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GIRLS LEAVE FOR NOVEL VACATION 1 en, of Canadian Or Members ganization Will Spend Week at Knowlton Montreal, July 21.--The second trip of a week's duration to the Knowlton Conference of the mem- bers of the Canadian Girls in Train- ing organizations of this wrovince left the Windsor street station of | the Canadian Pacific Rallway for; Knowlton with a contingent of about 60 girls between the ages of 12 Travel To or From the West By Lake and Rail Palatial Steamships flying Canad- ian Pacific house flags provide tri- weekly service between Twin Cities, and Bay terminals. Contrary tp what one might expect it is no more expensive to travel by Steamship tp Fort Willam "than by rail, It is cheaper, in fact, as ten dollars cov- era the whole of one's meals as well as the berth on either the Kee- watin, Assiniboia or the Manitoba which ave the finest Ocean Steam- ships on the Great Lakes, By leav- ing Toronto shortly after noon on @ Saturday or Wednesday it is possi ble in less-than three hours to eom- negt With a Steamer at Port Me- Nicoll and enjoy two days and nights afloat, A similar connection and 18. In all, there will he about 100 girls taking part in this helt day. Migs D. L, Gass, B.A, working secrgtary for the Province of Q bec of the organization, Intervigwed on the station just prior to leav- ing on the train to act in charge of the camp, stated that this was the second of the vacations taken and to he taken this year at Knowl- ton, The first was for leaders and was held between July 4 and 11, The third will he a general vaca- tion from August 8 to 18, and the fourth from August 190 to 20, will he for senlors, A varied program of sports, handi- craft work, "stunts," plays, recita-' tions and community singing will he carried out, said Miss Gass, There will be a staff of leaders with Indian names who will ranked under the cognomens ue- | ,break in the westwegd journey and be | of | may be made at Uwen Sound on Mandays, Sank Ste. Marie is the only port of call en route, but it ib a voyage replete with interest and charm,'a restful and refreshing the seryice Is irreproachable, | Ask any Canadian Pacific Agent, TRANSCONTINENTAL RACE FOR "PLANES Announcement Made .of New | York to Spokane -- . Vancquver, July 21.--S§uggestions made 'at the opening session of the Provincial Government's inauiry into the Royal Alexandra Apart- ment fire which claimed eight vie- tims here on July 8 that the fire reguited from the use of alcohol instead of a compound in the re- moval of paint from the floor of the suite in which the blaze origin- ated, was followed by the announce- ment that "the investigation would be adjourned for a week to allow i alysis of the paint remover |] Aponion : i an Rating the Jnachunsont analysis made to clear up the con- thcting oVidenas and allegations mate "at the session," sald "J, A. Thomas, Fire Marshal of British Columbia, in making the announce- ment, One of the witnesses referred to, Angus W. Melntyre, chemist em- ployed hy a Victoria paint firm, testified that he believed that the fire was started through the use of alcohol by David Henderson, painter, who was charged with man slaughter, which charge was later dropped, in connection with the fire. "It ip probable that Henderson Contest "Big Chief," "Little Chief." "Wan- | pum Keeper," or treasurer, and "Flint Engraver," or secretary. The groups will he of from 10 to 12 girls each in number and will be given the names of Indian tribes. The Canadian Girls in Training movement has, now been in exist- ence for about eight years, said Miss Gass, and the present excur-, sion is in its sixth year of accomp- lishment. Formed under the aus- pices of the Religious astonishingly and now numbers around 60,000 girls of teen age throughput the Dominion in membership. It is not connected, and in no way competes with the Girls' Guides movement which is more international in its character, | CUNARD LINE MAY DBTAIN MONOPOLY Rome Publishes Report Re- garding Transport of Jugo- Slavia Emigrants Rome, July 21.--The newspaper Education, " Protestant Churches of Canada or-! ganization. the movement has grown ' its | ; tries on the speed in which he has i been New York, July 21.--An airplane | race from New York to Spokane. | Waeh., in which it is expected 100 | planes will participate, will he held | 2 ' September 18, 20 an 1. it announced Tuesday, | The race will be held under the auspices of the National Aeronautl-| cal Association, | John T. Fancher. commander of the 41st division Air Foree, Wash- ington National Guard, who made the announcement, is leaving New York for Washington, D, C., where he will confer with government of- | ficials relative to plans for the race. | The race will be preliminary to the Pulitzer Cup in Spokane, Sep- tember 23 and 24 and if it draws 100 entries it will he the largest! event of its kind ever held. Major Fancher hased his mates of at' least a hundred was | esti- en- receiving applications. Al- ready 27 planes have been entered. The event to be divided into two classes will be open to anyone. Craft of 100 horsepower will com- prise one class and 200 horsepower machines another, Barnstormers and free Jancers can enter as well as large compan- iés. Major Fancher pointed out, due to the fact that free gas and oll will be furnished by cities along the route. Case of Province Against ! and other witnesses may he recalled | | when the inquiry resumes," Thom- B.. FUEL OIL TAX BECOMES INVALID C.P.R, Dismissed by Privy Council Victoria, B. C., July 21.--Djs- missal Monday by the Privy Coun- cil of the case of the Attorney-Gen- eral of British Columbia against «he Canadian Pacific Railway over 8 claim to taxes on oil consumed by the company, makes invalid the provincial law which sought to im- pose a tax of half a cent per gallon Columbia. As a result of the decision the government will have to forego a revenue estimated by the provincial treasurer at $400,000 a year. Some $200,000 had heen collected before the constitutiopality of the act had heen questioned. It was claimed in some quarters at the time the case was pemding in the British Columbia courts that the gasoline tax was subject to at- Giornale d'Italia publishes a tele- gram from Belgrade, Jugo Slavia,! saying that a contract is about ed be concluded between the Cunard | Steamship Company and the Jugo | Slavia © Government, guaranteeing to that company for 10 years the exclusive tramsportation of Jugo Slavia emigrants. The Giorpale d'Italia, comment- 1g on the report, expresses the that it may be incorrect. If it is true, the paper adds, it would indicate a monopoly in favor of the Cunard line, which would be injurious to Italian interests since for centuries the Adriatic has been considered exclusively am [Italian sphere of action. [In the opinion of the paper it would be the same as if an Italian company should try to obtain a monopoly of Irish ship- ping, which is within the British sphere of activity. ------ -------- Now jis the season of balls--golif, | tennis, base and moth.----Arkansas Gazette. | i mot radically differemt i Fokker America, Byrd believes. OCEAN AIR LINERS - TEN YEARS AWAY Commander Byrd Sums Up Experiences of Trans. Atlantic Flight New York, July 21.--Atlantic air liners are only 10 years away, | Commander Richard E. Byrd pre- | dicted in summing up the experiep- ces of his flight to France upon his arrival here. > rm They will be multi-motored craft, from the "From am engineering stand- point, the "cross-the-ocean' type of 'plane is here," he said. "It will be our task now to make such planes airworthy as ships are We will have to per- fect plames which will not be de- pendent upon fair weather reports | ampton or New Work. ' commander kmows he is Zoing 19 | | encounter storms at sea. i | "Within 19 years passengers will | passengers quite comfontable . in | argument with one of the | oxygen cabins, the gilot | radio and using the right wind stra- Goods called for and delivered | miles an hour faster. 21 BOND ST. E. Phone 1020 : in. i} 2 = tack on the same grounds. This Jatter tax yields in the peighbor- hood of half million annually. The defendants took the position that the imposition of the tax was beyond the powers of the provin- cial government in that it amounted to indirect taxation, and were sup- held in all the courts. Argument before the Privy Coumn- cil took place at the beginning of the month and judgment was re- served. E. P. Dayis, K.C., and J. E. McMullen represented the Can- adian Pacific way and the Union Steamship Company, also among those named in the cpse. W. H. D. de B. Farris, represented the Provincial Government. .. Pending the decision of the Privy Council the tax has mot beem collect SHOT IN BATTLE WITH CONSTABLE i in : i oF ie % carrying out his duty in pre- serwing order. The fatality resulted | from a free-for-all fight at am | ontd am t site. Some af higher, their Enided by ta to push his ship along 49 to 69 "All this is only theory. i know." he cautioned, "but what we | this theory. in detail. | met to 20.000 feet. found ont on our flight bears ont We did aet Our greatest 12.009 | altitude was about | But we ave able to acquire a great | {deal of information | a crowd of young men got into an 4THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1927 TUNTREAG TIGERS IN COCHIN JUNGLE Honeymooners; Mr, and Mrs. Freeman Clarke, (Nee Aileen Hughes), En Route to Ontario fro: Shooting Expedition to Indo-China, Tell of Their Exciting Hunt there was my tiger. 1 hit him in the forehead the fivst shat and he dropped. Mrs. Clarke was even more eager to get one than 1 was." San Francisco, Calif, July 20.-- Two tiger skins, each more than eight feet long, are the distinctive VU, 8, CONSUEATR AT NICE 18 Nice, France, July 21.--A bomb exploding in front of the United States Consulate on the cormer of Boulevard Victor Huge and the Rue Alpozzo shortly before mid- night on Monday, shook the build- ing and shattered all its windows. No ome within the Consulate was injured. A cyclist passing near the Con- sulate at the time the bomb ex- ploded was thrown off his wheel and was injured slightly, NO COMENT i Victoria, B. C., July 20.--"Until the full text of the Privy Couneil's judgment is received here, we shall have no comment to make on it." Hon. J. D. Maclean, Minister of Fi- nance sald Monday, rel . dhe decision of the Privy Council dig- missing an appeal of the vince in the case against the nadian Pacific Railway for payment of a provincial tax on oil consumed by the railway. . a on all fuel oil consumed in British |= trophies brought back from the Orient by a couple who returned from a jungle honeymoon Mr. and Mrs. James Freeman Clarke, of Boston arrived in San Francisco on the Dollar liner President Taft con- cluding one o fthe most unusual bridal trips on record. For five weeks they lived in a palm leaf hut in the heart of the Coehin China jungle, wtih only a French guide and six natives for company. Mra. Clarke until her marriage, Februray 12, in Lindsay, Ontario, was Miss Alleen Hughes, danghter of the late Sir Sam Hughes, Canadian minister of militia during the war. She is a huntress hy nate. havigg met her hushand during a hunting trip in Africa two years #80. "We each wanted to shoot tigers," sald Mrs, Clarke, chatting on hoard the liner as it steamed intn San 'Francisco hay. Trim in her dark hlne suit and elose fitting felt hat, she looked far more like the eon- ventional traveller than a fearless hunter of feroelons tigers. Was Frightened at First "I was frightened at first' she confessed, a smile lighting hor fava hronzed by tropie suns. "The na- tives bullt us a hut o fpalm leaves fastened: together with split hamhou. We constructed a tiger blind about fwo and a half miles ont in the for- est." "Yon don't hunt tigers with ele- phants," interposed Mr. Clarke. "You have to put hait out, a dead animal, tied to a tree, for a tiger will drag its food away I possible It ean Ing along several times its weight. You go out bach morning to see if there are any tracks and hide behind the blind waiting for the tiger to return. When T got mine I'd been wailing since six o'clock in the morning, and was geting tired. I was reading a hook, when suddenly Oshawa Luggage "YOUR INITIAL FREE On Suit Case or Club Bag Saywell Son WEST : | of the merry-go-round a call | was sent for the police. Constable Hebert, of Thetford, neached the scene and tried to quiet the men. you | He in turn was attacked and im de- | fence fived two shots in the air to | fighten the troublemakers. Heow- | ever, . according 10 the evidence, | Medenic Martin continued to fight jit - | out with the officer, grasping him by the thoat, and in the scramble | concerning | Hebert fived again, the bullet enter- | | "1 had to wait three days for mine," sald Mrs, Clarke. %At first 1 Wis afraid ont there in the jungle alone. But ane becomes aec- eustoimed to it. The third day, 1 saw the tiger aecrass the clearing, then he went away. Toward dusk he again came fm the edge of the ¢learing. He was 15 to 18 yards away hut I didn't want to lose him, So I fived, the shot entered one nostril, went down the back of his skull and. Tadged in his shoulder, He tiated and ran. 1 fired three shots, the signal for wounded tiger to the natives, abont half a wmlle away, Wafi they case Tuning, I heard him fall, hut it was too dark to search for him then so we re- turned in the morning and found him dead, the one shot killed him." Partaok of Peacocks Barking deer, a species peculiar to the jungles, bunting, a kind of a wild catite, twelve foot lizards, wild hoar, and peacock were among the other jungie residents to 'fall before the Vreneh army rifles used by the Clarkes oa their hunting expedi- tions. "You've no idea how delici- ous those peacocks taste," sald Mrs, Clarke. "Our native cook had been trained hy a French chef, so we had the Nnest sort of food." The bride's trongsean consisted principally of gray breeches and hunting jacket, with a wide-brim- med gray felt hat--gray, hecause that color is less noiiceable in the dense Jungle than khaki, Mrs. Clarke's interest in hunting dates from the time The was a small girl when her father instructed her in the mysteries of the army rifle. She hagged her (het game---a poreupine ---when she was 10 years old, The Clarkes left San Francisco on he Overland Limited on their way to/Ontarvio where they will vis- it a few days before returning to I heard the crupehing of hones, and | banking Popton where My. Clarke is in the ness, PRIZE CATTLE ARE LANDED AT QUEBEC Quebec, July 21.---The champion Ayrshire bull of Scotland, White King, is now in Canada, together with 68 other head of prize cattle and three prize sheep. The Scottish champion is con- signed to R. Ness & Sons, of How- ick. Que., together with 28 other head of cattle White King, who weighs 3.000 pounds, is eventually going to New York. 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