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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1929 " HVE A Page of Interesting News and Pictures of the British Isles Architects Fees Figure in Interesting Court Action London.--A vicar who sold his vicarage for $17,500 unsuccessfully lefended an action brought against him by Francis Witt, an architece and surveyor, of Finstock road, North'. Kensington, who claimed professional fees for the introduce tion of 3 purchaser and other work. The defendant, the Rev. Herbert B. Barnes, of Dalgarno-gardens, North Kensington, denied liability. .C. B. Marriott, K.C., for Mr. Witt," said that in 1927 Mr. Barnes instructed Mr. Witt, to sell St. Hel- en's Vicarage, St. Quintin Park, Kensington, at $17,500, the price Mr. Witt had valued it at. Mr. Witt was appointed sole agent. A Mr. Rea wrote to the vicar making an offer of $14,250, but the fact was not communicated to Mr. Witt. Mr. Rea later increased his offer, to $16,625. Cellar Tea Rooms Then one of the persons to whom Mr. Witt had sent particulars found a builder who made an offer of $17,600. Mr. Barnes' solicitors used the offer to induce Mr. Rea to raise hig offer to the same fig- ure and then completed the con- tract with him, Mr. "Witt, in cross-examination, agreed that though h» thought the } property was in a most deplorable state, he had described it as being well suited for a residential club, (laughter). "I could have made a palace of the place," he explained, would have been as an architect and not profitable. (laughter.) "In the city there are many coal cellars that have been converted into clubs. I have myself convert- ed three coal cellars into tea rooms, | with a marble staircase and brass handrails, so that you could enjoy a cup of tea in a coal cellar." (laughter). Mr. Justice Rowlatt gave jude- ment for Mr. Witt for the amount claimed, $395, with costs. The of- fer which was secured through Mr. Witt had been used by the vicar. That brought Mr. Witt within the rule which entitled an agent to his fees if he was prevented from earning them by the principal do- ing something he was not entitled to do. THE CHILDREN'S GREATEST JOY MOST POPULAR ZOO MEMBER STRUTS HIS STUFF + tion at the L don Zoo and is always "Big Jumbo" is the biggest the centre of a large and admiring throng when he takes a backload of hilarious travellers for a short trip around the grounds. Handsome Prize Offered For National Anthem For Wales Cardiff.--The literary committee of the Llanelly National Eisteddfod have accepted an offer of a £100 prize by a Welsh-American, whose name has not been disclosed, for a composition which 'may be used as a new national anthem for Wales, The donor is of the opinion, that "The 'March of the Men of Har- lech" would be a better air than the tune of 'Hen wlad fy nhadau" ("Land of my fathers"), and with words expressing more modern sen- timents he believes a new national anthem could be created for Wales which would be adopted by the na- tion. The literary committee were di- vided as to the advisability of ac- cepting the American's offer. One section expressed the view that the prize was out of propor- tion to others which are being of- fered for various competitions. It was pointed out that while £10 would be offered for three or four verses in this case, a money prize of only £25 is given with the chair and crown for the best poetical composition at the festival. Another offer of a prize of £100 comes from Fred Jones, another American-Welshman, one of the secretaries of J. J. Davies, minister of labor for the United States for the best historical essay on "Wales and Monmouthshire and their pros- pects as regards home rule." POLICEMAN HAS T0 SATISFY CURIOUS Viscount Byng Relates Ex- . periences of One Constable London. -- Viscount Byng of Vimy, chief commissioner of Met- ropolitan Police presiding at the an- nual meeting of the Police Seaside Home at Hove, related the following story: "While a police constable was standing on point duty at the Marble Arch," he said, "an aeroplane passed overhead. Three people came to him and asked him what it was. Four people wanted to know where it came from. Four people demanded that they should be told where it was go- ing, and seven more people asked why it was there at all. "And," added his lordship, 'every one of these eighteen inquirers were sent 'away satisfied. What the po- liceman said I don't know, but he did what I could never have done my- self--answered eighteen people con- cerning what he did not know him- self." Railway Ties Burn Lindsay.--Three or four hun- dred railway ties, owned by the Canadian National Railways, were burned yesterday as they were pil- ed up high alongsidethe Douglas Elevator at Omemee. The fire was started by a grass fire, which was in charge of section men. "but that | WIFE WHO REFUSES T0 GO I5 PROBLEM Separation Order Defied -- Lock Her Out, Says Court London.--If a married woman refuses to leave her husband after the has obtained a separation or- 'der against her, what can the hus- band do in the matter? Asked to solve this new domes tic problem recently the Maryle- bone Police Court magistrate cone fessed that as far as he could see the only remedy for the husband | was to turn his wife out by fores. The question was raised by Wil liam Fisk, who told Mr. Bingley he had obtained a separation order against hig wife on the ground that she was an habitual drunkard. "But she refuses to go,"" he said, "and I don't know what to do. I don't want to turn her out." Mr. Bingley pointed out that une der the Act the separation order had ceased to have effect as the woman had continued to live with her husband for three months after it was made. Mr. Bingley assured the man of his sympathy, and added: "I am afraid, to be rather brutal, your only course is to chuck her out-- lock her out." As for the allow- ance granted to the wife under the order, of course that had come to an end with the order. Subsequently the wife came be- fore the court on a charge of drunkenness and she added to the difficulty of the problem by claim- ing that the home was hers and that having growing daughters her place was with them. MISPLACED POINT IN PRESCRIPTION CAUSE OF DEATH Three Boys Given Ten Times Desired Quantity of Drug London.--An inquest held here recently into the deaths of three boys who came up to London from Sudbury to be treated for ring- worm last month, brought out in the course of testimony that a mis- placed decimal point in a prescrip tion had caused the fatalities. The boys, Charles, Leslie and John Therpe, aged 10, 7, and 5 years respectively died in mysteri- ous circumstances at the hospital to which they applied. The jury decided that they had died from poison accidentally ad- ministered. The testimony showed that a mistake made in the calcula- tion of the quantity of a drug re- sulted in the oldest child being giv- en 2.5 grammes instead of .25 tne other also being given proportion- ately 10 times the desired qu2n- tity. MOVING MOUNT Village Menaced by Slides in South Wales. Cardiff.--The moving mountain at Llanhilleth (Monmouthshire) 1s again causing considerable alarm to the inhabitants of Blaencriffin road, in which there ate 70 colli- ers' cottages. These houses are believed to be in imminent danger, and the resi. dents are seeking accommodation elsewhere, though this is difficult to find. New fissures are appear- ing in the walls, and the frontages have moved many degrees frou the perpendicular. Hundreds of tons of earth, rock and stones have, in falling, swept away one of the retaining walls, and recently loud rumbling noises preceded the fall of more 'debris, which blocked outhouse doors so that they could not be opened, and twisted and broke service pipes. Retaining wallsre the only pro- tection for the uses from the falls of debris, it is feared that these walls cantet stand much longer. ADVERTISE-OR-FAIL IS SLOGAN TODAY London,--W. Buchanan-Taylor, advertising and publicity manager of J. Lyons and Co., Ltd., told the Cardiff Publicity Club this week that advertising should be regard- ed as an overhead charge, and not as a necessary evil, Many business people in this country had failed to understand that advertising and salesmanship were irrevocably allied, and that unless the two go hand-in-hand one or the other may fail. Advertising was the trumpeter of salesmanship, and we had no greater herald than the Prince of Wales. He had done more in his talk on salesmanship than all the politicians and statesmen had ever thought of doing. _ SPEED STILL AIM OF BRITISH MOTORISTS ANOTHER ENGLISHMAN STARTS SETTING AUTOMOBILE SPEED RECORDS Kaye Don, the famous record breaker, in action during the 160 miles per hour short handicap on his six-cylinder Sunbeam at Brooklands on Easter Monday. Streets Upon London.--The newest danger of cities, a microbe that lives in the ground beneath them and does its best to blow them up, is suspected in London by the dis- tinguished British biologist, Pro- fessor J. S. Haldane, as an explana- tion of a mysterious explosion which tore up long sections of street pacing in the Holborn dis- J trict last December. That explosion undoubtedly was caused by a gas of some kind which collected in conduits and manholes underneath the street and explod- ed violently when one of the man- holes was opened and -a light struck inside it. The problem with which London authorities are now wrestling is to decide where the explosive gas came from. Called as an expert witness be- cause of his long experience with Blames Blowing Up of London Small Microbes such explosive gases in mines and elsewhere, Professor Haldane sug- gested his startling microbe the- ory of the origin of the gas. It is well known, he said, that microbes which live in the mud of swamps are able to manufacture the gas called methane, which ex- plodes violently when mixed with air an. touched off by a match or a spark. This is the "marsh gas" which is .,ometimes found in mines. It is possible, the distinguished bi- ologist believes, that these same microbes live in vast nume bers, in the moist, dirty sub- soil of a city and slowly produce this same explosive gas. Pavements keep the gas from escaping into the air. Accordingly, it may aceumu- late in seldom-opened conduits or manholes, prepared to send the whole street skyward if someone incautiously introduces a light. Dublin.--Articles, published in the Britsh Press, which asserted that "Disturbed conditions" in Ire- land were likely to react unfavor- ably on American and British tour- ists have caused widespread annoy- ance in Ireland, especially among associations which would benefit by tourist trade. The British newspapers appar- ently referred to the recent so-call- ed gunman menace, which, the i United Press has learned from au- | thoritative sources, was confined to a limited number of known extrem- ists. Ireland Annoyed by Published Reports of Disturbed Country The extremists have been dis- persed as the result of roundups ordered by the Government and prosecutions under the Firearms" Act, it was said. Officials of the Tourist Associa- tion, the Horseshow Society, the Automobile Club and even some Government officials expressed re- sentment at the British newspaper articles, fearing they would affect American tourist invasion begin- ing in June, attendance at the Ine ternational Motor Race at Phoenix Park, Dublin, in July, and the Balls Bridge Horse Show in August. British Air Mi Ministry sl Wife Sit for First Dual In- terview and Find Several Things on Which They Agree--Future of Avia- tion London, -- Air Minister Sir Samuel Heare, known by his colleagues in the Cabinet as "Fly- ing Sam," and his wife, Lady Hoare, are agreed that flying is "a glorious feeling." 'Their taste is also similar in most artistic mat- ters. Only on the subject of musie do their opinions differ more or less radically. This they were good enough to explain to the United Press corres- pondent who visited them at their magnificent Chelsea residence fo the first "dual interview" whicl they ever granted. The sight of a five-valve portable wireless set in one room caused the correspondent io ask his hosts if they liked mu- sic: "Very much indeed," replied Lady Hoare, as Sir Samuel smiled affirmatively. "Wagner?" suggestion. "No," replied Sir Samuel with determination, and then he laugm~ ed wholeheartedly as Lady Hoare, on the contrary, vaunted her favor- ite composer. "1 like Wagner's solidity," she sald. "But 1," interjected Sir Samuel, "think that he is not sincere. He is artificial. I much prefer Mozart." on Jazz "What about jazz?" was the next question. "Yes," replied the Secretary of State emphatically. 'I do enjoy it occasionally, I like the rhythm." And Lady Hoare agreed. Aviation, however, was the main subject of conversation. Both Sir Samuel and Lady Hoare willingly described - their sensations in fly- ing. "Flying," said the Secretary of State for Air, "develops man's in- herent love for nature. It seems to me that it is something which young painters should experience in their student days because it would give them a different point of view in art. Indeed, the earth viewed from the air is far more beautiful in some cases than when it is seen from land. The perspec- tive is marvelous. Superb color schemes are visible with which the average terrestrian is not familiar. Hidden beauties are revealed which enchant one." As the Minister spoke, Lady Hoare nodded her agreement. Then, she too described her impres- sions from the airplane: "Sir Samuel," she commenced, "is right," Flying," she added, "is a glorious feeling. If you want to gain an idea how the earth looks from the air, climb to the summit of some tall mountain like, for in- stance, one of the Rockies. You will get the same ravishing view of the scenery below as you would if you saw it from an airplane, Only it is still more beautiful than if seen from the top of the moun- tain. was the following Lady Maud a Pioneer "And what an extraordinary feel- ing it is when you pass from a per- fectly clear atmosphere into clouds. Nothing like it can be experienced on land. At first you see some- thing which looks like a solid mass into which you are going to crash. But you don't seem to 'hit' it. You go right 'through' it. Then it is as thofgh smoke were driving past you." Lady Hoare, besides being one of Britain's most distinguished host- esses, is a pioneer "air passenger." During the past five years she has Find Flying Easiest Way of Travel and "Pleasing to Eye" town many thousands of miles with the Secretary of State for Air, and her observations during the various flights upon which she ac- companied her husband were in- valuable to him. She was the first woman to accomplish a flight from Britain to India, during which Sir Samuel wrote his now famous book "India by Air," partly from the notes taken for him by Lady Hoare, READABLE WRITING WHAT WORLD NEEDS London Store Executives Declare Present System is Costly London. -- Some inventive psychologist can make mil- lions for department stores, if not for himself, by devising a new kind of handwriting for sales slips and similar records; a handwrit- ing which everybody can learn to write clearly and which nobody can possibly misread. So says P. A. Best, managing director of Schoolbred's, in Lon- don, in contributing to a news- paper discussion of the vast money losses due to bad handwriting be- gun by another London store executive, Richard Burbridge, of Harrods. The manager of a retail store is confronted, Mr. Best maintains, by a distressing dilemma. On the one hand he can allow the daily mul- titude of mistakes in handwriting to continue and can pay the cost of correcting them afterward. On the other hand, he can allow the daily multitude of mistakes in handwriting to continue and can pay the cost of correcting them afterwards. On the other hand, he can insist on better handwriling from his employes, but that will be almost equally costly, for each employe will take more time over each transaction and will do less work. To employ only people who can write both legibly and quickly is impossible because so few such people exist. Fewer still are being trained by present-day school in- struction in handwriting. The only really practicable solution, Mr. Best believes, is for someone to devise a new system of handwrit- ing, perhaps entirely different from the present system, which can be taught successfully in the schools and which even careless people can learn to write quickly and clearly. Anyone who can devise such a system will be as great a bene- factor to retail business, the Lon- don executives insist, as the inven- tor of the typewriter was to busi- ness in general. WAGES OF BRITISH WOOL-WORKERS CUT Dewsbury, Yorkshire--Workers on heavy woollens employed in 15 mills have been advised by the trade union to accept proposed wage reductions under protest. Nearly 8,000 workers are affected and the case is watched as a prece- dent for the whole industry. The workers voted by a small margin to hand in notices stopping work in protest, the vote being 2,- 304 to 2,187, but in view of the narrow majority in favor of a walk-out, acceptance of the reduc- tions is expected. Retiring after 26 years' service. Detective-Sergeant E. Young has been presented with a gold watch by his colleagues at Woolwich. DIGESTION RUINED BY NAGGING HABIT English Expert Talks on Poisonous Effect of Lost Temper London,--"One is just as likely to have dyspepsia from the nage ging of a wife or husband as from a gastric ulcer," said Dr. Bernard Hollander in an address at the Southplace Ethical Society's meet ing recently, Digestion, he said, was dependent on the mental state Simos as much as any other fac- or. "Often it is not real misfortune which disturbs the health," he de- clared, "but the trifling nothings, the petty annoyances, and the pin- pricks of life which cause emotion al reactions and, by their constant repetition, produce nervous exhause tion. Hope and Courage "The general nutrition of the body is influenced by our emotions. Anxiety emaciates {its victims; faith, hope and courage assist in strengthening the body. "The man of violent temper gives himself a dose of poison, just as if he had swallowed it. Similar- ly the toxin produced by fear act- ing on the brain and sympathetic ful poisons {introduced into the blood." He said to sufferers from sleep- lessness: "Do not carry the worries of the day to bed and review them there. People should keep their bedrooms 'holy.' I mean that all business of the day and all dis- turbing elements should be settled before entering the bedroom." PLANS OF PRINCE ON NEW RESIDENCE UPSET BY DUTIES Not Known When He Will Move to Marlborough House London.--The Prince of Wales' "moving day" has been postponed indefinitely. The Prince has long been prepar- ing to move from York House, St. James' Palace, just across the street to Marlborough House, for- merly occupied by King George and King Edward. January, February and March have all been reported as tne months in which he intended to go. Although now everything is ready for his reception, he has once more postponed the actual shift, Increased Duties Officials refused to deny or con- firm whether his jncreased duties as deputy for his father, King George, which have been brought about by the King's illness and the length of time which it will take him to recover from it, are the cause of this delay. Yet it is generally believed that the Prince does not care to be con- cezied in all the turmoil of moving and settling down in new quarters while his time is so very much oc- cupied with affairs of state. As long ago as last July Marl- borough House was ready for the Prince of Wales. It has been re- painted and redecorated. New plumbing and heating arrange- ments were installed, the central heating system was extended, and radiators introduced. The stables which formerly housed the horses and carriages of King George and King Edward have now been con- verted into modern garages, while the horses are now stabled on the first floor over the garages, being taken up an inclined plane to their boxes. 200-Room House Marlborough House, altogether contains 200 rooms, but at the most the Prince will occupy only six of them, The remainder will be used by members of his entour- age and servants, and by visitors. Many of them will probably never be used at all, for it would be beyond the Prince's means to maintain a household on the same scale as his father and grandfather. Queen Mary, like the good nfotn- er and housekeeper she is, has been very interested in the preparation of the Prince's suite at' Marlbur- ough House, and has, as often as her presence at the King's bea- side allowed, visited her son's new home personally to supervise its arrangement. The Prince will occupy two bed- rooms and a sitting room, kitchen, bath and a very complete library. Rumors that he intended to take a bride with him when he-enterea nis new home have thus been refuted. This "flat" would hardly be large enough for the new Princess of Wales, whoever she might be. system is one of the most power- * London.--Coincident with the arrival of the first air mail and' passenger 'plane from India at' Croydon airdrome yésterday, it was learned that the British, Air Min- istry is scanning various plans with' a view to constructing flying boats more than double the size of an existing at present. The possibilities of inter-Empire travel which such craft would open up are said to be the incentive on which the aeronautical experts' cal- culations are based, A vision of augmenting Great Britain's pre- ponderance in merchant marine is guiding these latest plans, to as- sure that Britannia will rule not only the waves, but the winds. The details of the project have not yet been revealed, but the figure of 100 tons is being mentioned. Seaplane Weighing 100 Tons Present Objective in Biitain There were five passengers and 15,000 letters aboard the big Arm- strong-Siddeley air liner when she skimmed' over Croydon, 'landing field yesterday, exactly two min- utes. aliead of schedule, on the last lap of the 6,000-mile journey from ¥ |India. Four of the passengers came all' the way from India, wearing their topees and summery clothes. The passengers were Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary of State for Air, who caught the air mail in Egypt; Viscount Chetwynd, vice-chairman of the Imperial Airways, and his 20-year-old daughter, the Hon. Mary Diana Eve; Air Marshal Sir Geoffrey Salmond, and Air Viee- Marshal Sir Vyell Vyvyan. "It was a lovely trip--perfectly wonderful," the Viscount's daugh- ter cried to her waiting friends. BRITISH PAGE 'BOB' TO QUIT Nweastle.--Robert Smillie, So- cialist M. P. for Morpeth, intimated in a letter read at a meeting of Northumberland Miners'. Associa- tion execntive here recently that he will retire from parliament at the general election, The letter stated: "Advancing age and physical infirmity make it impossible for me to give the ser- vices to Morpeth or the country I should like to give." TRYING TO WIN PARISIAN LAURELS the | dress. AN ENGLISHMAN DICTATES THE STYLES Norman Hartnell, an English University graduate, has become one of s of Europe and is shown working on a court For King at London.--The "Daily Express", says that the Prince of Wales will be installed as immediate Past Mas- ter of a new Masonic lodge for bar- risters of the Middle Temple. A warrant for the establishment of the lodge has been granted by the Grand Lodge of England. Mem- bership will be confined to mem- bers of the Middle Temple, Several judges and a number of prominent King's Counsel who are masons Prince of Wales Will Act Courts in May have agreed already to join their special Inn lodge. The Prince of Wales is a' Bench- er of the Middle Temple. No date has yet been fixed for the consecration of the lodge, as the engagemnts of the Prince of Wales depend on the King's health. Only one other Inn--Gray"s Inn --has a special lodge, and this will act as the "parent" body to the Middle Temple lodge. FINE GIFT MADE Lord Rothermere Donates $250,000 to Children's Cause London,--Lord Rothermere has once again demonstrated his inter- est in the welfare of children. He hag deposited $250,000 toward the $2,625,000 necessary for the pur- chase of the London Foundling es- tate so as to preserve it as a huge playground for children in the heart of London. He has also un- dertaken to pay the interest on the balance of the sum until the mid- dle of 1931 and to contribute a FOR PLAYGROUND further $250,000 toward the pure chase. Some time ago Lord Rothermeré saved a large area in Greenwich for a locality for children. SEES MOUSE, FALLS, LOSES LEG, DIES London,--A distressing accident occurred at Orchardton Farm Gare lieston, recently, whereby Mrs. Shillan, wife of John Shillan, farm worker, Kirkinner, met her death. She had been engaged in thresh ing operations, and when work was almost finished she was sweeping up. Suddenly a mouse appeared and startled the woman, who, in her excitement, stepped back into the mill, her leg being severed at the thigh, Death followed soon af- terwards. The exceptional number of 256 wickets in a season were recorded at Chertsey Cricket Club's meeting to G. Vickery, who in addition scor- ed 1, 1,262 runs. A BRITISH MONSTER OF THE AIR -- wn pr CENTURIES AFTERWARD THE ENGLISHMEN SEEK A NEW ROUTE TO INDIA Long ago navigators sought a short route to India by sea, now they take to the air for the samepurpuse. City of Glasgow before leaving Croydon on inaugural 5,000-mile flight to The India.