniture The French furniture consists main ly of signed pieces by the most cele brated cabinet-makers in the reign ' of Louis XVI, specially executed for : the Empress Catherine II. i Some estimate of the value of this section of the sale can be formed by : the total of £150,000 paid for a f ew i pieces by the same nfaster furniture- ' makers in the Cichelham sale two ' years ago. i Other objects of art to be offered are jewelled snuff boxes, candelabra in ormolu and lustre, exquisite French bronze.s, Italian has reliefs, French and German gold and silver work, and Limoge.s enamels. The Russian royal palaces and the collections of the Russian princes, archdukes and noblemen were especi- ally rich in French eighteenth cen- tury ort. All the finest furniture and pictures, except the pieces made for the French Court, were commis- sioned by the Russian collectors at the time; and the Russian palaces and mansions all contained rooms en- tirely decorated with the owners' favorite artists' works. Nearly all the befit piitures by Hubert Robert, for example, were in Russia. The treasures now offered are worth a sensational total, but the collection even so is only a sample of the Soviet Government's wealth in "natioualized" art. How Scotland Yard Observes Detectives Trained in Con- stant Registering of Fact and Form During rhe past few days a noted burglar was caught in the English MidUindH purely from observation of, his h;il)its, â- writes a student of crime in tin- London Daily Mail. Far too cleviM- to leave a tell-tale finger-print behind, Ow man was caught on the afternoon following the robbery. U liii.s livi'u his habit after "crack- ing ;i iiib" to go to any hotel iu a near-hy town and ask for a room, ex- plaining that he had travelled all night and wanted to sleep until late in the afternoon. From observation of his habits Scot- land Yard knew this, and inquiries among hotel-keepers in towns near the scene of the robbery soon dis- covered the afternoon sleeper. To the detectives whose mind, through long association with crim- inals has become a veritable picture gallery, and whose faculty for memor- izing faces, has become so keenly de- veloped, such tasks present but little difficulty. Housed at Scotland Yard is a crim- inal Record Office containing nearly 200,000 portraits of criminals. A good proportion of these men are .serving time, others have reformed and are now good citizens, while many others have gone abroad. All these portraits are classified with the record of the particular type of crime and fall into different catalogues. Althuogh there may be several persons wanted for similar offences, the trained mind of the detective, after a few minutes' study of the portraits, retains a com- plete picture of the profile and full- faced appearance of the fugitive. Result of Training Acute observation can only come from a mind developed and trained iu the constant registering of facts and forms. Observation has brought many crim- inals to justice. The annals of crim- inology teem with instances. Not long ago Stewart, sentenced to death for the Bayswater murder, was ar- rested by a detective whose powers of observation enabled him to pick his man out of thousands on the front at Southend. Outside the police force Sir Bernard Spilsbury, the eminent pathologist, is an outstanding example of the train- ed, observant, analytical mind. He is considered by the authorities to be a prince of observers. At all times of the day and night a detective's powers of observation may be put to the test. A tew montbs ago a Scotland Yard detective was told that a man whom he had never seen was in the stalls of a certain theatre and that a warrant had been issued for his arrest. A few seconds' study of his photo- graph at the "Yard" sufficed. In the half light of the auditorium the offi- cer, standing by an exit door, was able to pick out his man and make an arrest. There was nothing distinctive about the man's face, and to an un- trained mind this task would have been impossible. Boy Settlers' Plan Manitoba and Saskatchewan Will Co-ooerate, States Forke PURCHASE WHEN 21 Scheme of Government Loans to Aid Buyers to Finance Ottawa. â€" The Provincial Govern- ments are willing to co-operute with the Dominion Government in bring- ing IJrltisU boys to Canada and make It possible for them to buy farms for themselves with the assistance of government loans, after they have reached the age of 21 year.s, Hon. Hoh.'rt I'^orke, Minister of Ininiigra- tion ami Colonization, announced in a statement issued on his return from a three weeks' visit to Western Can- ada. The purpose of his trip was to work out plans for closer co-opeiatioa with the provinces. During his trip Mr. Forke had con- ferences with the Premiers and other prominent members of the Govern- ments of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Al- berta and British Columbia. His ef- fort to establishe closer co-operation with the provinces was in keeping with the recommendations of the se- lect committee of parliament which conducted the Immigration enquiry last session. "The Governments of both Manitoba and Saskatchewan have announced their willingness to co-operate with the Federal Department in its scheme for the settlement of British boys in Canada," said Mr. Forke. Under this scheme the Dominion, Provincial and British Governments join forces to give the boy an opportunity to become a farmer in Canada. British boys, especially selected, between the ages of 15 and 20, who will undertake to engage in farm work for a period ol three years, will be placed in employ, ment on Canadian farms. When a boy has attained a practical knowl- edge of farm work and live stock, has become 21 years of age, and has saved up about $B00, the Governments con- cerned, will make him a loan of $2,500 for the purchase of a farm of his own. the loan to be repaid over a period of twenty years. ! "Another scheme which was very favorably regarded provides for the , establishement of training centres for domestics in Great Britain â€" one in England and one in Scotland, where a I six weeks' course will be given free to I female domestics contemplating house work in Canada. "With regard to tho miner harvester situation, the Minister said: "It seems to be settling down quietly. So far as I could learn the great majority of the harvesters fitted into positions on Canadian farms without much dif- ficulty. "There were perhaps a few whose only purpose was to make as much trouble as they could, but the.v were quickly weeded out. Many of the harvesters now returning to Great Bri- tain will carry good reports of Canada and probably many of them will come back as permanent settlers." A Ton of Death Just Launched Ontario's Fiscal Year Now Closed Temiskaming Railway Hands Over $1,300,000 Surplus Treasury Toronto. â€" Ontario's fiscal year 1927- 2S closed at 3 o'clock on Oct. 31st. One of the last acts of the Treas- ury was to deposit a cheque for $1,- 300,000 from George W. Lee, chair< man of the Temiskaming & Northern Ontario Hallway. This represents net operating surplus of the railway for the year, and is the same as the surplus of last year. It was stated, however, that the amount indicated the best year in the history of the road when an expenditure of $300,000 on track and right of way repairs was taken into con.-^ideration. Full intciesi charges had also been mot on the $0,000,000 loan negotiated in the spring lo carry ou( an exten- sion program. Neither Premier Ferguson nor Pro- vincial Treasurer Monteith would comment in regard to the condition of tho Provincial purse, but It is under- stood that the Govornniont expects to be able to announce a surplus of approximately 4225,000. speaX THE REPTILE "The reptile! How dare lie of me that wmv!" "Why rail liim ."^uch a name?" "He's a h>ungtt lizard, th:a's why." â- ^^ "Ho wMiany limes do you imaglns he kissed .vou'.'" "So far I haven't had to imagine cli's kissed me at all." Small Bov: 'I'lease, Mum. 1 don't like these holes in the bread." Tired TERROR OF THE SEAS Mother; "Never mind. You needn'' .\ torpedo lired from the deck tube of ih,. n.-u i hilean d. si rover Orelln during Its trials in the English channel ^^^ ^^^ lioles. Leave Uiem on U soon after it had been launched. ^ | puta."