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' THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1929 REPAIR WORK ON CARIES IS STOW Only One of Ten Lines Broken By Earthquake : Is Restored Hplifax, N8, Dee, 19, =~ Repair worn oh the trans-Atlantic cables snpppad by the sarthqune ihe! shook ihe ocean floor from New York te ewloundiand in November, is pro. | cqeding slowly because of heavy seas, ording to reports reaching here, Of the ten broken lines of communi cation, only one--that of the French Telegraph Cable Company between + Cape Cod and Drest==had been re- stored saty Ip the second week of gember, leven lines were not affected by the quake, Executives of the varlous companies sald they were able to ha lo, the balk of thelr Qusingte ali oud delay, but the Radio Corpora: tion of America recently reported the flow of wireless messages to the other side of the Atlantic to be fifty per gent above yormal, No estimate of the cable expense entailed hy the quake has been glven out, but it was learned that each res pair ship Has a dally maintenance cost of more than $2,000, able steamers sent out to mend thrge Western Unlon cables were un« able to grapple for loese ends owing to severe storms and had to lay to, The Commercial Cable Company res orted similar difficulties with Its hree broken lines, The Western Unlon cable steamers Lord Kelvin, John Kay and 'wens Field, and the I"refeh repalr ship Edouard Jeramee have been out for severn] weeks, The All Amerlea, of the All Amerlea Cable Company, sailed from Halifax on December 9, The Cambria was due to sall when she completed loading some 150 miles of cable rushed from Kngland, Dullt for work In southern waters the Cambria was found rather cool up here by ity colored crew, apd there was talk of sending them back to Bermuda and pleking up another crew at Halifax, The numerous esble breaks In the North Atlante lends Interest' to the routine pursued In locating and re- palring them, A cable steamer progeeds to the probable position of the break as oeated by experts, The particular kind of grappling Iron used to locate und bring the eable to the surface is determined by soundings and chartings made of the ocean floor at the time the cable was laid, The rappler most generally employed 1s the Lueas type, whose two rons seize a broken end of the cable and slide it into a groover at the shank, A dynomometer indicates the strain, and the crow then haul the cable to the surface, The end in attached to a buoy, tanned with a fox and doe trically lighted for easy location day or night, Then begins the process of Joeating the other end, : Ones the ends of the sablu, are ralsed and buoyed it i» comparatively easy for the electricians to splice in the new eable, Sometimes, howaver, several breaks oceur in the same gable, and In that case It ls much more difficult to repair the separate reaks, The thickness of the eable varies with the floor of the ocean, Inshore, where icebergs drift or ships anchor, the Hiande kre three he os thick while in deep sections of the ocean they taper down to an inch or less, The cable ships are floating labors atores with competent staffs of elec: triclans and trained men whe have every modern convenience to locate promptly the various breaks and res pale them as quickly as possible, cable RADIOLA 'COMPLETE Balance «= Baty Terms -- Ontario Motor Sales PS " WASHINGTON. K EFFECTS OF THOSE WITHOUT HFIRS EE LL Room Known As 'Bureau Of Dead Men's Shoes" Washington==Ths "personal effects room," more popularly known as the "buresy of dead men's shoes," iy # Place used to store the strictly pers sonal properties of persons under government protection who have died without legal heirs or whose heirs cannot be found, In most sases they were {Mar ean soldiers and sail ws who dled In foreign lands or on the high seas, But the collection alsa ne cludes the property or soldiers who dled In soldiers' homes, and of Ger man sples and others, This "buresy," the work of which consists of examining, marking, label ing, entaloging, and Bling gbjucts re ceived, Is if ead in the olf Pension bullding, At the present time more than # dozen steel cases are used for the Ming, and they are crammed to the limit with sealed packages, Once the Ming Is complate, the "burean" beglng Its efforts to find the helrs In every case everthing possible ls done to find some relatives=a parent, bro. ther, sister, wife or child, A single glance Into any many packages proves how great thelr. value Would be to loved ones, If they could only be reached, Hut intrinsically they have small valye, Yet employees comb the whole globe In thelr efforts to find the helrs, no matter how trivial the value of the property In question, hether It is a faded love letter, n lock of halr, 8 pleture, or what not, Uncle Sam makes the same efforts, Our consuls In foreign countries han» dle the affairs and personal effects of those persons who die abroad, If the herls eannot be found the props erty Is sent to the "bureau of dead men's shoes" and stored while furs ther effort 1s made to fipd them Nearly all the packages in the "bu reay" contain rings and watches and medals, There are alse many other relies, such as lockets, photographs, locks of halr, lotter from sweethearts, ete, And many of those whose ef fects go to the bureau leave real es tate, Bank notes, bonds, ete, Dut these ara always converted into dol lars and deposited in the treasury in the name of the legal helr or heirs, CHILD MANNEQUINS IN DE. ANAND Following the introduction in Lon- don of matronly mannequins for dine playing gowns for older women have appeared girls of aly years to show off the beauties of ehidrens dresses Tots are being train t mannequin ih the course of the asting from aix to elght weeks, and each receives $5 for every parade she attends, A Ju venlle parade usually lasts about ff teen minutes, making the pay at the same scale as for adults, "Children take an Interest in thelr dresses at a very 'early age rowadays," sald a fashion expert, "When they reach the e of six they like to he fashionably ressed, and these exacting requires ments have led to the demand for child mannequing" UGH BUILDING IN HALIFAX, NS. Several Important Buildings To Be Erected Next Year Hall N.8, Dec, 19.«A year of elty- Hh at least as PORT an 1928, when constyuction exclusive of Federal contracts erossed the five I illion dollar mark, is in prospect for Talifax in 1930, Work on the new terminal unit at Greenbank, a gove ernment undertaking, will put the city wit in striking distance of cons struction costing $10,000,000 for the r, YR idings bout to go up, or likel to be sta be eo end of po St, §, are the Capito! Thidtre and office a In NERNEY ~ TTT \N N & ; Ray A CANADIAN GENERAL ELECTRIC PRODUCT ow BOWRA ELECTRIC SHOP 70 Simcoe Street North, Oshawa Phone 1078 | buttding, the new Halifax Infirmary, the Bank of Nova Beotls, and the Canadian General Klectrie's new headquarters, A fourth unit to the Faton bullding wil swlso go uw In prospect are a new YW.CA and a Nurse's Home at the Chile dren's Hospital, Plans for both these buildings ok been completed and sites secured, That the office building In eonnee tion with the new theatres will be six stories Ingh instead of four aw orig inally Intended 1s now a probability, The Canadinn General Elegtric will start construction of thelr four storey headquarters within a short time, on he site of the Old Prince George {otel destroyed by fire two years WE, The Infirmary, considerably larger taht the present home of the Sister of Charity on Barrington Street, will be erected on Queen Street near Dundonuld, Plans have been coms plated, The three storey MeCurdy building on Hollls Street wil¥ be torn down to make way for the new Bank of Nova Beotls, plans for which have not vet been made publie, CLOSE WATCH KEPT FOR STOWAWAYS Constant Vigil Necesshry To Prevent Influx of Orientals London, Dee, 19Constant war ngningt stowaways by aliens officurs ut the ports, Is found to be necessary to prevent undesirable developments of the evlor problem in this sountry, Arabs, Indians, Suvalls, Chines, and others are Induced to attempt clandestine entry inte Britain hy stories that excite thelr Kastern Ime aglnations told them by compatriots who have visited these . shores as members of the crews of British ships, or unable to secure passports they seek by similar means to Joly relatives wlready domiciled here To Join a Brother Colored seamen, too, sometimles try to remain here, and - may be seen journgging on the 'rallways between the ports Generally they are on the way to "a brother wha Is on a ship While the seamen are not permitted te come ashore without proofs of re pistration, the aliens officials know there are legal landings from time to time, In ny of the greatest vigl lance to prevent this, and the prac ties Is & constant source of anxiety AP and O, Liners' official told the reporter that many aliens come an stowaways, If they have not thelr passports no shipmaster would en wage them, because otherwise he would be responsible, and gould not land them even when he pid off Mis crew, Noither will the Arab boarding master house them, because they are of no economle value to him, have known as many as stowaways In this borough st one time," sald the oMelal, "but they are a dwindling number, + We have to be constantly on the alert, We visit the Arab boarding houses every day, very often at the fours of two or three in the morning, That Is how and wher we find them" A prominent official of the shipping Federation at Cardiff told a reporter that the immigration officers are keen men, fully alive to the responsibility of their work, "If any man should get away by subterfuge," he sald, "steps are im mediately taken to trace him, and "ij is very seldom that he succeeds In evading the inquiries, "In isolated cases a man who has Iven up, the sen In order to keep a boarding" house has parted with his identity papers, dischurges, ete, for » consideration, but anybody whe bought them would find it very difti cult to make use of them" wm---- BURRARD BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION TO Vancouver May Build Strue- ture Across Inlet At Cost of $2,000,000 Vancouver, Doo 1%"Construction of Burrard bridge, putting in circus lation n wages in three years, will relieve a very serious wn employment situation, lated Ad, Ane a Maginnis, in urg ne ratepayers 0 vote for Burrard bridge bylaw on Wednesday, "The bullding industry has receive grave setback during the last six o seven weeks," sald Ald, Maginnis "Most. of the contractars in hous and apartment building trades have stopped work altogether, even the ew who are continuing work have discharged most of their men, I the men that are' engaged in thoac trades are now out of wok, he best cure for this situation i to pass the Burrard bridge bylaw on Wednesday, "In addition to $2,000,000 in wages spent on the new bridge, ity construc tion will start an dntensive building rogram that will run into many mil ons, Burrard street will become another retail sections of the firgt aghtude, "Much of the property on this street 1a held by strong business cons corns or wealthy mdividuals, These. interests who paid big prices for their property will be forced to construct revenue Jroduing bulldings, "Thia downtown building will also stimulate building of houses and apartments which in turn w ive work for mills; sash and door actories and gravel pity, "In my opinion this building pros gram wight very easily amount to as much as $S0.000.000 or more during the next three or four years, i Ff CON . TO "So you were upta Montreal last ram week, oh i! Velie Nat's what 1 hear "=Lide yy 4 MAKE EMPLOYMENT must be realized that $0 per cont ol _ REPORT OF TARIFF BOARD 15 AWAITED Manchester Cotton Men Ex- pect Ruling on Prefer- London, Dee, 19.The Manchester Chamber of Commerce ls anxiously AR Aa Be ---- ence Regulations awalting the report of the Canadian Tariff Advisory Board on the result of Its Investigation with regard to Canadian preference regulations as they may affect Dritleh cotton goods, The chamber, In Its own wordy: 'In continuing its close watch upon the situation," Representatives of the British cot fon manufacturers rqcent! appenre hafore the Canadian Yarllt Advisory Board to argue against present regi: lutions affecting the importation of thelr product Into | Mv under the preferential tariff, "Ihe exporter to PAGE ELEVEN benefit by the preferential tariff must show that 50 per cent, of Umpire Ia bor and materials entered Into the product, In the budget of 1928 notice was wlven that the British content re- quirement would be raised from 26 to ) per cent, Since that time numer. ous representations have been made by British manufacturers against the change, 'I'he contention of the cotton many fucturers In that In order to preserve a steady flow of suitable raw cotton Into the mills, it Is necessary to purs chase It In the Uulted States, fre- quently at so high » figure that it will not be possible for them to fulfil) the requirement, Man (rushing into editor's oes) Seg here, you've {ublished an ane nouncement of my death, You must fix It up, Pditor---Well, we never contradict mnything we've published, but T'll tell you whit I'll do, I'll put you In the birth column to-morrow and glve you a fresh start, Shee"1 ses the scientists declare that the body of a man Is worth Just 97 cents in sults, line, fron, ete" Hew"I'hat Is cheap, | thought 9% cents was the general limit of bar waning She=""Yes, but this Is not a bar gnin, It's a dead glve away." Fussy Lady (whe has been a long time In selecting her purchase) But I don't think this is vit It looks to me like mutton, Exusparated Butcher ~1t vas lamb when 1 first showed it to you, madam, «Stratford Beacon Herald, pr ' »' WH, ) by - " I As 1 AM //, W oo NEW CROP CHOICE MIXED NUTS ALMONDS, FILBERTS, WALNUTS, BRAZIL DO ore Quality Counts H| 777 4 I" i A N fT x » [Loc vi Lag " TORE / IN EVERY HOME . . .. reigns the spirit of Good Cheer, Gayoly and Joy! Ciood things to eal and drink. Truly, was there ever such a happy Christmas? Shopping at Duminion Stores brings about this glad yet economical resuld, Everything that creates the successful Christmas Dinner will be found on our phelves--=the finest quality at the most reasonable price, 8 Per Ib. 25¢ LARGE WASHED Brazils THIN SHELL Walnuts NEW SICILY Filberts Ib Walnuts SOFT SHELL Almondsin. 27 e oy FRESH QUALITY Mincemeat 2 Ibs. 29. Horseradish Bottle 15¢ OAKVILLE Crabapple Jelly 21e Jello 4 Pkgs. 25¢ CRACKERS We have a large assortment of these in bol RT, 39¢ 75¢ 89¢ Ib. 21. CALIFORNIA BUDDED Ib. 35¢ QUALITY PRODUCTS FROM OUR OWN BAKERY 2c The bang! OLD ENGLISH STYLE, . 23 CAKE CHRISTMAS CAKE FINEAT \ SEO Br re See Baking PURE LARD FOR BETTER PAKING CRISCO BAKING FOWDER 1+1b, Tin 32crvomoR Je COOKS! FRIEND FINEST SMYRNA Table Figs , FRENCH GLACE Cherries HMARASCHINO Cherries 1<1b. Pkt. 1 Qc 3-1b. Pall §%7¢ CHRISTMAS 4" PUDDINGS IN EARTUENWARR FRUIT ga BAY THR POUND PLAIN OR "LU. ICED Ak, IN FATALE GIFT 80X Sockeye Salmon 1b. Tin 47¢ Sweet Gherkins 8:81: 55¢ H.P. Sauce Requirements A dell Choco 11b.24¢c | 2% 3 Ibs. J2¢ 141d. Tin PPROX, «LB. PKG, ib. 43¢ nOTTLE 27 DECORATED Bottle 25¢ SWEETHEART CHESTS nuts, eto, FAMILY BIER 11h, Box BASSETT'S IMPORTED Licorice Allsorts ng of Christmas Crackers, DRIED FRUITS RAISINS-- TROMPSON Seedless 2 Seeded gk: 17e FANCY MALAGA Clusters LD, Yor 29¢ 1-LB, PKG. 356 FANCY RECLEANED 39. $1.05 1CED AND Citron Cut Mjxed KEENS' Mustard ghiful lates, ft, Assorted ard centres, «1b. Box 89. 39. 1b.25¢ \ FOR DECORATION Cake Candies Assorted Spices TASTY Knox Gelatine Olives Clubhouse 0%, 33¢ We have a large assort. ment of pure candles, Jelly Beans, Rock Candies, elo, At 19¢ 23¢ 25¢ Currants 1b. 18¢c PEEL Lemon& Orange 1b.23¢ 1b. 35¢ 1b, 25¢ 2.02. Tin 14e¢ Pkg, 22¢ PER POUND, TODHUNTER'S Chocolate Nibs ASST. CHOCOLATE BARS 3 for 14 1b. 39. Pkg. 10¢ To Qe Almond Icing . 29¢ Wishing You A Very Merry Xmas