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SHALL PERCENTAGE QUALIFY AS PILOTS) Not yet Found Infallible Test Previous to Actual Flying Washington, D. C, Sept. 20~The United States has become air-minded but government authorities have dis- covered that only a small percentage of aviation enthusiasts can be made successful pilots, The aeronautics division of the Commerce Department, which is in charge of civil aviation, has been re- ceiving in the last few weeks a huge number of applications for student flyers' permits--approximately 600 a week. The number of applications in the first half of this year was place by Clarence M. Young, recently ap- pointed assistant secretary for aero- nautjcs, at 14, 850, compared with 10,697 in the preceding six months. But this evidence of a desire by Americans to "take to the air" has not proved so productive of success. ful pilots, officials said, as only 1 per cent of the student flyers qualify as pilots capable of handling commer- cial aeroplanes. A similar situation exists in the army and navy. In the army only 25 per cent of the stid- ents qualified last iyear and in the navy a slightly .. higher proportion. Both services, however, expect a lar- ger percentage of successful pilots to result from training hereafter, Despite 4 careful physical examina- tion, study of the 'prospective stud- ent flyer's family background and in- herited tendencies and psychological tests, neither the commerce depart- ment nor the two military servics have found an infallible test of flying ability prior to actual tests in the air. "The inherent aptitude of flying only can be learned by , actual flights," said one of the commerce aeronautics officials. Other factors, however, keep down the percentage of successful pilots, the commerce authorities asserted. A major factor of (discouragement to the prospective flyer is the high cost of a piloting course of instruction, and another .is that students often lose theig desire to fly, or their nerve, after air expgrience, A third obstacle to the iricrease in. the number of pi- lots is becoming apparent in the ten- dency of many students to make one solo flight and then quit, satisfied with. that experience. In the army and navy, the chief reason for failure of student flyers is due to actual in- ability to pilot aeroplanes. The /en- trants in the service flying schools generally have every physical qual- ification' bist during their training even those best qualified physically hay disclose lack of the aptitude to y. Major Young has predicted that "aircraft operations this yearp if they continue at fhe pace set in the first six. months, will bé more than the previous three years combined." The «commerce department officials arc igoncerned over a possible shortage of Bilots, and are urging flyers to spe- 'cialize int single fields of commercial aviation, They point out that an air mail pilot has to push his plane at 'high speed through bad weather and night, whereas the passenger plane flyer has, to be on the alert not to Arighten his passedgers and to avoid unnecessary hazards to their safety. CAR PRODUCTION LOWER IN AUGUST Total "for Year, However, Grehter Than Any Pre- vious Record Ottawa, Sept. 20.--According to a statement issued by the Domin- jon Bureau of Statistics, the pro- duction of automobiles in Canada during August was 14,215 cars. "This output was the lowest report- ed for any month of the year to date, being 18 per cent under the total 'of 17,461 cars of the previ. ous month, and less than one-half 'the output of 31,246 cars in Au- gust. of last year, Compared. with the figures for Was In Bed All Summer 1 have to work in the store and do my own housework, too, and 1 #9¢ nervous and run-down and wasin bed nearly all summer, The least noise would make me nervous, I was told © take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege table Compound and I have taken seven bottles. It has made me strong: ez.and put mare color into my face, I am looking after my store and bousework and my four children and I al getting along nicely now." ==Mn. J. Malin, R. &. No. s, Barton St. East Hamilton, Ontario, Cunada, th, the aais that the de all types of the next preceding for August show: cline was common cars 'made, With 'exception of 's slight increase taxicabs or busses to 22 from 20. bi Production for the eight months ending August of this: year amoun- ted to 220,036 cars. is was the highest output re for any eight-month period, and exceeded by 21 per 'cent the total of 181, 459 cars produced during the cor- responding period of a year ago. This year's output included 134, 271 closed passenger cars, 29,377 open passenger cars, 48,907 chas- sis, 7,366 trucks, and 115 taxicabs or busses, , Of the August total, 7,630 cars were made for sale in Canada, and the balance of 6,684 were intended for export. The apparent consum- tion of automobiles in Canada dur- ing the month, as determinea: by adding the 7,630 cars de for sale in Canada to the 2,411 cars d | imported, amounted to 9,941 cars. For the year to date the apparent consumption, thus computed total- led 190,151 cars. Customs' yec- ords show that 2,411 cars were imported into Canada, 'and 7,629 exported during August, to ke a total of 38,5672 cars imported 5 and 74,898 cars exported dunng the first eight months of this year. A PREMIER'S : START IN LIFE ------------ / Toronto, Ont,, Sept. 20.--Unded the caption:--*A Premier's : Star{ in Life." the Toronto Globe says, "Little wonder Hon, J. T, M Ap-{ derson has attained to the Prem- fership of Saskatchewan, He once was St, Joseph's Island corr "THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1929 TODAY'S LIST OF CONSTABLE HURT Toronto, . Sept, * 20.--~Motorcycle Constable Willlam Jarman (693) of. No, b Police Division was in- jured last night and his motorcy~ cle damaged when a hit-and-run motorist crashed into the machine 'Avenue Road and Foxbar Road, p n was found not to have been seriously injured and was taken to his home. Patrol Sergeant Seaton narrowly escaped' being struck down by tne same car as it swung around tne rate of speed. The patrol ser- geant managed to get the license number of the car and police are endeavoring to locate the motor- ist. HIT-AND-RUN DRIVER Guelph; Sept. . 20.--~A ! chase througr Guelph"s business streets in which Constable Halbert used a commandeered car, resulted in the arrest of Karklan Salin of Rock- wood, alleged hit and rum motor- ist. He is held on a charge of criminal negligence as the result of an: accident on St. George's square. Salin is accused of driving away after his auto struck down Gilbert Price, 46 Foster avenue, as he was crossing Wyndham street, and inflicting injuries which re- quired medical attention. On his appearance in court yesterday Sal- in wéds remanded in custody ior a . week. ' Toft corner of Foxbar Road at a 'high |' 8 oS, Sept. [20.1 the J » . 120. ~In roe "of his wite AUTO ACCIDENTS 1 e and child, were powerless to aid him, Maurice Gaum, New Waterford tailor, bled to death from a glass- severed. jugular yein when his car the Sydney-New Waterford highway and overturned against fence yesterday, 4 Gaum got clear of the wreck and managed to walk to a nearby house but collapsed at the door- step. A doctor who hastenea out from New Waterford was unable to save his life," Mrs, Gaum and the child were uninjured and, ex- cept for the smashed windows, the car was not very badly damaged. REAL HELP FOR BLIND | -- Cape Town, South' Africa, Sept. 30, ~There is a manufacturer in this city who is doing more for the welfare of the blind than many a philanthropist. He is trying to find processes in his factory which blind girls are capable of doing. As an experiment, he has employed a blind girl to button up the shirts after the buttons have been sewn. on, and to leave them ready for the next process. Another blind girl is finding 'out whéther it will be pos- sible: for her: to Jay out the. shirts for pressing. : In modern factories, where each process is separate, it is possible to find many of the simpler processes which, with a little practice, come well within the power of the blind. Old-fashioned , love was 'mostly composed of imagination and 'moon- sine. Modern 'love has the same mixture diluted with gasoline, Jazz and cockfails,.~-Brandon Sun. - MINISTER BARRED FN COPY Simcoe, Sept. 20.--~Hon, John 8. Martin, who is now .convalesciug at his home in Port Dover after a summer long fliness, has notified the local Conservative executive that he will be unable to take any active part in the election cam- paign in the forthcoming provin- cial' contest, While he is able to be about the house and receive visi- tors, his physicians have forbidden him to do any work for some 'weeks yet. gi . The Liberals:have made no an- mouncement regarding their inten- tions and no suggestions have been 'made. as to possible candidates, 'From more than one source the hope. has been expressed that the 'minister of agriculture will be given an acclamation. He has ren- dered valuable assistance to the progress of Norfolk county in an agricultural way, and it is felt. by many citizens of all shades pf poli- tical opinion that it would be a gracious act, in view of his ill- ness, to refrain from contesting the riding. WHEN IS A MAN DRUNK Sydney, Australia, Sept. 20.-- The old question, "When is a man drunk" came up at the central po- lice court here recently. when Gor: don Musgrave pleaded guilty to a charge of 'having drivén & car when under the influence lof Ii- uor. The aécused admitted his guilt despite the fact that Dy, Lea- ver, a reputable physician, gave evidence to the effect that Mus- grave was not ! ist the time of his arrest, » | The doctors evidénce [wih based on four tests which he ; the accused had passed rily. These were as follows: *Can you stand up straight and thread a needle with black cotton without fumbling or hesitation? 'Can you put the point of a pin in a pin- hole 'in white paper without fumb+ ling or prodding all round the hole? Can yon stand four paces from a window, be blindfolded and walk straight: to the window? Cgn you do a sum in addition cofreétly in a crowded nolsy room?" If you can do sll these things, you are not, in the opinion of Dr. Leaver too drunk to drive a motor car, "i The magistrate accepted the plea of guilty and fined the accused $100 with alternative of speding two months in jail, The magistrate ordered Musgrave's license sus- pended until its expiration on Nov. ember 28 and disqualified him from holding a license to drive a car for three years thereafter, . i 5% PAGE ELEVEN DISCOVERIES IN CHINA REVEAL MISSING LINK ful Work and Study Peiping, China, Sept. 20~The P¢i- ping man, who with his human teeth and a monkey jaw roamed the earth about 1,000,000 years ago, is the near- t thing to the missi link which i ntist have yet examined, paleon+ tologists here declare, a A cave about 25 miles from Peiping bit by bit has been yielding the story of this individual, It has required nine years of study, excavations and careful calibration of the various finds to put together the reconstruction' of today, : The story begins with. the finding of a tooth in. 1920 by Dr. A. Zdansky, a Russian. Its latest chapter is an- other tooth, recent) ug up, the third to be found, Along with these teeth and other finds, there are ex- The head of the New York City schools has ordered a reduction in home work, That man, we think, is another Lincoln~Ottawa Journal, Next thing we know some no- toriety seeker will be appearing on the street in an old-fashioned night- shirt. --Tampa Tribune, ted evidences that their human or semi-human owner was ccntem- porary of saber-toothed tigers and primitive hyenas. The teeth appear to have revealed more of the scien- tific story thai any otl.er objects. Dr, A, W. Grabau, formerly of Columbia University, now professor of paleon- tology here and chief paleontologist of the Chinese Geological _survey, feels confident that in the discovery aebileness is every indicafion that 'shaw d in China 1,000 , that the tooth; of 't i s at ledst a missing i man, The second tooth was ound by Dr. Bohlin, a: young ¥ Swedish a. and kL and named by Dr. Davidso Black, an American of the Peiping Union Me- dical college, a Rockefeller, Foundy- tion institution. ' anita Dr. Black places, the Peiping man on a stage of developmént between the modern human and # anthropoid apes. The time estimate of 1,000,000 years is based on the recent advances in geology, whereby the earth's age and that of its living creatures, if calculated at far higher figures n it was a few ycars ago, nl On this time clock, the Peiping man antedates: Neanderthal man, bu is about contemporaneous with the Heidelberg man of Europe. Pp -------- Swordfish Pierces Boat' Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, Cal, Sept, 20~The beak of a big sword fish, piercing the planking of the fishing launch Chappie, remained as evidence of a furious battle between the sea creature and a fishegman, ending in victory for the latter. The battle started when the fisher- man, W. G. Peterson, of Los An- geles, hooked the marlin swordfish with a line. Infuriated, the animal lunged at the launch, rammed. hie spear through the gunwale and un through the deck. The fish gave a lunge which nearly overturned th. launch and which broke his sword- like nose off short, Peterson 'gaffed the fish with the aid of the launch captain, It weighed 326 pounds, smeeni------ Another reason the girls are all going in for tan is so the nicotine on their fingess won't show.=Life. dent for the Sault Daily Star, and as Editor Curran remarks, that ia sufficinet to start any young man, on the way to fame--*bound to be Premier, or something else impor- tant," But Mr. Anderson, the young school teacher of St. Joseph's Is- land, was not as the average coun try correspondent. He christened a community ---called it Harmony --and then added to his sheaf of news everything that happened in the little village of his own nam« ing. He was also a circulation pro- moter, and the Sault Star editor says young Anderson introduced him to everybody on the fsland-- at least every potential subscriber --The pace--on bicycles -- way fast, and the editor admits that "one night at Sea Gull we fell over the handlebars trying to keep up, and somewhere off in the dark the future Premier laughed." So it is evident that Saskatchewan has somethng original in the way of Premiers, He may be there a long time but if he isn't Editor Curran of the Sault Star, says candles are burning in all the windows on St. Joseph's Island in. case the Hon, J, T, M. Anderson ever should need his old job again." / TWO TORONTO MEN MISSING IN ARCTIC Col. McAlpine and Richard Pearce in Party of Five Reported Lost "Toronto, Sept. 20.--Overdue at Fort Norman, Alberta, on a long flight. from Coronation Gulf, a par- ty of five men prominent. in north- ern aerial navigation and mining exploration, including one well- known Toronto resident, last night were reported missing in the bleak Canadian Arctic. Those missing are reported in private advices as: , RICHARD PEARCE, editor of the Northern Miner of Cobalt, and brother of Norman Pearce of' To- ronto. COL. C. D. H, MCALPINE, War- ren road, Toronto, president of Dominion: Explorers, Ltd. CAPT, 8. E. McMILLAN, crack Dominion Explorers' pilot, flying a big Fairchild Wasp plane. COL, C. A, THOMPSON; West- tern Canada Airways, flying a Fok- ker super-universal. ; ALEX, MILNE, ' Dominion Ex- plorers mechanic, This list of those on board the two planes was received here last evening by Norman Pearce. Canadian Press advices from The Pas, Man, however, did not list Richard Pearce or Milne, but gave the names of A, Broadway, pilot ,and Alex. Reading, geologist, vr being on the planes in their stead. INSTITUTE MEETING WELL ATTENDED Brougham Ladies Gather At |, The Home of Mrs. Mil- ton Burk Brougham, Ont, Sept. 18.~The September meeting of the Women's Institute met at the . home of Mrs. Milton Burk on Tuesday afternoon. As the members of the institute re gard Mrs. Burk's meeting as a special occasion, there was a splendid attend- ance. The program for the after- noon was a talk' by Mrs. Brown on "The Women of the Bible," followed by community singing. Mrs, Beer followed with a very fine demonstra- tion of the wonderful dainties in sal- ads which can be prepared from our gardens. A very pleasing part of the afternoon's program was the arrang- ing of a surprise for the birthday of our Vice President, Mrs. R. D. Miller, who is a shut-in member at present. 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