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ty Council to Boost 8 EO A SE cad altel 2 J CL Ro weap r of 1,500-Acre Site Near ~ County Town (By Staff Reporter) Whitby, Feb. 17.--Unanimous en- dorsation was given by the Ontario County * Council this afternoon of a * est practical airport si - Fhe" council of Whitby attention the favorable site, * the Municipality of the ' 'ers declare commending the proposed near Whitby. This matter was included in the report of the Legislation and Memorials commit , under John Morris, Rama, fol ng its introduction to the council terday by A. W. Jackson, recve of itby, and F. H. Annis, also of wn, : arsed airport site is situat- ed south-east of this town, on the Jake front, and almost midway be- tween Oshawa and Whitby. It com- ises about 1,500 acres of practi- cally level land, and has an addition- al feature in that it is near the lake, and thus suitable for seaplane traffic. i o stated that it is the near- It oa te to Toronto. started the a resolution Government's This has endorsed by the County ll will be sent to the coun- cils of Oshawa and Toronto for ens dorsation before being presente Jo the Federal Government. The reso . tion passed by tho county counct ball rolling by passing calling to the Dominion That the Council of the County of Ontario hereby places itself on esord i ord w as being in unanimous aesord th by in requesting the Depart- wey of National Defense for the Je cation of the new airport at Whit hY, to take the place of Camp Bord o which the council understands wi shortly be abandoned by the Demin, jon Department, That the counci also desires to bring to the attention of the Honorable Minister of Nation al Defense the fact that at Whitby there appears to be one of the finest sites in Canada for the purpose npam- ed" Pr ---- HARDY FORGERIES don, Feb, 19. -- The Sunday iy reports that trade in for- geries of manuscripts of the late Thomas Hardy already has begun. One example is offered of a manu- script purchased in a noted Lon- don salesroom for a high price, the buyer taking it to a famous bookbinding house to have it elaboratetly bound. The head of the bookbinding house examining the poem, found several minor Jfaujte which certainly were not characteristic of Hardy, The bhind- er took the poem to the late nov- elists's literary executor who imme- diately declared it an "impudent forgery." Mr, Hardy's publish- they know forgeries ing on, and have been mak- io inquiries on their own maccount, in the hope of trapping the forgers. -- HARDWOOD FLOORS | Lald by Expert Mechanics. All floors finished like new. B. W HAYNES . 161 King St W Office phone 481; Res 180 R 2 | Whitby as Aviation Centre | Pass Resolution to Be For] . Pointing Out Advantages : TAILLESS ELEPHANTS ROAM AFRICAN WILDS Tntebbe, Uganda, East Africa, Feb. 20.--Elephants without tails are sometimes killed by hunters in this equatorial country where Geo. Eastman, American kodak million: aire, is hunting big game, The explanation is that the ele- phant's tail is a trophy, like jack- rabbit ears in Kansas, A hunter cuts off an elephant's tail as soon as his shot drops the beast. Sometimes elephants are not kill- ed outright, but are only stunned and seem dead for a considerable period of time. A stunned elephant sometimes recovers and rejoins his nerd-----minus his tail, One game ranger in the Uganda Government employ tells of killing a big bull elephant with fine tusks and cutting off the tail in the ap- proved manner. He prepared his lunch and ate it not far from the carcass. Then he moved on to deal with another log of elephants, ex- pecting to return to obtain the ivory tusks. But he eould not find his dead elephant when he got back. Six days later it was found nearly fif- teen miles from the spot where it had been shot, ROYAL BANK MANAGER DIES AT WALKERVILLE Windsor, Feb. 19--Clarence Hu- bert Pennefather, manager of the Walkerville branch of the Roval Bank of Canada, died last night at his home, following a brief {llne«s He was 64 years of age. Mr. Penne- father began his banking career 37 years ago at Stratford with the Bank of Montreal, which he later served at Fort Willlam, London, Ottawa, Quebec and Brockville, He joined the staff of the Union Bank next, and when that company merg- ed with the Royal Bank he was made manager of the hranch at Peterboro'. Mr, Pennefather came to the Border Cities from there three years ago, He was a member of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, Toronto; the Issex Gelf and Country Club, the Canadian Bankers' Association and had been active in the work of the Chamber of Commerce here, His brother, E. T. B, Pennefather, is Assistant Manager of Capitol Trust | Corporation of Ottawa, { Funeral services will be held Tuesday morning from St. Anne's Church, Walkerville, with inter- ment in St. Alphonsus Cemetery, Windnsor, 'By means of the Wenner salinity THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1928 ---- Helen of the Old House By HAROLD BELL WRIGHT. ; Synopsis. Millsburg is a little manufacturing city with a principal "Mill" whose wealthy owner is Adam Ward. His daughter, Helen, calls to see an old friend, whom she knew in her form- er home before the days of affluence. He is a crippled basket maker and known to put long distance telephone and telegraph lines out of commis sion, to blow out fuses, to cause sparks to fly and shock operators? This is another problem to be studied on the trip, with the possibility of importatnt changes in future radio broadcasting. The peculiarities of icebergs, al- ways a danger to the navigator in far northern waters, will be studied. bridge, an electrical device for measuring the amount of salt in sea water at various depths, it is pos sible to predict the route of these floating mountains of ice, The world's food supply may be augmented if the expedition finds that strange new substance, plank: ton, adaptable to human needs. Plankton is a term applied to the minute plant and animal organisms which are found suspended in prac tically all waters at all depths, It is the fundame~tal food supply of fish, Samples of his will be taken and analyzed in all climes. The primary object of the trip, for which the Carnegie was espec- ially built, is to study the peculiar ities of the compass, BONDING OF LAWYERS SOUGHT BY T. AND IL, COUNCIL Hamilton, Feb, 19.--With mem- bers citing alleged defalcations of H. D. Petrie, missing barrister, and another recent case in To- ronto, the Trades and Labor Coun- cil has proposed that all lawyers be' bonded for an adequate sum or that any other such means as will protect clients be adopted. The Council deputed Humphrey 8. Mitchell and H, G. Fester as a committee to confer with Hon. W. H. Price and Hon, Forbes God- frey with a view to having the Government take action in this matter and devise more satisfac- tory means of protecting the pub- lic in dealings with barristers, FOLKS RIDING New York, Feh. 20.--Who said the old bike was dead? There are 2,000,000 of them in use in the United States today, The Tin Lis- zie and all its cousins have driven the hike off the main streets in big cities, but there are as many wheels operating as there were twenty-five or thirty years ago, The old tendem, "the bicycle built for two," which lured many a carefree bachelor into marital harness in the last generation, is 2.0. 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TWO MILLION But the Old Tandem, Dad's Favorite, is Gone; High School Boys Are Cycle Riders; Started ! five years ago there were 500 bike THEM IN STATES Where "Necking" deader than King Tut, There has- n't been a tandem made {in this country since 1906, though Fred St, Onge, the dean of bike riders, says he saw one in use on an Iowa farm last year, The tandem led from her door to the altar, Ask dad, he knows, She climbed the front seat and if she were darinz exposed an inch or philosopher, Wallace Gordon, dwell- ing in a hut on the cliffs. Comment- ing on two little waifs, Bobby and Maggie, who had been 'o see the in- terpreter, an earnest discussion on the industrial unrest of Millsburg takes place, the Interpreter trying to explain sympathetically the viewpoint of the so-called socialists of the Flats' district, whom Helen characterizes as a menace -to the country. Helen feels keenly the industrial erisis in the community and the situation in her family circle, where her brother is opposed to the stern uncompromis- ing attitudg of their father toward the industrial unions. The Interpre- ter refers to Helen's youthful ro- mance with Charlie Martin, a neigh- bor in the old home, who, since the war, is a workman in her father's mill, but Helen replies that she never sees him now, Adam Ward still re- tains ownership of the old home ad- joining the Martins, but has let it fall into disrepair affording a distinct contrast to his mansion on the mil. Helen discovers her father in the garden apparently bowed dowp with mental anguish and looks on, undismayed, while he turns out the two little waifs, who have come to adore the place. CHAPTER VI ON THE OLD ROAD When Bobby and Maggie Whal- ey flew from the immediate vicin- ity of Adam Ward's estate, they were heside themselves with fear --blind, unreasoning, instinctive fear, There is a fear that is reason- able--that is born of an intelligent comprehension of the danger that menaces, and there is a fear that fs born of ignorance--of inability to understand the nature of the danger, These children of the Flats had nothing in their little lives by which they might know the owner of the Mill or visualize the world ip which the man for whom their father worked, lived To Bobhy and Magg'e the home of Adam Ward was a place of mys- tery, as far removed from the world of their actualities as any fabled castle in faryland could possibly be. Sanr Whaley's distorted views of all employers in the industrial world, and his fanatieal ideas of class loyalty, were Impressed with weird exa~geration upon the fertile minds of his children, Frem their father's conversation with his workmen neighbors, .and from the suggestive expressions and epith- ete which Sam had glean2d from the literatura upon which he fed his mind and which he used with such gusto, Bohby and Maggie had erathered the material out of which they had created an {imacinary monster, capable of destroying them with fiendish delight. They had seen ansry men too often to be much disturbed by mere human wrath, But, to them, this Adam Ward who had appeared so sud- denly from the shrubhery was more than a man; he was all that they hod been taught to he helieve ~--a hideous thin= of mora dreadfn) two of stocking, He climbed the back seat. Out throuzh the park and to that sheltered nook--but never mind that. Just ask dad if that wasn't where necking origin-' ated, The tandem was the inspiration of that old song, remember it? Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, d 0. I'm half crazy all for the love of you, We can't have a stylish' marriage; I can't afford a carriage; But won't you look sweet, upon the seat of a bicycle built for two, The tandem was introduced here 'rom Europe in 1893, three years fter J, B, Dunlap made the first pneumatic tire in Ireland. Thirty- manufacturers; today there are only eight, but they are turning out as many as the 500 did, Dad and mother used the bike in the old days, but it's the school, high schoo! and college boys and girls who ride them now. If the auto has driven the pedallers off the city streets it has made amends by making It possible for dad to live in the suburbs, where his boy and girl need a bike to get to school, There is no League of American Wheelmen, with 400,000 members, as there was a quarter century ago, but there is a growing territory in the South and Southwest where the youngsters are riding as much 8s ever. In France there are six bikes for every auto, and in Denmark one person in every three owns a wheel. Thirty years ago 8 bike was something of 8 luxury. A good one cost $125. Nowadays the average wheel costs $35. That is one rea- son why the bike is holding its own, As for the velocipede for the little fellows -- ghe same machine dad called & tricycle -- there are millions of them turned out every year. It is thus the boys and girls get their first love of the bike game. And, by the way, about one girl for every five boys rides 8 wheel. The percentage was nearer fifty in the old tandem days, Henry Ford may be given flam- ing youth a mice, soft seat for neck- ing after that drive into the coun- power and sinister purpose than could be imagined. With all their strength they ran down the old hill road toward the 'world of the Flats whera they be- longed. They dared not even look over their shoulders, he very eround seemed to drag at thelr feet to hold them back, Then little Magpie stumbled and fell. Her frantic screams reached Bobby, who was a few feet In advance, and the boy stopped instantly and fac- ed about, with terror ip his eyes but with evident determination to defend his sister at any cost. When he had pulled Maggie to her feet, and it was certain that there was nothing pursuing them, Bobby, boylike, laughed. 'Gee, and we made some gitaway, that trip! Gee, I'l] tell the world!" The little girl clung to her pro- tector, shaking with weariness and fear. "I--can't run another step," she gasped. "Will he come atter us here?" "Naw," returned the boy, with reassuring boldness, "he won't come this far. Yer just lay down in the grass, under this here tree, 'til yer cateh yer wind; then we'll make it on down to the Interpre- ter's--'tain't far to the stairs. You just take it easy. I'll watch," The soft grass and the cool shade were very pleasant after A ------------ Piles Go Quick Piles are caused by congestion of blood in the lower bowel. Only an internal remedy can remove the cause. That's why salves and ecu:- ting fall. Dr. Leonhardt's Hem- Roid, a harness 'tablet, succeeds, because it relieves this congestion and strengthens the affected parts. Hem-Roid has given quick, safe and lasting relief to thousands of Pile Sufferers. It will do the same for you or money back. Jury & Lovell Ltd, and druggists every- where sell Hem-Roid with this guarantee. try, but don't think for a minute that the tandem makers didn't do plenty for dad when they gave him the bicycle built for two. f Dad, the daring old rogue, has been knvwr to slide forward im the saddle and steal a kiss from ithe girl in front. | PHONE 378. NEXT THE POST OFFIO KARN THE DRUGGIST FOR SERVICE their wild run, and they were loath to go, even whep little Maggie had recovered from her exhaustion. Very soon, when no danger appear ed, the boy forgot to watch and be- gan an atimated discussion of their thrilling experience. But Maggie did not share her brother's boastful triumph. "Do you suppose," she said wistfully, "that he is like that to- the prin- cess lady?" Bobby shook his head doubtful- ly. "I don't know, ,Z Yer can't tell what he'd do to her if he took a «otion. Old Adam Ward would do anything that's mean, to anybody, no matter who. I'll bet The sound of someone approach- ing fron the direction of the castle interrupted Bobby's conjectures. Maggie would have made anoth- er frantic effort to escape, but the boy caught her roughly and drew her down beside him. 'No use to run--yer can't make it," he whis- pered. "Best lay low. An' don't yer dast even whimper.' Lying prone, they wormed them- selves into the tall grass, with the trunk of the tree between them and the road, until it would have heen a keen observer, indeed, who would have noticed them in pass- ing. They heard the approaching danger coming nearer and nearer, Tittle Maggie buried her face in the grass rootg to stifle a scream, Now it was on the other side of the tree. It was passing on. Sud- denly they almost buried them- selves In the ground in thelr efforts to lle close to the earth, The sound of the footsteps had ceased. For what seemed to them hours, the frightened children lay motion- 'ess, scarcely. daring to breathe, Then another sound came to their straining ears--a sound not unfa- miliar to the children of the Flats, A woman was weeping. Cautiously, the more courageous Robby raised his head until he could peer throurh the taneled stems and blades of the sheltering ~rass, A moment he looked, then «ently shook his sister's arm. Imi tating her brother's caution little 'Taggie ra'sed her frightened face Only a few steps awry, their prin- ress lady was crouching in the arass, with her face buried in her hands, crying bitterly, "Well, what do yer know about that?' whisnered Bobby. A moment lonzer they kept thelr nla"es, whispering in consultation, Then they rose quietly to their feet and, hand in hand, stood waiting, Helen had not consciously fol- lowed the children, Indeed, her mind was so occupied with her own troubled thoughts that she had forpotten the little vietims of her father's insane cruelty, Te avoid meeting her mother, as she fled from the scene of her father's madness, she had taken a course that led her toward the entrance to the 'estate, With - the one thought of eseaping from the in- visible presence of that hidden thing, she had left the grounds and followed the qu'et old road, When the storm of her grief had ralmed a little, the young woman raiged her head and saw Sam Whaley's dirty, ill-kept children eazing at her with wondering sym- nathy, It is not too much to say that Helen Ward was mrore embar- rased than she would have been had she found herself thus sudden- ly in the presence of royalty. "I am sorry you were frighten- ed," she said, hesitatinely. "I ean't believe he really would have hurt you." "Huh," grunted Bobby. darned glad we was outside of that there fence." Maggie's big eyes were elognent with compass'on, *Did--did he scare yer, too?" Helen held back her tears with an effort. "Yes, dear, he frighten- ed me, too--dreadfully." With shy friendliness, little Maggie drew closer. "Is he--is he sure 'nuff, yer father?" "Yes," returned Helen, my father." "Gee!" ejaculated Bobby. is he always like that?" "Oh, no, mdeed," returned Hal- en, quickly. "Father is really kind | and good, but he--he is sick now jand not wholly himself, yon see." | "Huh," said Bobby. "He didn't aet very sick to me. What's alin' him?" Helen answered slowly, "I---we don't just know what it is. The Aoctors say it is a nervous trou- ble." "An' does he--does he ever whip yer?" asked Maggie. In spite of the pain In her heart, Helen smiled. *"No-----never." "he Is "An' times," said Bobby. "But, gee! he ain't never like that. Dad, he wouldn't eare if somebody just looked into our yard. We wasn't | a-hurtin' nothin'--just a-lookin'-- that's all. Yer can't hurt nothin' just a lookin, can yer?" "I am sorry," said Helen. "Be yer happy?" asked Maggie, ddenly, with di rting direct- ness. "Why," replied Helen, What makes you ask such a funny question," (To be continued) WASHINGTON PLAYWRIGHT RELEASED AT VANCOUVER Vancouver, Feb. 19, -- On fn- structions of the British Consul- Genera In Shanghai, Deputy At- torney-General W. D. Carter, K. C., has ordered the release of Wil- liam Preston Gibson, playwright, of Washington, D.C., who was ar- rested here a few days ago on ar- rival from the Orient, on a charge of forgery at Shanghai. BR. T. Maitland, counsel for the accused, has been advised that the charge against Gibson has been with- "I'm ! "Our dad gits mad, too, some- RAINS IN 1927 MARK END OF STORM CYCLE London, Feb, 20.--*I think we are at the end of a cycle of wet years, and a change for the better is to be anticipated." This hopeful letion was ex- pressed by Sir Shaw, Brit- ish meteorological expert, in an in- terview recently in which he de- clared that the coming year would be a sunspot year with fair, warm weather, There will be a complete break-away from the dismal weather record of the last year, according to Sir Napier, The famous British meteorologist explained his views as follows: "Every eleven years the sun goes through a cycle in which fits activ- ity waxes and wanes from maxi- mum to minimum, When its activ- ity is greatest sunspots are most frequent, "The sun's radiation plays the predominant part in determining our weather conditions, Its peaks, for example, correspond with im- provements in the world's cotton crop." Sir Napier was pessimistic re- garding the possibility of reach- ing the point of infallibility in Weather predictions, He comment- "I am afraid the time is a long way off when any meteorologist will be able to say with certainty what kind of weather we are goin: to have in any particular yea: Science at present is only explorin; weather changes, Over vast areas of the earth we know nothing sys tematic of the weather, "Britain's conditions are the most difficuly of all because here our weather is evolved out of a perpetual battle which goes on be- tween the warm air from the Equator and the cold air from the North Pole," WINDSOR MARAUDER CHLOROFORMS WOMAN Windsor, Feb, 19.--Resisting a robbery attempt by a young man whom she found on her back porch at 10 o'clock last night, Mrs. Sarah Peters 42 years old of 426 Bridge Avenue, was chlor oformed and left unconscious alongside the telephone which she tried to use to call police headquarters. Mrs, Peters who had ben to the garage at the rear of the gar- en believed the man she saw on the porch was a delivery man. The stranger entered the kitchen with her and then asked, "Where is the money." Mrs. Peters explained that her money was upstairs. "All right, then, hurry up and get it," the marauder demanded, Instead of complying with the demand Mrs, Peters ran into the front hall and lifted the telephone receiver off the hook with the in- tention of ealling the police. Be- fore she could put {In the call, however, the stranger wrapped a chloroform-soaked rag around her mouth and nose and left her un- consicous, She was found a half hour later by a neighbor. BRANT SANATORIUM BOARD Brantford, Feb, 19,--~The Brant Sanatorium Board has pamed E. L. Cockshutt, Presient, and Dr. D. Dunton, Paris Vice-President, with K. V. Bunnell as Secretary. The sanatorium has every bed oc- cupied and a waiting list op d. Get this healthful habit! Eat two biscuits every d with hot milk on cold m 4 Contains all the bran you need * MADE AT NIAGARA FALLS - Distance now counts less than ever! NOTHER step forward in tele- phone service. The long distance operator now connects you with any telephone in a distant city -- usually while you remain on the line. Which makes long distance service almost as speedy as local, It saves time if you can give the operator the distant number, If you do not know it, she will gladly look it up and dsk you to make a rte of it for future calls, In the interest of greater speed in long distance service we will gladly make up a special directory of out- of-town numbers you frequently call, This will save your time and ours, and give you a speedier long distance service than you have ever known before, "Every Bell Telephone is a Long Distance Station." : H. M. BLACK Manager, | | Never again say-- Is that all you paid for this... ? Where did you ever find these... ? Why, it costs me nearly twice that much! Do tell me where you get them for that! How do you ever manage so well on so little? : But, aren't they awfully expensive? 1 wish I could do it. Read the advertisements. Know what you want before drawn, you go to buy. Get the most for your money by know- ing what manufacturers and merchants are offering. Advertisements will keep you abreast of the times, They will enable you to spend the family income wisely, {They will help you to live better at less cost. ¢ Then--when remarks similar to those above are made to you, pass on this good advice, for all who want the * est at the least cost--read advertisements. :