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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1929 Plunges Into River After Bridge Collapses During Storm A whshied-out culvert of the Markham-Brooklih road, about a quarter of & safle south of Markham nearly claimed two lives when, shortly after midnight, & sedan, drivén by Grant Nighswander, and carrying Marjorie Armstrong, 18, Both of Mérkham, plunged from the road into & swollen stream. Fortdnately, MAN AND GIRL EXTHIUATE THEMSELVES AND CLAMBER UP BANK the aito rémainéd entangled in the debris of thé collapsed bfidge long énough for the man and girl to extricate themselves and clamber up the bank to Immediately followifig this, however, the motor car slipped into the swollen waters; being swept hundreds of feet downstream. safely. TO SAFETY BEFORE MACHINE 18 reproduced here, were taken by a Star crete debris shown. (2) 18 a closé-up The photographs, the collapsed culvert and the wide road cut taken from the south. approached ffom the left, tumbled down ips slope and was caught in the con- WASHED DOWNSTREAM photographer and show: (1) a view ot The ear of the automobile, lying overturned a highway from the southeast. photographer. £ Lae car would approach as it coming toward th Miss Armstrong, who was seriously injured, was thken $0 Ber arepts' home a short distance away by Nighswander, and 1atér was ne by wagon and ambulance to the Wellesley hospital in Toronto, big 4a] few hundred feet downstream, and (3) shows a view of the Markham-Brooklin | being treatéd for face cuts, body bruises and shotk. Meet Death When Auto Plunges Over Bridge East of Oshawa Early This Morning 3 SRO 0 S50 7 WILKINS WILL USE | THERMIT IN ARCTIC Experiments Carried Out on St. Lawrence for Polar Explorer SUBMARINE TRIP New York, Apr. 6.--The propos- ed submarine voyage across the Arctie Ocean considered by Captain Sir Hubert Wilkins, Polar explorer, appears to be assured following a conference recently in which it was declared feasible to equip the sub- marine boat by June 1. Command- er Sloan Danenhower, who with simon Lake owns the undersea craft to be used, said that the trip would be made during the month of July, according to tentative plans. Those interested in the voyage are in touch with experts at Mec- Gill University, Montreal, who are experimenting on the ice of the St. Lawrence river with thermit, a chemical preparation which has tremendous melting power. A sup- ply of thermit will be taken by the explorers for use in case of an em- ergency arising through the ice. Danenhower conferred with George Palmer Patnam, publisher, who is supervising the matter of equipment, and representatives of battery and engine makers Mon- day. Planned alterations and mechan- ical equipping can be completed by June 1, it was learned, so that the vessel could proceed to Spitzbergen. About two weeks would be al- lowed there for final preparations, and then the submarine, with a personnel of ten men, would dive under the ice on July 1, expecting to reach Point Barrow, Alaska, 30 days later, after a trip of 2,000 miles beneath the Arctic ice pack and across the North Pole, Captain Wilking made the same journey last year by airplane. Built in 19006 The submarine selected for tue daring undertaking was construct ed in 1906 by the Electro-Torpedo Boat Company, but because it did not meet the appropriation specifi cations for speed, was never put in- to service, but remained the prop- erty of the company, and laid on the ways as an experiment craft. The Lake-Danenhower Company purchased the vessel two years ag0 at the time of the S-4 disaster, and reconditioned it for rescue and sal- vage work. Therefore, it is partly adapted for the needs of the North Pole trip. An oil engine will replace the present gasoline engine on the sub- marine and storage batteries of a special design creating greater storage capacity will be substitut- ed for the batteries now in use. For use in ice breaking, what Cap- tain Wilkins calls a "jumper bow," which is a false or super-bow, will be built over the real bow and the conning tower. The craft is already equipped with a forward diving compart ment for rescue work, and this can be used by divers in planting char- ges in ice to effect an opening or for other reasons, according to Da nenhower. Arctic explorers say that ice Two persons lost their lives about 1 o'clock this morning when a touring car plunged over a wrecked bridge mear Harmony, about one mile east of The persons who lost their lives were Walter Northrup and Miss Two sons of Walter Northrup, Harry, 16, and Stanley, 18, were saved from the roaring torrent, resulting from the torrential rain. The travellers had gone one mile from Oshawa on their way to Peter- boro, when they were forced to turn back. Oshawa. Helen Wright of Peterboro. ar TWO YOUTHS DRIVING WITH FATHER SAVED FROM FLOOD-SWOLLEN had already safely passed over, that the structure gave way. The stream is ordinarily a mere rivulet, but rose some 18 feet during the heavy rain, Search for the body of Miss Wright 1s still going on. Photograph (1) is a view of wrecked bridge from below the highway; (2) view showing the car whith went down with the fall of the bridge. The car was swept down the stream about 200 yards, turning over and over and finally landing on its wheels in a shallow spot. All through the night the headlights of the car cast a gleam over the RIVER desolate scene, wrecked bridge looking east; (4) shows the body of Walter Northrup, and continued burning il late this morning; (3) view of} | father! of the two boys who were saved, being carried over the gap in the highway, by ropes in ed bridge. yards below; the hands of the Oshawa firemen; (5) another view of the wreck Mr. Northrupt's body had just been taken from the water 100 (6) members of the Oshawa fire brigade, who recovered the body of Walter Northrup; Fire Chief Elliott, Lieut. Oster, Willlam Logeman and George Wilson, and Police Constable England, i cracks, leaving open water in tne great ice sheet, occur frequently, and are never more than fifty miles apart, so the submarine can rise to the surface, declared Danenhow- er. Captain Wilkins expects to av crage more than 60 miles each day, remaining under water about 14 hours out of every 24, and coming to the surface to recharge the bate teries during the other ten hours. Captain Wilkins purposes on the underwater trip across the Arctic to makea study of the ocean depth, ice drift and ocean currents in North Polar regions. Perry report ed 3,000 feet soundings at the Pole and no bottom. : The explorer believes the trip will enable him to return 'in time to continue his Antarctic observa- tions. Yesterday he was reported to have departed by airplane for the Pacific coast to make certain arrangements there in connection with his voyage. ANCIENT CLUB IN OLD VILLAGE Favorite Meeting Place of Young Bloods Was Church Tower London, April 6.--The Royal So- ciety of Arts have just bought our village, to prevent it from being destroyed by the rush of civiliza- tion, writes an inhabitant of West Wycombe (Bucks), in a London newspaper. On the whole, we are rather glad, for although we have not got any gas supply or any electricity and we have to get our water from wells or a pump, there is some ad- vantage in having to pay only 8s. a month for the rent of a house. As one of the oldest inhabitants sald, we just live natural "Though at times I laugh when London folk brag about their night clubs. Why, we had one here cen- turies ago! as they liked without any D.O.R.A. to stop them. A favorite meet- ing-place for the club was at the top of our parish church tower. "This parish church 700 feet up on a hill, is a rare 'un to climb up for us old folk, but we have to when we want to get married or buried. They close it every winter It was in recrossing a bridge they "The Hell Fire Club they called [kept on making them.. Didn't mat- it, where all the young bloods did |ter to us whether trains came, or And that's green right enough. West Wy- our philosophy in combe." because there is no heating appara- tus. . "But, you know, we never really feared for the future. We have al- ways made chairs here and we have A POLISH FOR WINDOWS Mix together equal parts ot whiting, coal oil and glycerine. or motorcars or tele- Make this into a paste of meurum phones. We went on with chair- making. And with all the clever. | consistency and apply it to the ness in the world nobody yet has | windows. Allow it to dry thor- been clever enough to invent any~| oughly, then polish off with a soft thing that would take the place of | duster. The resulting polish win a chair. last for some time under ordinary "The grass looks brown togay / conditions, and the windows will after the winter, but it'll come | not hecome steamy. bicycles WOMAN'S PAGE . A TOAST Here's to Hope!---child of Care, And pretty sister of Despair. Here's hoping that Hope's children shan't Take after their Grandma or Aunt. A TEMPORARY WINDOW REPAIR If a pane ot glass is broken by a stone and it is impossible to get it repaired at once, an easy and sat- isfactory repair may be made by taking the glass out or a photo- graph or picture frame, smearing it with undiluted water-glass and pressing it gently but firmly over the hole. This will keep out the rain for several days. His thoughts were slow: his words 'Were few, and never known to glisten, . . . He wag a joy to all his friends. . You shéuld have heard him listen. "Have you heard that your friend Meyer has become rich av a single stroke?" "No. How did it happen?" "His uncle had it." WATER SIX FEET DEEP HOLDS UP ALL TRA rhe heavy rains of yesterday have course for over a hundred yards. Pic- raging torrent, and sweeps through o swollen Green river and Pickering [ture No. 1 shows the bridge over the |the Rouge Valley carrying small trees reek that they have overflown thelr | Rouge river. The stream, ordinarily a land other debris along with it. The ¢ poles shown in the picture anks and spread to the west of their [gentle trickle, ha. now = become a |teleph FFIC are in danger of being broken by the force of the current. No. 2 shows the Kingston highway at a point 100 yasds west of the bridge at Pickering creek, in their cars, Here the water was six feet d early to-day, and many motorists their way home from a dance at | ronto, were forced to spend the nf TINVENTR'S STORY OF THE HELICOGYRE Young Tt=lian Engineer Had Brain Wave in Bed 4 London, April 8.--The romance of the birth and growth of the he- licogvre, the revolutionary flyieg machine which ig being built at i Cowes, Isle of Wight, to the order of the Air Ministry, was described to a reporter recently by its in- ventgr, Signor Vittorio Isacco, sn Italian eneineer. The helicogvre is constructed to ascend vertically like a lift; hover motionless in midair; and rise trom and land on & space no bigger than the roof of a building. Signor Isacco, a slim young man with flashing eves, said. | f am the only engineer in the world, so far as I know, who bas studied the problem of vertical flight exclusively for 12 years, In 1917, after finishing my studies in France as an electrical engineer, I met M. Peseara, the authority on vertical flight, and agreed to hel him in the calculations and theor« ies of helicopter flight. In 1918 we began to dulld ma- chines. three of which were for the Trench Government. Pt thongh we made gmall flights with them, thev had not the nroner sta. bility. and tho gears which trane- mitted the nower from an engine in the fuselaze to the sustaining propeller continually hroke. Eiht Vears' Stndv chief problam and nivht and dav. TRieht vears of my lite--from 1918 to 1928---were er. tirelv devoted to the nroblem of vertical flying, but all attempts. failed. T decided tn sive it up and look for other work. T made up my mind however. tn write of anr exveri- ments In the hope that it would be of use to others. One morning in Paris T wae Iv tne in hed thinking over thie hook when in a flash, as it were of light- nire, the cause of onr continual fallures eama to me. At once I set about working out the formula of my new thaorv--that Instaad of fixing In the fuselage the engine that gnopifes the power to the sus tatnine propsller small engines shevld he fixed to the propeller 9t- - self. 2 For three months T stndted hard, working out every detail, Mv next Aifentr was to pet financial back. ine. This T found a great prob- lem. But at last T hnilt a machine which rose up and down in a shed. IT built for the French Covern- ment a lar~er machina. which fis now readv for tests. This machine, however, I= built for one nerson, whereas the British machine is hhnilt for two. Each of the four blndes on the sustalnine propeller of the British machine has a small en=ine, - . M. Tsacco sald that the manshine fs canable of ahout 75 miles an hour at forward speed and will rire vertically. at the rate of four yards a second from the ground, this speed decreasing' as the mach'ne rises. oT rk Pr TE TI PRT ondf NE RT a J pl 08 oe Bed Gs chide £1 90 Ee BID De D i & g 4 Be T saw that thess genrs wera thé: .v, T studfed fit -.; ror Hua eut 59