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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, _ a hh a Firs Ty Trials of Speed Will Be Great Attraction at the 3 The trials' of speed promise to be one of the 'Biggest attractions at the Oshawa Fair this year, The fair directors &ave increased the purses to a total of $1,600, four rages with purses of $400 each, be- ing on the cards," and the attrac- tion of the larger prizes is sure to bring to this city some of the best trotters and pacers in tne province. On Wednesday, Sept. 11; the second day of the fair, a 2.18 pace and a 2.30 pace will be run. On Thursday, the card calls for a 2.12 pace and a 2.18 trot. Trotters may ~ Oshawa Fair Next Week enter 'pacing classes and are allow- éd tive seconds. The $400 purse for each race will be divided $200, $100, $60, and $40, with free en- tranee and no deductions. Free straw will be provided for the Horses. Rules of the Canadian National Trotting and Pacing Harness Horse Association will govern the races. All races are mile heats, three iu five, five to enter, four to start. Entries close Sept. 10, and will be received by V. B. Woodruff, 98 King street east, Oshawa, chair- man of the Racing Committee of the Oshawa Fair, SEED POTATOES "DECENE IN MAINE Thirty-four Per "Cent. Less Acreage Than Last Year i Portland, Me., Sept. 6--The- New England crop Reporting Service re- ports that although the certified seed potato acreage in Maine this year is 34 per cent less than last ycar the outlook at the present time: is for good yields on this reduced acreage. The planted acreage of sweet corn for canning has increased this year in Maine, however, the report states. In 1928, 12,091 acres of all varieties were planted in this State, while 15,- 628 acres are devoted to production for canning this year. Maine is the largest New England canning corn producer. ; 5 a. Reports from inspection officials in the States and Provinces of Canada, received here, indicate that all have shared in the decline of potato acre- age particularly. for seed production. Last year 23,383 acres were entered by this State for certification and 16/~ 847 passed final inspection. The de- crease in atreage entered this, year of 'Cobblers and Spaulding Rose is particularly noticeable, "The crop reporting service records show that certified seed potato acre- age is reduced in New, Hampshire by 59 per cent; Vermont, 16 per cent; Néw York one per cent. Consolation is offered in the expressed belief that weather conditions to date have been réasonably favorable to a good yield of 'certified seed potatpes in most of the states... Td Eiaia sweet \cort packers report that"19,535 acres af sweet corn for canning were planted 'this year, as compared to 15,707 acres last year and 12,099 in 1927, Saar prices for the 1928 pack have stimulated this further ingrease in However harvested acreage considerably less than the planted acreage, Out of the total planted acreage of 1928, only 13,820 acres were finally harvested, and the 1929 acreage may be expected to show a similar shrinkage, according to the Federal government reports, : Crop reporting figures reveal. that golden bantam and other yellow va- rieties predominate, having increased 27 per cent. over last year. Maine has 10,447 acres of golden bantam and other yellow corn planted this year, compared with 7,611 last year. In 1928 4,480 acres of Crosby or white corn were planted while this yéar 'the acreage has only increased to 5,181. Figures by countries show that the Country's corn crop, based 'on conditions of the crop on August 1, should be 696,7000 tons or 30 per cent larger than the 1928 final production, and six per cent larger than the aver- age production of the past five years, SIX NEW AIRWAYS BEING SURVEYED Experts in U.S. Mapping Routes and Selecting 'Landing Fields acreage, will be Washington, D. C, ¢Spt. 6 -- Six new airways for the rapidly develop- ing aviation transportation lines over the country are being surveyed by the Commerce Department. Experts are mapping routes, selecting landing fields and sites for aero-light beacons for night flying, and emergency land- ing fields near cities along the route. The airways being surveyed extend from Washington to Cleveland, Ohio; Brownsville, Texas to New Orleans, La.; Fort Worth, Texas to Browns. ville, Texas; Miami, Florida, to At- lanta, Ga.; Portland, Oregon, to Pas- Stepping High Down the Stretch 7 £1 : ; . SEE THEM AT THE OSHAWA FAIR Above is shown a picure of one of the spectacular Trotting races at the Canadian National Exhibition. This picture is of particular interest, since it includes some of the horses which will be seen in action in the horse races at the Oshawa Fair on Wednesday and Thursday of next week. co, Washington, and Pesco, to Spo- kane, Wash, Approximately 2,000 miles of air- ways under construction are nearing completion, oic of which is inter- national, These established routes will soon extend from New York City to Montreal, Canada; Cleveland to Albany, New York; Kalamazoo, Mi- chigan, to Detroit, Bay City, Mich, to Atlanta, Ga.; Chicago to Milwau- kee, and Green Bay; St. Louis, to Evansville, I1l.; Salt Lake City, Utah to. Pesco; San Francisco to Secattlg; St. Louis to Columbus, Ohio, and from Los Angeles to Albuquerque, New Mexico, The commerce Department reports that already this year more than 8,- 000,000 miles have been flown by com mercial aviators, compared with the total of about 9,900,000 for the whole of 1928, and about 5,500,000 in 1927. On August 1, the Department rc- FAIR VISITORS -- are Invited to visit The Home of "TOD'S During Their Visit to the Fair Manufacturers of Genuine "BUTTERNUT BREAD" - "Rich as Butter - Sweet as a Nut" as oT porter, there were 8,569 licensed pi- lots in the United States, 70 of them being women. Of the women, 7 held transport licenses, the highest grant- ed by the Commerce Department, while 11 held limited commercial li- censes. The latest information at the department shows 12224 privately owned and commercial aeroplanes in use in the United States. FORESEES GIANT COMBINE INRECENT GROUPING SCHENE Wall Street Observers See Change Coming With- in Five Years New York, N.Y., Sept. 6--Bar- ring the enactment of restrictive legislation, Wall Street sees in the recent grouping of public utility companies a giant 'combine. It foresees one company eventually controlling all the leading power and light producers from Bangor, Me., to Pensacola, Fla. within 150 miles of the Atlantic seaboard. Many observers feel that this de- velopment is likely within the next five years. While it is still too early to forecast how this grouping will be arranged, it 1s considered likely that either the United cor- poration or the American Super- power corporation will form the nucleus of this combine. Bankers and others engaged in these consolidations decline to dis- cuss their plans beyond the imme- diate future, probably because pre- mature publication of their ulti- mate aim would increase their dif- ficulties in trying to bring it about. The current market situation in the public utility industry has bve- come so complicated that most sta- tisticians frankly confess their in- ability, with the. limited informa- tion available, to arrive at any de- finite conclusion regarding the val- ue of various stocks involved, Holding companies own so many stocks of other companies, which in turn are owners of so many other companies, that trying to figure values is almost an impossible task. Fears are felt in some quarters that the recent broad trend toward mergers might arouse congression- al opposition and lead to another era of so-called trust busting. Spon- sors of public utility consolidations are attempting to forestall such ac- tion by reducing rates through op- erating economies effected through consolidations, removing the "price fixing' objections which led to the enactment of the Sherman anti- trust law. NAVY CRUISERS T0 BE SOLD BY AUCTION United States | bes No Use For Absolete War Vessels Washington, D. C, Sept. 6.--Thir- ten obsolete navy cruisers, all of which are about a quarter of a cen- tury old, are soon to be placed on the auction clock. Secretary Adams has approved the recommendations of the naval board of inspection and survey that six of the cruisers which have heen out of commission some time he offered for sale for junk or any other purpose. * | Earlier in the year, the: Navy De- partment authorized the sale of the old cruisers Salem. Albany and New Orleans. They were ships which at one time during the early part of the twentieth century were the pride of the American fleet. Of the thirteen to be sold the York, now idle in the Philadelphia Navy Yard, is the young est. It was commissioned in 1908 as the Chester, while Theodore Roose- velt was president. The others to be sold are the Birmingham and St. Louis, also at the Philadelphia yard; the Chattanooga and the Des Moines at the Portsmouth, New Hampshire Navy Yard, and the Charleston, at the Puget Sound Washington, Navy Yard. The navy also has out of commis- sion the old cruisers Charlotte, Fred- erick, Huntington, Huron, Missoula, and Pueblo, as well as the Olympia, which is considered a relic because she was Admiral Dewey's flagship in the Spanish-American War, and is expected to be preserved because of her historical interest. The Cleve- land, now at Mobile, Alabama, is also obsolete and is to be de-commissioned shortly, INVISIBLE LIGHT MORE POWERFUL THAN MICROSCOPE Infrared Rays Brings to Light the Tiniest Living Objects Boston, Mass, Sept. 6.--Infra-red rays, the "invisible light" with which the camera peers far into impene- tarble fog, now brings to view tiny, living objects that hitherto escaped detection by the microscope. Use of these rays in medical photography was described to the thirteenth In- ternational Physiological Congress at Harvard Medical School by Ivan Bertrand and L. Justin-Besancon of Paris. Infra-red is a longer wave length than red, the most lengthy visible ray. It is an intervening step between light and heat. The Frenchmen exclude all visible light from the photographic plate which is specially sensitized to the infra-red emanations, They said that because of the extra length these rays penctrate into and reveal some of the outer portions of living cells. They described photography in a kidney study that revealed organ- isms "entirely missing in the micro- scopic examinations by the eye." Boys whose playmates tease them as being "crazy" when their legs fail to jerk at a blow. on the reflex at the knee may some day know the scien- tific reason for the , failure, Prof. Genichi Kato of Keio University, Tokyo, an authority on nerves, re- ported a theory to explain why a strong nerve impulse sometimes re- sults in a weak reaction in a muscle, while a weak stimulus gives a strong muscular response. he theory is that the successive signals of the strong impulse tend to overrun and blot out each gther, The scientific value of the theory concerns the unreachable central nervous system which physiologists are attempting to analyze, I nan interview Prof. Kato said the action of the impulse might be understood by a layman by refer- ence to the knee jerk. SHEEP RANCHING EX. PANDING The sheep industry from a ranch- ing point of view shows signs of de- velopment: in Western Canada, par- ticularly in British Columbia, states the Department of Agriculture, Last fall upwards of 10,000 head of ewe stock was bought in Alberta and shipped to the interior points of Bri- tish Columbia. In 1928 the demand for range ewes exceeded the supply and the demand promises to be equal- lv as good this yeas, oo... oo COMPASS NEEDLE CHANGES DIRECTION At Churchill on Hudson bay, the magnetic compass needle pointed 24 degrees west of north in 1700, one de- gree west in 1800 and 10 degrees east mn 1900. In other words, during two centuries the needle changed its di- rection by 34 degrees. EXTEND QUARANTINED AREA In continuing its efforts towards the control and eradication of the corn borer in Canada, the Dominion De- partment of 'Agriculture has extended the quarantined area to include the whole of the province of Quebec, and all of Ontario with the exception of the district of Thunder Bay, Patricia, Kenora, and Rainy River, "Bigger and Better Than Ever} is Motto of Oshawa Fair 35 King St. East MOST enjoyable Evening Dinner ing room each day. 60 to 85 cents. You will RESTAURANT Moderately priced from Oshawa. course luncheon and is presented in our din- Enjoy it! CAPE BRETON IS PROSPEROUS AS INDUSTRY'S REVEAL Steel Mills Running at Cap- acity -- Miners Work Daily Sydney, N.S., Sept. 6.--With steel mills running at capacity and min- ers in the various collieries, except- ing Sydney Mines, working every day, the island of Cape Breton this summer is experiencing an indus- trial revival unexceeded in the past ten years, while the present season in the steel plant is the best since five years ago. Prosperity is gen- eral, and the so-called "Red talk" of other years has become a thing of the past. Previous summers meant dull, times for the local steel mills, but for the past three months they have worked practically at capacity and will probably continue at this rate during the remainder of the sea as a result of rail orders from New- foundland and the Canadian Nation al Railways. Building is reviving in Glace Ba; and Sydney, permits having estab- lished a new record here this yea Shipping of coal up the St. La rence increases each week. Water. front workers are employed twenty- four hours a day loading stcamers and schooners. During a recent week, the entire output from the mines for that period was shipped from the piers, More than forty steamers called here for coal during one week. Immense banks of coal seen at the beginning of the local bank has been removed. The sale of the Broughton collier- ies has aroused optimism in that dis- trict. According to lunconfirmed reports, a huge development will be made there in the near future. VARIATION OF COMPASS In crossing Canada the direction of the compass needle varies all the wav from 42 degrees west of north in Hudson strait, through 30 degrees west in Nova Scotia, to 30 degrees east of north in southern British Co- lumbia and 45 degrees cast in the Yukon. There are even localities in som¢ of the northern islands where it points due south. Telephone 2520 Now Is The Time ! * Today: before an- other leaf fall from the trees o the rugs, shades ions cleaned. In the us to prove it. To The Fair Visitors While at the Oshawa Fair you are cordially invited to pay a visit to the home of the Oshawa Laundry. "The Home of Service to the House". calendar -- have your clothing, drapes, and cush- thoroughly the. hands of our ex- pert cleaners, arm- ed with the best modern equipment stubbornest stain is bound to give way. Allow 8 r Oshawa Laundry and Dry Cleaning Co., Ltd. Oshawa ;